George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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I think they do a great job on Queer as Folk.
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AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
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MSNBC got rid of so many black people, I thought Boko Haram was running that network.
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I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.
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Nothing embitters my old age like the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.
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A novelist has more talent for written than oral assignments.
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Boys, don't try to find a woman as wonderful as your mother to marry because if you do, you'll stay single your whole lives.
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I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
