George Eliot Quotes
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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Explosions are not comfortable.
Yevgeny Zamyatin -
When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
Patrice Leconte -
The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
Taylor Swift -
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
Quentin Tarantino -
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.
Edith Head
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An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
Aaron Neville -
The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
Warwick Davis -
Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.
Cameron Winklevoss -
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
Albert Einstein
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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.
Elie Wiesel -
I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
Patti Scialfa -
I think Hitchcock had a thing about hills: think of the house on the hill in 'Psycho.' Then, in 'Vertigo,' Scottie is forever traversing the city, going downhill all the time as he goes deeper and deeper into himself. It's as if Hitchcock is using San Francisco as a psychological map.
Allen Coulter -
A pessimist is a person who is always right but doesn't get any enjoyment out of it, while an optimist, is one who imagines that the future is uncertain. It is a duty to be an optimist, because if you imagine that the future is uncertain, then you mu
Victor Cherbuliez -
I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small
Nicki Minaj -
I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.
E. O. Wilson
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When I first went to New York, I didn't really go out to clubs. It was the height of Culture Club so I didn't really have a social life. It was only after I had been to New York a few times that I started going out.
Boy George Culture Club -
When I came to Philadelphia in the late '80s, it was going through a very difficult time.
Tamron Hall -
I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing.
George Eliot