George Eliot Quotes
I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.George Eliot
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As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.
Patricia Clarkson -
In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.
Wang Shi -
It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
Taylor Lautner -
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
Naguib Mahfouz -
My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
Manika
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Of course my life has changed because now everybody knows who Felix Baumgartner is.
Felix Baumgartner -
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.
Jim Capaldi -
Everything does go in a circle.
Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel -
I don't really have a style icon but I really admire the way people dress like Gaga, Rihanna and Gwen Stefani. It's good to be inspired by singers who write music and dress incredibly - rather than models and people in the fashion industry who dress immaculately anyway because it's their style.
Ellie Goulding -
The surface of the moon is like nothing here on Earth! It's totally lacking any evidence of life. It has lots of fine, talcum-powderlike dust mixed with a complete variety of pebbles, rocks, and boulders. Many pebbles, fewer rocks, and even fewer boulders naturally make up its surface. The dust is a very fine, overall dark gray. And with no air molecules to separate the dust, it clings together like cement.
Buzz Aldrin -
Fly Heisenberg Airlines – we don’t know where we are, but we’re making damned good time.
Pat Cadigan
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People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.
B. R. Hayden -
A fair trial would have been no trial at all.
Angela Davis -
I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.
Vance Gilbert -
In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.
Moyez G. Vassanji -
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
Simone Weil -
It is men who face the biggest problems in the future, adjusting to their new and complicated role.
Anna Ford
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Now it all seems so simple. Events intersect free of any logic of sequence; they cover space and time in an even, translucent layer. Memory re-creates them from the back, from the front, or sideways, but to them it makes no difference.
Andrzej Stasiuk -
I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.
George Eliot