George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Dying
  • Talking

• When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

  Banksy
  • Money
  • Art
  • Guy

• My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Write

• My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Age
  • Career
  • Man

• This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Good
  • Control
  • Passion

• I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • Mind
  • Control
  • Media

• Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

  

  Sampha
  • Music
  • Sometimes
  • Wonder

• It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Myself
  • Ethics
  • Journalism

• I've always been able to just concoct a melody quite easily - it's just kind of instinct, really. You've got to channel your subconscious.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • You
  • Kind
  • Always

• I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

  

  T-Pain
  • Person
  • Religion
  • Human

• My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

  

  Mamnoon Hussain
  • Fear
  • Control
  • Take

• You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • You
  • Always

• It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • Important
  • Age
  • Senior

• We need to tell young people that America was built by men and women of all colors and that the future of this country is dependent on the participation of all of our citizens.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Life
  • Stress
  • Choice

• Standing up to Ahmadinejad is not a partisan issue and should never be one.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Never
  • Should

• If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Film
  • English
  • Release

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • Writing
  • Story

• The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Great
  • Player
  • Golf

• You can always get better.

  

  Carson Palmer
  • Better

• The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.

  

  Ernst Fischer
  • Disaster
  • Antidote
  • Bosses

• Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Fly
  • Learned
  • Birds