George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

George Bernard Shaw

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• We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Business
  • Power
  • High

• In any commersial setting time comes in three forms. There's real time, there's perceived time, and there's a combination of two.

  

  Paco Underhill
  • Time
  • Real

• The latest political rumor, North Korea ruler Kim Jong Il is close to naming his successor. Yeah, he said the only person with glasses big enough to replace me is Nicole Richie.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Political
  • Rumor
  • North Korea

• Character is "a stamp of good repute on a person."

  

  Euripides
  • Character
  • Stamp
  • Repute

• I will be putting out a fragrance - I'm following in the great steps of Puff Daddy.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Fragrance
  • Putting
  • Great Steps

• Racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, sexism, anything Nazi and a boatload of other things have no place in my life.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Racism
  • Sexism
  • Nazi

• I will maintain it before the whole world.

  

  Moliere
  • World
  • Maintain

• The meaning lies in the appropriation.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Lies
  • Meaning
  • Appropriation

• Love. It's so close to hate, it's almost indistinguishable.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Love
  • Hate

• Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • Luck

• Trying to tart the rock business up a bit is getting nearer to what the kids themselves are like, because what I find, if you want to talk in the terms of rock, a lot depends on sensationalism and the kids are a lot more sensational than the stars themselves.

  

  David Bowie
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • Term

• But what exceeds all wonders, I have discovered four new planets and observed their proper and particular motions, different among themselves and from the motions of all the other stars; and these new planets move about another very large star [Jupiter] like Venus and Mercury, and perchance the other known planets, move about the Sun. As soon as this tract, which I shall send to all the philosophers and mathematicians as an announcement, is finished, I shall send a copy to the Most Serene Grand Duke, together with an excellent spyglass, so that he can verify all these truths.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Truths
  • Planets
  • Wonders

• The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Planets
  • Lunatic asylum