George Eliot Quotes

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

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• 'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Family
  • Kind
  • Guilty

• My quick beauty tip is always have a tinted gloss of some kind to give you some color even if you have no makeup on.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Color
  • Beauty
  • Makeup

• By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Best
  • Books
  • Worst

• I literally don't think about Oscar.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Literally
  • Oscar

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • True
  • Terrorism

• I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Power
  • Always
  • Never

• I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• Presence is more than just being there.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • More
  • Presence
  • Being There

• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Paint
  • Table
  • Uniform

• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Career
  • Beautiful
  • Best

• I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Work
  • Home
  • Society

• Until I was 16 or 17, I had heard practically nothing about the history that preceded 1945. Only when we were 17 were we confronted with a documentary film of the opening of the Belsen camp.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • History
  • Film
  • Opening

• I play golf - badly.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Play
  • Golf
  • Play Golf

• So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Up
  • Been
  • Come

• What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

  

  O. Henry
  • World
  • Together
  • Moving

• Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help…It makes them spoon-fed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Truth
  • Help

• He's so ugly. When you walked by him, your pants wrinkle. He made fly balls curve foul.

  

  Mickey Rivers
  • Made
  • Curves
  • Wrinkles

• The greatest players use anger as fuel. Michael Jordan played every night with something like road rage.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Night
  • Road
  • Anger

• Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.

  

  James Thurber
  • Men
  • Women

• If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Wisdom
  • Burning
  • Holy Places

• If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

  

  George Eliot
  • Men
  • Road
  • Little