George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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• Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Great
  • City
  • New York

• I busted my butt all my life building companies.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Building

• I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Past

• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Run
  • Going
  • Away

• I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Healthy
  • Diet
  • Favourite

• You see, at 25, I was very new to my craft. I was raw as an actor; my exposure was limited... No matter what field you are in, experience adds to your personality.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Experience
  • You
  • Personality

• We Franz Marc & Kandinsky thought up the name Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) while sitting at a cafe table.. .Both of us were fond of blue things, Franz Marc of blue horses, and I of blue riders. So the title suggested itself.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Up
  • Blue

• I am not some sort of freak. I might be very good at chess but I'm just a normal person.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Good
  • Chess

• In the federal confirmation process, a standard question from the judiciary committee is, 'Well, if you're confirmed will you legislate?' And, with a look of horror, the nominee says, 'Oh, I won't legislate.' Well, what about the law of contract and tort; where do they think it came from, the stork?

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Law
  • Question

• I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

  

  Courtney Love

• Your average game show host on TV, for instance, doesn't believe himself to be banal. He actually thinks that he's quite interesting. And if you look at the viewing figures, so do an enormous number of people in this country.

  

  Clive Barker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Country

• Hydration is really important, particularly as a beach volleyball player.

  

  Brooke Sweat
  • Important
  • Player
  • Beach

• I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I think a fictional invention grows according to its own development, not the author's. Characters in fiction are not simply as alive as you and me, they are more alive. Becky Sharp, Elizabeth Bennett, and Don Quixote may not outlive the burning out of the sun, but they will certainly outlive the brief candle of our lives.

  

  Cynthia Ozick
  • May
  • Sun
  • Author

• I like the facts. I find them interesting.

  

  Maury Yeston
  • Interesting

• I simply loved education. I mean, I always loved acting as well. It really was a major passion for me, but one I felt I could only fully explore once I'd completed my degree.

  

  Jodhi May
  • Education
  • Passion
  • Explore

• A rule against paid fast lanes would encourage additional capacity; a rule permitting paid fast lanes would simply encourage cable companies to create congested slow lanes on the Internet so they could make money by selling fast lanes to big companies.

  

  Marvin Ammori
  • Money

• My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.

  

  Jimmy Smith
  • Practice

• It is ill to praise, and worse to reprimand in matters that you do not understand.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Soul
  • Desire

• I think it’s the shock of every writer’s life when their first book is published. The shock of their lives. One has somehow to adjust from being anonymous, a figure in ambush, working from concealment, to being and working in full public view. It had an enormous effect on me. My impression was that I had suddenly walked into a wall of heavy hostile fire.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Life
  • Book
  • Fire

• It means I wake up to sunshine every morning, and I can afford to drink better wine at night. But I haven't completely sold out to Hollywood.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• The current fad in art, is to shock people or appear 'different'... My goal is to help people find the rays of sunshine in an often dark world.

  

  Gary Hallinan
  • People
  • Different
  • Sunshine

• Whisky is liquid sunshine.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Sunshine
  • Whisky
  • Liquid