George Bernard Shaw Quotes

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

George Bernard Shaw

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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

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• What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

  

  Tamron Hall
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• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• When I did 'The Cell' - no matter what you think of that movie, because I have my opinions of it too - it was, you know, I still have nightmares from the research that I did. Not from playing the part, just from the research.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

  Felix Dennis
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  • Respect
  • Day

• If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Important
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• One who loves God sees everything in relation to God. Therefore, their love flows spontaneously toward everyone, at all times, everywhere. They even love those who wish them harm. If you love God, you can't hate anything or anyone. If the love one offers is met with hate, it doesn't die; rather, it manifests in the form.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Die

• I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Attention
  • Single
  • Working

• Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Energy
  • Oil
  • Electricity

• I try to steer away from doing something that's just commercial instead of sticking to a good script.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Good
  • Doing
  • Try

• Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Art
  • War

• If you're an actor, a real actor, you've got to be on the stage. But you mustn't go on the stage unless it's absolutely the only thing you can do.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Real

• Tugend ist zur Energie gewordne Vernunft.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

• There used to be that you only had four or five critics that you would look to for intelligent conversation, but now there are millions of people who can just press 'send,' and everyone's got an opinion even if no one cares what they say. It makes things a little bit tougher.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • People
  • Opinion
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• In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Beginning

• I've walked down the street with Madonna, and I've walked down the street with Colin Firth, and it was a little bit more... with Madonna they were a little rougher, but they were all there for Colin. It was amazing. Women adore him. They swoon.

  

  Beeban Kidron
  • Women
  • Amazing

• Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

  

  Chanakya
  • Up
  • Time
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• The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • God

• It took me about eight years to put together the program that I have been living for twenty years.

  

  Marilu Henner
  • Together

• Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Duty
  • Temptation
  • Loudest

• Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Work
  • Author

• For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Dream
  • Efficiency