George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Know
  • Born
  • Died

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Best

• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Fast

• My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Daughter
  • Really

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• I don't like to look typical.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Look
  • Typical

• It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Control
  • Problem
  • Yourself

• When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Space
  • Water
  • Yourself

• Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Really
  • Italian
  • Early

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Issues
  • Journalism

• That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Dinner
  • Wolf
  • Shepherd

• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Interested
  • Slickness

• Owning a variety of asset classes means that some part of your portfolio will be doing well when the cyclical turmoil arises. A broadly diversified portfolio includes large capitalization stocks, small cap, emerging markets, fixed income, real estate and commodities.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Real
  • Small
  • Doing

• If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Book
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • People
  • Different
  • Real

• I am trying to get my paintings a bit lighter in tone, as some of my recent oils have been mistaken for night scenes.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Trying
  • Night

• Here are three things you can do, even when you feel like there isn't a friend in sight. You can be curious, you can be clean, and you can be Christlike.

  

  John Bytheway
  • Friend

• Close your senses and the imagination comes alive. It's inside us all, dulled by endless television reruns and by a society that reins in fantasy as something not to be trusted, something to be purged. But it's in there, deep inside, a spark waiting to set a touch-paper alight.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Society
  • Imagination
  • Deep

• What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic.

  

  Nevill Drury
  • Technology
  • Imagination
  • Equation

• Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Imagination
  • Beginning