George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
Quotes to Explore
-
Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
-
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
-
I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
-
I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
-
Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
-
I'm actually doing a show. from my shed. on the internet. but it won't be music or anything, it's more to do with drinking and smoking. it's an art piece.
-
Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
-
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
-
My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
-
I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
-
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
-
Trade agreements are important because they open up new marketplaces to small businesses, which ultimately translates into more jobs and greater economic growth.
-
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
-
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
-
I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!
-
Stealing bases is just something I like to do. I figure if I can hit home runs and steal bases, I'd be different than everybody else.
-
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
-
Give me a highly successful unionized industry.
-
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
-
I won my first medal when I was nine years old. It was at the Boston Open.
-
It is strange that of all the pieces of the Bible which my mother taught me, that which cost me the most to learn, and which was to my childish mind the most repulsive - Psalm 119 - has now become of all the most precious to me in its overflowing and glorious passion of love for the Law of God.
-
I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm running up against actuality and beholden to the truth in a different way.
-
I am a junior senator, ninety-fifth on the seniority list, and so by Senate standards, my office in the Russell Senate Office Building is less than splendid.
-
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
