George Eliot Quotes
Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons.George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
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You always have to avoid working for the sake of putting yourself out there.
Haley Joel Osment -
My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.
Taylor Wilson -
My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
Beau Willimon -
I had breast cancer. Yeah, I know it's scary.
Wanda Sykes -
I love writing. It makes me so happy.
Quiara Alegria Hudes -
The photo is a thing in itself. And that's what still photography is all about.
Garry Winogrand
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There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable
Benoit Mandelbrot -
It's possible to be completely enlightened... except with your family.
Chogyam Trungpa -
We did not catch it nearly as early as we should have,
John Britton -
It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Anything that we have to learn to do we learn by the actual doing of it; People become builders by building and instrumentalists by playing instruments. Similarily, we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Aristotle -
I agree with him 100 percent. Watching film everybody is making minor mistakes and I just think being half a step earlier, or being one step over the left or one step over to the right could change the whole outlook of the play as far as the other team getting an easy bucket or a wide open look.
Udonis Haslem
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Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee.
William Shakespeare -
I'm sure this Jesus will not do Either for Englishman or Jew.
William Blake -
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me.
Aaron Siskind -
The octave formed a circle and gave our noble earth its form.
Pythagoras -
In them days I just as soon died -- except for my harmonica. It was like a friend who didn't give a damn if I could see or not.
Saunders Teddell -
For a moment, I thought of the word happy and it was a word that just, well, it felt like it was visiting me. I knew it wouldn’t last for very long and I’d be sad again and then it would be worse because it’s one thing to be sad and it’s another thing to be sad once you’ve been happy. Being sad after you’ve been happy is the worst thing in the world.
Benjamin Alire Saenz