T. S. Eliot Quotes

Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

T. S. Eliot

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• In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Music
  • Business
  • Best

• It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Work
  • Important
  • Women

• The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Important
  • Woman
  • Clothes

• The ironic thing is I took Kole from a family name - we had a vote and they had a few names, but Kole won - and getting it spelled with a 'K' is a constant correction, too. I'll never not be Warren Blosjo; it's just my stage name.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Family
  • Name
  • Vote

• 'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Kids

• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Think
  • First

• There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Rights
  • Where
  • Limit

• Without hope we are lost.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Hope
  • Lost
  • Without

• Globalization means that business strategy and business ethics cannot be separated from each other.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Ethics
  • Strategy

• I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Me

• If ballots won't work, bullets will.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Work
  • Will
  • Bullets

• I have written stories since I was a child.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Child
  • Stories
  • Written

• I like football, but I think this is a very personal matter. I don't see any negatives for some Russian rich man to buy a football club.

  

  Viktor Vekselberg
  • Man
  • Football
  • Rich

• But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

  

  Ferdinand Lassalle
  • More
  • Felt
  • Once

• Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Imagination
  • Weird
  • WIld

• One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Life

• Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.

  

  Ken Kercheval

• I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman
  • Past
  • Design
  • Wall

• I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.

  

  John Schneider

• 'Dad, are we scared?' said Sunshine. 'No, honey. It's an adventure.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Dad
  • Adventure
  • Sunshine

• I get facials. I get a manicure and pedicure every week. I get my hair cut, and I oil myself down from head to toe. I got that from my brother. I was so impressed with how high maintenance he was. When he left the room, you could still smell him for an hour.

  

  Bernie Mac
  • High
  • Hair
  • Brother

• In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.

  

  John Taylor Gatto
  • Work
  • School
  • Home

• I didn't come out until 5 or 6 o'clock in the evening. Sleep all day, sleep and cook and eat, stay in the house. That sun is hot, anyway. It ain't right out there.

  

  David Edwards
  • House
  • Sleep
  • Sun

• Some one said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

  

  T. S. Eliot