George Bernard Shaw Quotes

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

George Bernard Shaw

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• My mother has been a wonderful model for the professional woman - a loving mother dedicated to both her family and her work. She inspired me, made me proud, and developed in me an enormous respect for women in general.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Work
  • Women
  • Family

• Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Business
  • Power
  • Science

• Right when 'High School Musical' was taking off, one of my little cousins called and was really excited to tell me there was a huge 'I Hate Zac Efron' club at her school. I'm sure they're doing great. More power to them.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • School
  • Power

• I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Lost

• Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Yourself

• Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Power
  • Know
  • Greatest

• I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Art
  • Pretty
  • Always

• Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Organization

• They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?'

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Power
  • Man
  • Name

• What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Like
  • Things
  • Make

• If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Politics

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Up
  • Love
  • Think

• There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • World
  • Art
  • Road

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• I'm interested in full disclosure for people who give money to politicians. But I'm not a politician. I'm an advocate.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Money
  • Give

• If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • People

• In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Reality
  • Running

• Local television and local TV news isn't telling the voters about local candidates.

  

  Reed Hundt
  • Television
  • Candidates
  • Voters

• By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.

  

  Ralph Baer
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  • Wind
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• She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Art
  • She
  • Power