George Bernard Shaw Quotes

All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.

George Bernard Shaw

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• When I was going through puberty, I had all these feelings of being unstable through those years, and being uncontrollably drawn to things of beauty and things that are bad.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Bad
  • Feelings
  • Years

• I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Up
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• Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Money
  • Worry
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• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Body

• I didn't want to get pregnant while commanding an assault helicopter company and, before I knew it, I was deployed and missed out on many of my childbearing years.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Want
  • Years
  • Company

• Generally, I love being part of a project that imparts a positive message, is somehow educational or enlightening, helps to bridge differences, or inspires viewers in some way.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Love
  • Positive
  • Bridge

• Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Bad
  • You
  • Ride

• Shakespeare is universal.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Universal
  • Shakespeare

• What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Want
  • Nose

• You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Quality

• For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Discipline

• For the sophisticated falsificationist a scientific theory T is falsified if and only if another theory T' has been proposed with the following characteristics :

  

  Imre Lakatos

• In Europe and in America, people are now more interested in the cost of quality and in systems of quality-audit. But in Japan, we are keeping very strong interest to improve quality by use of methods which you started....when we improve quality we also improve productivity, just as you told us in 1950 would happen.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • America
  • Strong

• A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Friend

• The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

  

  Alexander Cockburn
  • World
  • Lost
  • Imagination

• He reduced everything to politics; he was also unalterably of the Left. His line may have been unpopular or unfashionable, but he followed it unhesitatingly; in fact it was an obsession. He could not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • May
  • Blow

• There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feeling

• You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper.

  

  Edward de Bono
  • Different

• When I think of Othello, I think of a poet-warrior. Let me say that again - a romantic warrior. And I think I have those qualities in common with him.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Romantic
  • Warrior

• Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Men
  • Women
  • Commitment

• I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

  

  Lena Headey
  • Work
  • Great

• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• When I try to get clever I fail, so I stick with the basic issues of human life on earth - sex, death, relationships, discovering who you are, being hurt and confused.

  

  Barbara Ess
  • Earth
  • Hurt
  • Clever

• All very fine, Mary; but my old-fashioned common sense is better than your clever modern nonsense.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Clever