George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
-
Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
-
I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.
-
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
-
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
-
I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
-
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
-
I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
-
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
-
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
-
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
-
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
-
This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
-
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
-
My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
-
There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
-
I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.
-
I don't really see myself as an actor.
-
There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
-
There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
-
I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
-
I am that I am, I am beauty, I am peace, I am joy, I am one with Mother Earth. I am one with everyone within the reach of my voice. In this togetherness, we ask the divine intelligence to eradicate all negatives from our hearts, from our minds and from our actions. And so be it....ashe.
-
I love faces that have freckles. I love faces that have wrinkles. For me, beauty is naturalism, I guess.
-
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
