George Bernard Shaw Quotes

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Important
  • Character

• My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Death

• What I love about film is that everybody often connects to something so different, and things you couldn't anticipate when you were making the film, so you just make it as honest as possible.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Film
  • Learn
  • Possible

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Sad

• In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Up
  • Europe
  • Improve

• I guess I probably make violent films partly because I can't express my anger in my real life very well.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Life
  • Real
  • Anger

• I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Time
  • Long
  • Society

• When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • She
  • Me
  • Sick

• Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Look
  • Sound
  • Grow

• Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes everything. You are almost in a working session. I was very comfortable, and that's maybe what helped me to get the part.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Work
  • Me
  • Person

• When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Good
  • Justice

• The instant myth of Amy Fisher turned feminist dogma on on is head: as in the hit films Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, woman rules and destroys. The femme fatale is for real.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Real
  • Hand
  • Feminist

• There is something about raising a child that helps to sharpen one’s sense of what is real.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Real

• Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Morning

• Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Work

• If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Cat

• I've spent my life doing action films and most of my own stunts, so my teeth have been knocked out along the way. It happened so frequently that I can't even remember where I lost most of them.

  

  James Cosmo
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Action

• Being in a field like healthcare, for me, as someone who is basically on a mission to make a global impact in terms of affordable access to healthcare, I am very, very concerned about the fact that there are a large number of people in this world who need to have some access to basic rights, whether it is in education or healthcare.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • People
  • World
  • Education

• For by doing these things the gates of hell shall not prevail against you; yea, and the Lord God will disperse the powers of darkness from before you, and cause the heavens to shake for your good, and his name's glory.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Good
  • God
  • Powers

• I'm cynical by nature, but I am also very hopeful because I see people from the Left and the Right showing up to these tea parties. You have people, bikers, union members and guys in three-piece suits showing up to these things.

  

  Joe Wurzelbacher
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • God
  • Paradise