George Eliot Quotes

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

George Eliot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 22, 1819 - December 22, 1880

Topics

IgnoranceBeginningThingsGetOur

I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.

Michael J. Fox

GoalsMeFindGoWillWay

To reap the benefits of GMO technology, the U.S. must ensure that decisions about our food system are made based on science, not innuendo.

Mike Pompeo

TechnologyScienceFoodDecisions

I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York.

Milos Forman

New YorkCityRealityBetterLooks

It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order.

Douglas Rushkoff

DownLostGoFirstSameNext

You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.

Christopher Moore

LifeArtBookYouKnowSometimes

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Clare Boothe Luce

BestMoneyWomanProtectionOwnHer

There's the cool factor, right? You see your face on a sign or your name on something, like, 'Ahh! Here I am!' And then there's a huge responsibility and the scary part of it, which is like, 'Now what happens?' And then you realize, 'Oh, yeah, this is my job.'

Phillipa Soo

ResponsibilityJobI AmCoolFace

Investors are always biased to invest in things they themselves understand. So venture capitalists like Uber because they like driving in black town cars. They don't like Airbnb because they like staying in five-star hotels, not sleeping on people's couches.

Peter Thiel

PeopleBlackDrivingUnderstandUber

Before September 11, terrorism was viewed as something ugly but you lived with it.

Paul Wolfowitz

UglyYouTerrorismLivedSeptember

'The Librarians' is a show that really needs to have ten days, but we shoot it in seven, so the workload is really tremendous, and we don't really quite have the budget to really give it the production value that it deserves, so we try to be as resourceful as we can.

Noah Wyle

ValueBudgetTryDaysProduction

Even in horror novels where you know most characters aren't going to make it to the end, it's crucial to have fully fleshed-out characters. If you don't do that, the reader doesn't care what happens to them.

Kelley Armstrong

CareEndYouKnowHorrorGoing

For the most part, it's straight white men running these labels and publishing companies.

Justin Tranter

MenWhiteStraightLabelsPublishing

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