George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
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.
-
I write romance because I love to read romance.
-
I just write mechanical things.
-
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.
-
'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
-
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
-
I write in the studio.
-
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
-
I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
-
The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone.
-
I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
-
Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey.
-
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.
-
I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
-
I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
-
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.
-
In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
-
Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
-
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
