George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...
Quotes to Explore
-
There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
-
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
-
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
-
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
-
Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
-
I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
-
I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
-
I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
-
There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
-
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
-
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
-
The Swiss can be very difficult.
-
My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
-
I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
-
A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
-
People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.
-
Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence.
-
The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
-
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
-
She might not be as strong as everyone she met, or as fast, or even as smart. But she could bullshit with the best of them. Combine that quality with a license to carry, and a girl could more than get by in this life.
-
We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
-
You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
-
I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
-
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...
