George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Ira Sachs -
For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
Patricia Briggs -
It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
Larry Hagman -
At some particular time, when I was 14 years old, I've done something that people didn't expect.
Nadia Comaneci -
There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
Carl Honore -
It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
Adam Driver -
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
Hamilton Jordan -
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
J. P. Morgan -
Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
Ed Miliband -
Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
Yoko Ono
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My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
Vin Diesel -
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
For months the life of the little band went on much as it had before, except that Tarzan's greater intelligence and his ability as a hunter were the means of providing for them more bountifully than ever before. Most of them, therefore, were more than content with the change in rulers.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
Wallace Stevens -
Even as a full-grown adult, it can still feel destabilizing when your family goes through changes.
Jenny Han -
I like to see people who are survivors wearing my shoes. I am fascinated by people who can bounce back.
Christian Louboutin
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Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
Pericles -
For me, I feel like God is intuition and an inner knowing. I think it's difficult to be successful without that because that's where you have to come from if you're really going to knock it out of the park. For me, it's more a sort of a universal energy.
Jen Sincero -
The Feminine force of life is often too wise for the Masculine's need to know: The mysterious energy of the evolving cosmos is always superior to our temporary scientific notions about it. . .
David Deida -
For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
Ella Henderson -
Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.
Chuck Klosterman -
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
George Bernard Shaw