George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Movie
  • Trust

• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Up
  • Know
  • Like

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Angry
  • Birds
  • While

• She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • She
  • Lost
  • Decision

• What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Change
  • Person
  • Awareness

• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
  • Me
  • Story

• A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

  

  Ferdinand Buisson
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Justice

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Long
  • Live
  • Experience

• I'm a child of the Sixties.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Child
  • Sixties

• I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Opportunity
  • Difference

• It is the central bank governor, unlike other regulators or government secretaries, who has command over significant policy levers and has to occasionally disagree with the most powerful people in the country.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Why
  • Think
  • Know

• I've done a lot of things in my life.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Done
  • My Life

• We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Fun

• The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Me

• I say things as if they've already happened, so as I'm getting ready I can think about it and feel it, how it's going to feel to win, and I see myself getting on the podium.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Win

• I realise I might pass down an incurable illness to my son, but living based on what might go wrong seems like less and less of a life as I get older. The one thing I can try to control is whether I teach my child to be ruled by anxiety, by fear. That's something that gets passed down, too.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Control

• America Online, of course, is a master of the hard sell, from stuffing mailboxes with free trial offers to forcing subscribers to click through ads before they can get their e-mail.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • America
  • Free

• I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• The only thing that bothers me is that the girls come up to me and say, "I'm dating your ex-husband." I'm happy that he's dating girls and getting out.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Girl

• Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Husband