Zenek Cda 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

The note of almost unbearable irritation sounding through the deliberately calm tone in which he has just spoken penetrates her child's heart like a cruel needle of ice. Her face falls grotesquely, her mouth trembles, tears - the sudden, despairing tears of a hurt child - fill her eyes to the brim. — Anna Kavan

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness. — Henry Miller

Actions are destiny's pen. — Grenville Kleiser

If one chews a problem over long enough, it becomes apparent that the jaw is aching, and what started as weighing heavy on the heart ends up a pain in the neck. — Anthony Marais

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought. — Isocrates

Not only do you become what you think about, but the world also becomes what you think about. Those who think that the world is a dark place are blind to the light that might illuminate their lives. Those who see the light of the world view the dark spots as merely potential light. — Wayne W. Dyer

Women are never too old to wear pink," Fergus replied firmly. "I have heard les mesdames say so, many times. — Diana Gabaldon

He said nothing. It seemed the smartest thing to say. — Neil Gaiman

You know, I have a very bad reputation. — John Grisham

The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs. — Ron Brackin

He pressed his lips to her shoulder, whispering along her soft skin, "I'm right where I want to be. — Lisa Kessler

Now she understood how you can copyedit your own life in order to delete the hurtful truth. — Elaine Hussey

When it comes right down to it, someone else may be signing your paycheck but you are the person who fills in the amount. — Don Ward