Watchingitnow 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

I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction. — James Hetfield

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy. — Bob McDonnell

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more. — Jill Abramson

Few things have more impact than nutrition on a child's ability to survive, learn effectively and escape a life of poverty. — Ann Veneman

Sweets to the sweet. — William Shakespeare

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers. — Jean-Claude Van Damme

You don't do a business for pleasure: You have to make money. — Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Being sixteen forever sounded good until you really thought about it. Then it didn't seem like such a great prospect. — Cassandra Clare

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat. — Peter Blegvad