George Bernard Shaw Quotes

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Artist
  • Poet
  • Embarrassing

• I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Hope
  • Way
  • Me

• Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • People
  • America
  • Realize

• I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Write
  • Try

• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Choices

• For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Present
  • Doing
  • Professional

• Of the judicial department of the Government, the Supreme Court is the head and representative, and to it must come for final decision all the great legal questions which may arise under the Constitution, the laws, or the treaties of the United States.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Great
  • May
  • Government

• Sometimes fashion designers will be like, 'This is what's hot right now, and you will be cool if you wear this,' but sometimes it's too expensive or doesn't look good on me or isn't who I am, and I don't need to just think that what you're saying is what's cool if I have my own identity.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Good
  • Fashion
  • Cool

• I hear the Sophie Giraffe is great for teething. Another thing I really love right now is the Moby Baby Carrier. To me, it seems like a natural way to hold the baby close to you. I also love the burp cloths, bibs, and swaddle blankets from Aden and Anais. Their stuff is organic and pure.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • Way
  • Like
  • Baby

• Religion makes them crazy. Not a woman I ever met wasn’t crazy with religion.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Crazy

• I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • American
  • House
  • Animal

• An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Life

• I wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. They need to worry if Obama gets reelected.

  

  David A. Siegel
  • Worry

• It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Weird
  • Rebel

• When I do a mix tape for my kids, for my friends, for my lover, I meticulously choose the tracks, and it's beautiful. And when they are alone they think of me - and when I am alone I think of them.

  

  Jean-Marc Vallee
  • Kids
  • Friends
  • Beautiful

• It is a curious foible of a certain type of mind that it is unable to imagine a newspaper editor as one who may, on some public questions, honestly have the same view as that held by other persons.

  

  Elmer Davis
  • Mind
  • May

• There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Mind
  • Brain
  • Sex

• Biblical counselors and therapists, we've seen cases in New Jersey and in California where folks have gotten in trouble because they gave biblical counseling and, you know, the issue is always, it's same sex. And if you're giving conversion therapy, that's been outlawed in at least two states and then in some local areas.

  

  Jeffrey C. Mateer
  • Giving
  • Sex
  • California

• You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.

  

  Carolyn Kizer
  • Moments
  • Eye
  • Streets

• I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by the superabundance of his nothingness.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Taken

• I don't like the fashion world. It's too nasty, too rip-off, too hard. And now it's all Gucci and Prada; it's very difficult to make your own business.

  

  Anita Pallenberg
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Difficult

• We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Sex
  • Taught
  • Subjects