Eliot Quote by Hillary Rodham Clinton

“T. S. Eliot writes in his poem “East Coker”: “Old men ought to be explorers.”

— Guideposts

“Reading The Waste Land, then, is in part reading about reading in the early twentieth century. The crisis in epistemology brought on by the…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not…

— Pankaj Mishra

Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on the whole…

— T.S. Mathews

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without…

— Bill N. Lacy

But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

When I was a teenager I fell in love with TS Eliot.

— Olga Tokarczuk

“Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a…

— George Eliot

“The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” William…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end.…

— Matt Bors

“The angels come to visit us,          and we only know them   when they are gone.     —George Eliot”

— Ann Brashares