George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Study
  • Photography
  • Bicycle

• Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilisation in high boots.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Occasions
  • Lack
  • Civilisation

• I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• When all thermonuclear sources of energy are exhausted a sufficiently heavy star will collapse. Unless fission due to rotation, the radiation of mass, or the blowing off of mass by radiation, reduce the star's mass to the order of that of the sun, this contraction will continue indefinitely.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Energy
  • Star
  • Sun

• Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Why
  • Bicycle
  • Steal

• I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • History
  • Honor

• For the economy itself will die if our ecosystems collapse.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Die
  • Economy
  • Collapse

• Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Opinion
  • Conflict
  • Civilisation

• It used to be said that you had to know what was happening in America because it gave us a glimpse of our future. Today, the rest of America, and after that Europe, had better heed what happens in California, for it already reveals the type of civilisation that is in store for all of us.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • America
  • Future
  • Today

• Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Quality

• The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Producers
  • Collapse
  • Buyers

• Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly improbable accident, the observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying, one might say, supernatural plan.

  

  Arno Penzias
  • Life
  • Science
  • Support

• The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Different
  • Purpose
  • Mistakes

• I ran into Stephen King once in New York a few years ago and outside the Carlyle and he said, "You're in the pink." Which sounded so Stephen King. He's doing well I think after his accident and all of that, years and years ago.

  

  Kathy Bates
  • New York
  • Pink
  • Accident

• That's no accident. It means you're getting your players to focus at the most important time of the year. It means you've got your team playing at a higher level because everybody is going to play at another level against you.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Time
  • Important
  • Team

• The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need.

  

  James Naismith
  • Basketball
  • Invention
  • Accident

• We are all either wheels or connectors. Whichever we are we must find truth and balance, which is a bicycle. Trust and balance are also essential to true love.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Balance
  • Essentials
  • Bicycle

• He, who knows how to distinguish between true and false, must have an adequate idea of true and false.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • True
  • False
  • Distinguish

• I am an indie kid. I made no bones about the fact that I fell into DJing electronic music by accident, by a lucky break, but it doesn't make me any less of a fan of that music, I just never envisaged... not through a lack of confidence or belief, I just didn't think that I'd be sharing the bill with people that I was going out to see myself.

  

  Erol Alkan
  • Music
  • Confidence
  • Kid

• All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

  

  John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Dream

• Though I am able to do nothing else in this life, except only seek, my life seeming to others a vie manquee, yet it will not be so, because what I seek is the goodness of God that waters the dry places. And water overflows from one dry patch to another, and so you cannot be selfish in digging for it.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • My Life
  • Seek
  • Goodness Of God

• Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Accident
  • Collapse
  • Bicycle