T. S. Eliot Quotes

It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

T. S. Eliot

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• I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

  

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• I can't pretend to be a teenager, but I feel like I never really stopped being a teenager.

  

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• There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

  

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• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  

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• You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

  

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• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

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• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

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• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

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• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

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• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

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• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

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• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

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• Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

  

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• I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.

  

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• I am a fiscal conservative.

  

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• No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

  

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• What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.

  

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• Public Schools too often fail because they are shielded from the very force that improves performance and sparks innovation in nearly every other human enterprise - competition.

  

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• Too late. Too late to retreat. Your heart is open. The book has got you. Your body is wide open. This rat of a book has invaded your privacy, worried its feeling into your entrails by every private passage.

  

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• I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

  

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• I can't work on something if I don't believe in it. I love music, and I am inspired to work harder and spend more energy. I feel lucky that I was born with this passion.

  

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• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind