George Eliot Quotes

Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

George Eliot

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• I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • You
  • Running
  • Feel

• My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • People
  • Mother
  • Education

• Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Book
  • Picture

• The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Life
  • Character
  • Dad

• Novels are longer than life.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Life
  • Novels
  • Longer

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• I love literature deeply. I view books as sacred things, and in writing my story, I'm going to do my best to honor the form that has played such a huge part in shaping who I am.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Best
  • Literature
  • Story

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Thought

• In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and devious men. Drama and action with emotional ramifications. Frocks. Kissing. Swords. An intense impression of history in the world-building.

  

  Tansy Rayner Roberts
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Food
  • Successful
  • Chinese

• Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Life
  • You
  • Quarterback

• Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Growth

• We believed the world didn't need another commoditized venture capital firm.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • World
  • Need
  • Venture

• The greatest power is often simple patience.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Power
  • Simple
  • Patience

• The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Party
  • Wish
  • Ideas

• We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

  

  Val Guest
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Real
  • Character

• I do still think there is a big disconnect between Republicans in Washington, D.C., and Republicans everywhere I go. When you start talking about, you know, foreign entanglements, they just don`t want any part of it.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Thinking
  • Bigs
  • Republican

• Jesus, give the wearyCalm and sweet repose.With Thy tend'rest blessingMay our eyelids close.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Rest
  • Jesus
  • Sweet

• From Public Radio International, there's 'PRI's The World', which is the States looking out at the rest of the globe. Elsewhere, the 'Global News Podcast' from the BBC World Service offers something similar.

  

  David Hepworth
  • World
  • Rest
  • Service

• The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.

  

  Bethany Mota
  • School
  • High
  • Rest

• Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.

  

  George Eliot
  • Rest