George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
Quotes to Explore
-
One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
-
Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
-
I boxed 15 years in a club.
-
Lebanese mezze, Cantonese dim sum and Basque pinchos have all evolved over years and are designed to make sense together.
-
I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
-
I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
-
I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
-
The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.
-
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
-
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
-
I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
-
In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
-
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
-
Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
-
When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
-
Over the years, so many exceptions and amendments were made to China's one-child policy that it was hard to pinpoint a moment to pronounce it dead.
-
I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
-
Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.
-
'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
-
With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
-
I would not spend one further moment on the subject of UFOs if I didnt seriously feel that the UFO phenomenon is real and that efforts to investigate and understand it, and eventually to solve it, could have a profound effect -- perhaps even be the springboard to mankinds outlook on the universe.
-
The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
-
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
