George Eliot Quotes

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

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• You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Independent
  • Movies

• Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • People
  • Different
  • Live

• I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Good
  • Think
  • Christian

• The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Best
  • Blonde
  • Common Sense

• Before my son was born, I use to tell people that I was looking forward to no longer being the star of my own movie; then Harry came along, and it was like, 'Whoa, I'm really not!'

  

  Jack Davenport
  • People
  • Movie
  • Star

• Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Real

• Opponents of legal birth control, including abortion, have tried for decades to play the race card, saying that legal abortion is racist. What they ignore is that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood in 1966.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Control
  • King
  • Ignore

• When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Writing
  • Doing
  • Try

• For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• Money is a kind of poetry.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Money
  • Kind
  • Poetry

• Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Peace
  • Only

• Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Purpose
  • Fact
  • Obscure

• This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Man
  • Moon
  • Destiny

• My mother and grandmother raised me. Queens raised me.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Grandmother

• I don't believe in an eye for an eye. I believe in two eyes for an eye.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Speak

• I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Good
  • Like
  • Steak

• Tobacco exports should be expanded aggressively because Americans are smoking less.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Because
  • Smoking
  • Tobacco

• If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes.

  

  Buddy Hackett
  • People
  • Cocky

• Some of the most provocative TV that I'm inspired by is in the U.K. You guys take it for granted, but in America, we can't do it.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • America
  • Inspired

• Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.

  

  Sarah Orne Jewett
  • Mother
  • Distance

• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

  

  George Eliot
  • Friends
  • Opportunity
  • Opinion