George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
-
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
-
Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
-
There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
-
If you want to be happy, make others happy!
-
If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
-
Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
-
If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
-
I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
-
There are charms made only for distant admiration.
-
But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
-
I think the phrase that resonates from 'Just One Year' is something I sort of live by: 'The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.'
-
When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.
-
The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
-
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
-
I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
-
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
-
I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
-
Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.
-
The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.
-
P.S. Perl's master plan (or what passes for one) is to take over the world like English did. Er, *as* English did...
-
There's an ancient connection between movement and music. Most languages don't make a distinction between the words 'music' and 'dance.' And we can see that in the brain. When people are lying perfectly still but listening to music, the neurons in the motor cortex are firing.
-
I heard your prayers Thank God it's all over!