George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum...

George Bernard Shaw

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• Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Leader
  • Satan

• Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Character
  • Personality

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • You
  • Expect
  • Popularity

• Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm

• The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Work
  • Money
  • Business

• Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Working

• The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

  

  Harry Bertoia
  • Good
  • Design
  • Living

• My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Professional

• I never believe in going to America with my show reel and knocking on every agent's door. I couldn't even do it. I'm way too insecure and too proud.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Believe
  • America
  • Proud

• If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era and time I was coming up, was almost equivalent to how a 'Braveheart' or 'Gladiator' movie would be.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I don't think there's more than half-a-dozen cartoons that I've been really truly happy with in all the time I've been doing it.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Doing

• You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.

  

  Otto Wallach
  • Structure
  • Task
  • Internal

• My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Oil

• Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).

  

  Pat Robertson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Bible

• Who wants to go beyond the Bojador Must go beyond pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain

• If you're going to take a risk as a comic, make sure it's surrounded by other things that you're certain are funny.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Funny
  • Risk

• I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.

  

  Annie Leibovitz
  • Time
  • Night
  • Sexy

• To read a newspaper for the first time is like coming into a film that has been on for an hour. Newspapers are like serials. To understand them you have to take knowledge to them; the knowledge that serves best is the knowledge provided by the newspaper itself.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Film

• I am open to the accusation that I see compost as an end it itself. But we do grow some real red damn tomatoes such as you can't get in the stores. And potatoes, beans, lettuce, collards, onions, squash, cauliflower, eggplant, carrots, peppers. Dirt in you own backyard, producing things you eat. Makes you wonder.

  

  Roy Blount, Jr.
  • Real
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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  • Earth
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