George Meredith Quotes

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

George Meredith

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• When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Team
  • Play
  • Church

• Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Want
  • Violence
  • Gift

• I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Writing
  • School

• Babies are smart. They can tell the difference between a responsive face and a blank face, wiped clean of emotion.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Smart
  • Emotion
  • Face

• The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Experience
  • Friends
  • Together

• I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Love
  • Theatre
  • Movies

• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
  • Like
  • Serious

• I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Done
  • Girl
  • Three

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Electricity
  • Table

• The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• I'm proud of 'Fifty Shades of Grey.' I don't need to distance myself from that. The more work I do, the more the general public sees the different things I can do. Do I think it opened doors? Yeah. More people know my name.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Progress
  • Path
  • Walking

• In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.

  

  Gary Cooper
  • Girl
  • Horse
  • Kiss

• Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Life
  • Great
  • Nothing

• My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Now
  • Opportunities
  • Inspire

• It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Good
  • Great
  • Me

• When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Future

• Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.

  

  Dave Barry

• I do wish I believed in the life eternal, for it makes me quite miserable to think man is merely a kind of machine endowed, unhappily for himself, with consciousness.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Wish

• When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.

  

  Big Sean
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• By laughing at me, the audience really laughs at themselves, and realizing they have done this gives them sort of a spiritual second wind for going back into the battles of life.

  

  Emmett Kelly
  • Life
  • Done
  • Spiritual

• Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

  

  George Meredith
  • Life
  • Soul