George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.
-
But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
-
I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
-
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
-
I believe the United States is the greatest country on Earth. I really do.
-
One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
-
I don't go out. I don't go to clubs. It's not my thing. I sit at home with my glass of wine and watch hours of reality TV. I have a million shows on my TiVo.
-
I am thinking about launching a wine website where there is a deal and the crowd can dictate how cheap it can get.
-
The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
-
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
-
People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
-
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
-
It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
-
There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
-
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
-
I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
-
We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.
-
I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.
-
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.
-
If I write nothing but fiction for some time I begin to get stupid, and to feel rather as if it had been a long meal of sweets; then history is a rest, for research or narration brings a different part of the mind into play.
-
When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to read these stupid books to our kids, and we all want to just tell our kids, "This is really bad. Don't you know that? Can't you see that?"
-
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade and sell it to all of those who get thirsty from complaining.
-
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
