George Bernard Shaw Quotes

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Myself
  • Exercise
  • Bike

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

• I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Want
  • Computers

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.

  

  Laura Bailey
  • Good
  • Different
  • Think

• I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Up
  • Best
  • Artist

• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Facts
  • Numbers
  • Belong

• February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Day
  • February
  • Are

• Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.

  

  Ovid

• The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Society
  • Taken

• I'm buzzin, Dirty Dozen, naughty rotten rhymer, cursin at you players worse than Marty Schottenheimer

  

  Eminem
  • Dirty
  • Naughty

• Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Happy
  • Wish
  • Air

• No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Up
  • World
  • Live

• I read in 'Life' magazine that Asians had developed an operation to enlarge eyes, and I yearned to have this done. I wanted to dye my hair brown and to anglicize my name. Self-hate was the most terrible cost of the war years for me.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Life
  • Done
  • War

• As for environmentalism, I'm only an environmentalist by accident. I live in New York, so I bike, and the closest grocery store to me sells organic produce. I also shop with a book bag because I ride a bike, and it's hard to carry the paper or plastic bags.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Live
  • Book
  • Bike

• This is what I want for entrepreneurs, especially for women: to believe in themselves, to dream bigger, reach higher, and to achieve success beyond their wildest expectations.

  

  Kay Koplovitz
  • Believe
  • Dream
  • Achieve

• The practice of shaving makes its first appearance in the Bible in connection with the story of Joseph, who as a young man was sold by his brothers into slavery in Egypt, where he was subsequently imprisoned on false charges.

  

  Meir Soloveichik
  • Practice
  • Bible
  • Connection

• I was in a cab in New York. The cab had a sign, 'Please do not smoke, Christ is our unseen guest.' This guy was reaching. I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don't think a Marlboro Light's gonna faze him that much.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • Guy
  • Light

• No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Bible