George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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I myself am a former commando fighter.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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Actors need to learn when their character is front and center and when it's more in the background.
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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As a designer, I'm not a guy that can be put in a niche.
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It's always extremities when you are a young black male dealing with law enforcement.
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Some like them fat, some like them tall, some like them short, skinny legs and all. I like them all.
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All I can do is make sure Demetrious Johnson does the best he can on fight night and goes out and wins his fights.
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All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
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I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.
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All those words of praise they use for novels – spare, economical. Why should I shell out £17 for economical?
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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
