George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Space
  • Stars
  • Sand

• In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Past
  • Present
  • Write

• If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Good
  • Work
  • Write

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Story

• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Remember
  • Write
  • Type

• I write romance because I love to read romance.

  

  Rachel Gibson
  • Love
  • Write
  • Read

• I just write mechanical things.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Things
  • Write
  • Just

• My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Great
  • Write
  • Grandmother

• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Abuse

• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

  L. E. Modesitt
  • Man
  • Never
  • Write

• Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Write
  • Hard
  • Yes

• I write in the studio.

  

  Macy Gray
  • Write
  • Studio
  • I Write

• Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Up
  • Family
  • Write

• I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Movie
  • Career
  • Nice

• The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • People
  • Kings
  • Stone

• I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Family
  • Times
  • Been

• Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Career
  • Journey
  • Stone

• I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • Write
  • Piano
  • Software

• My son, Sanjay, and I discuss a lot of things. Like, he gives me feedback on my films and what his friends say at school.

  

  Vijay
  • School
  • Friends
  • Son

• Everyone in the land has an equal chance. In war the bravest becomes a general, in peace the cleverest is chosen as a councillor.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Chance
  • Everyone
  • Land

• Affirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • People
  • Action
  • Government

• Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.

  

  Sidney Hook
  • Death
  • Present
  • Tyranny

• Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Write
  • Times
  • Stone