The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when theyre gone. – George Eliot
All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. – George Eliot
To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy. – George Eliot
Something like Without a Paddle does really well at the box office and Im like, Oh, here we go. In Without a Paddle Im the romantic lead – great! A comedy and thats what America wants. Then it did nothing for me and I went into kind-of a work abyss. I just didnt get another shot. – Matthew Lillard