George Eliot Quotes

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

George Eliot

Quotes to Explore

It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.

Kate Bernheimer
- Influence
- Writers
- Reader
We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

Gary Lineker
- Money
- Business
- Tree
'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'

Isaac Hanson Hanson
- Different
- Reason
- Almost
People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Lee Iacocca
- People
- God
- Success
I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'

Katharine Hepburn
- Long
- Woman
- Hopeless
within that ageing outer shell we remain very much the same as we did in our late teens and early twenties.

Mary Margaret ('Mollie') Kaye
- Age
- Self
- Twenties