George Bernard Shaw Quotes

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

George Bernard Shaw

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• The characters in 'Ray Donovan' are not very articulate - we're the worst Irish family you could ever live next to in L.A.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Live
  • Family
  • Irish

• My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Brother

• In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Way
  • General
  • Microscope

• I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • Think
  • Irish

• My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • America
  • Dad
  • Childhood

• It's not that I don't like American pop; I'm a huge admirer of it, but I think my roots came from a very English and Irish base. Is it all sort of totally non-American sounding, do you think?

  

  Kate Bush
  • American
  • Think
  • English

• The gun is not out of Irish politics.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Politics
  • Gun
  • Irish

• Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.

  

  Oliver St. John
  • People
  • Politics
  • Irish

• The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Music
  • Period
  • General

• In general, comedians are attracted to vice.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • General
  • Vice
  • Comedians

• Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Politicians
  • Noise
  • General

• I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Person
  • Actor
  • Irish

• Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Poetry
  • End
  • Irish

• I got an Irish passport the other day. I love it. It's the best thing in my pocket.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Irish

• There are so many wonderful, wonderful musicians in the world, I cannot possibly make a distinction between the fact that they might play classical music, or bluegrass, or Irish traditional, or Indian music.

  

  Daniel Hope
  • World
  • Music
  • Irish

• There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can't think of one at the moment.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Rock
  • Star
  • Irish

• I have three older brothers. I'm Irish. I'm feisty.

  

  Martha McSally
  • Irish

• I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.

  

  Dave Gibbons
  • Up
  • Done
  • Book

• One bad general is worth two good ones.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Good
  • General

• We feel like there's a lot of up-and-coming guys that can play well at times, but we just haven't really put a tournament together, ... I don't really know why we haven't done that well. But we're working hard. I guess the general consensus would be that we just need, I guess, a little bit more experience under our belts and need a breakthrough win. Hopefully this can be mine.

  

  Brian Baker Bad Religion
  • Experience
  • General
  • Bit

• I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Society

• I made the first Feist album in '98. So at that point, it was my nickname. It was as far as with my circle of friends, and just felt more accurate than two names.

  

  Feist
  • Friends
  • First
  • Circle

• My parents didn't really know one another.

  

  Christopher Durang
  • Parents

• An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Irish
  • General
  • English army