George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...

George Bernard Shaw

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• In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Fun
  • Period
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• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
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• I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Book
  • First
  • Late

• A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
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• I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
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• Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Never
  • Choice
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• I have a fierce temper. I've mastered it over the years, but when I'm angry, no one can force me to do anything I don't want to.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Want
  • Me
  • Angry

• The waves of religion based on terrorism in the 1990s are based on the tormented response of a mutilated Muslim society whose progressive forces have been savagely emasculated. Why on earth is the Arab world so hostile to women? Why can it not see women as a force for development?

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • World
  • Women
  • Why

• I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Up
  • Different
  • Eyes

• My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Faith

• Salutations

  

  E. B. White

• Sure, politics ain't bean-bag. 'Tis a man's game, an' women, childer, cripples an' prohybitionists 'd do well to keep out iv it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Women
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• There are no absolute certainties in this universe. A man must try to whip order into a yelping pack of probabilities, and uniform success is impossible.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Success
  • Universe

• Joy is the best makeup.

  

  Anne Lamott
  • Joy
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• The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendor that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

  

  Ayn Rand

• I die - but first I have possessed,And come what may, I have been blessed.

  

  Lord Byron
  • May
  • Die
  • Blessed

• You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Guy
  • Know

• I have eight brothers and sisters, so I'd like to have a few children.

  

  Alek Wek
  • Children

• When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Never
  • Far

• Those who stand on their toes are not steady.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Stand
  • Steady
  • Toes

• When AIDS hit, lots of people banded together to take care of each other and do what the government wasn't doing. When you grow up Jewish, as I have, you learn that everybody hates you, no one's going to help you, and you have to take care of yourself. That's a great maxim to the gay community, and we took it to heart; we took care of our own.

  

  Bruce Vilanch
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Heart
  • Imagination
  • Irishman