Syllabub Food Quotes & Sayings

Described by Harold Bloom as "the beginning of the end of the traditional novel of social morality" (xii), George Eliot's Middlemarch is nonetheless replete with a kind of authorial intervention that modern readers might find tiresome. Readers today are accustomed to the contemporary fictional maxim of "show, don't tell" but Eliot had different aesthetic ideas, for she always tells us right away who we are dealing with. At the beginning of Middlemarch, the character of one of its protagonists, Dorothea Brooke, is laid out. Eliot writes, — George Eliot

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts. — Katey Sagal

In 1979, I moved to England and photographed Joy Division and Bowie and Beefheart. At that time I got images that I felt had that special, well - power is a big word to say - more like intimacy and ambition that outlasted the photo shoot. I felt that they would have a longer life. — Anton Corbijn

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo. — Kurt Vonnegut

People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with. — Amos Lee

Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict. — Eamon De Valera

Malicious men may die, but malice never. — Moliere

Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon — Dan Brown

Who are we without our memories? — Marta Acosta

My brain is like a water faucet that I can turn on or off. Only now there is no off and the water of thoughts just flows. — Francisco X Stork

As the world becomes ever more crowded, so folding will become ever more important. — Guy Browning

I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can. — Kelly Corrigan

Badass is a juvenile aspiration. — Gabrielle Hamilton

No word of ignorance leaves no double thoughts on a plain page with a headline without extra lines of madness marked on it. — Auliq Ice