George Bernard Shaw Quotes
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
Quotes to Explore
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I believe in the 'Wal-Mart' school of business. The less people pay, the more they enjoy it.
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Homecourt is everything in the NBA.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.
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Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
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Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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The discipline of the writer is to learn to be still and listen to what his subject has to tell him.
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Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.
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I think that it's perhaps harder to learn from victory than it is from defeat. I think that we don't want defeat. We don't want defeat in sport. We don't want defeat in life. How are we going to be beaten? All right. We have to deal with those things. What's going to cause us to lose the game, whatever the game might be?
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When a president makes life and death decisions, he should draw strength and wisdom from broad and deep experience with the reasons for and the risks of committing our children to our defense. For no matter how many others are involved in the decision, the president is a lonely man in a dark room when the casualty reports come in.
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
