George Eliot Quotes
Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.
George Eliot
Quotes to Explore
When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
Irvine Welsh
Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
Adam Peaty
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
Nadia Comaneci
Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear caused by explosive remnants of war.
Ban Ki-moon
Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
Ian Thorpe
You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
J. R. R. Tolkien
No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
Walter Salles
We are a country of artisans and a country of manufacturing. I think Japanese textile technology is the best in the world.
Tadashi Yanai
The coming-of-age story has sort of become a joke. It's something to capitalize on, and that is painful because when you are coming of age - when you are going through something like that - the genre is so meaningful.
Mae Whitman
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
Patrick Ness
The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
Jack Osbourne
