George Bernard Shaw Quotes

This souls' prison we call England.

George Bernard Shaw

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• When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Business
  • Down

• I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Life
  • Unique
  • My Life

• I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Fun
  • Having Fun

• Some taxpayers may object to a print journalism bailout on the grounds that it mostly benefits the liberal elite. And we can't blame taxpayers for being reluctant to subsidize the reportorial careers of J-school twerps who should have joined the Peace Corps and gone to Africa to 'speak truth to power' to Robert Mugabe.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • May
  • Power

• We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Know
  • Same

• The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • School
  • Girl
  • Support

• You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally available and remain in the moment with your scene partner. You don't want to let your own self-consciousness block the flow of creativity that's coming out so that you can act and react, and play what the scene is all about.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Important
  • Yourself
  • Moment

• The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Power
  • Constitution

• What art does is it makes you feel alive and makes you feel like you're connected.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Art
  • You
  • Alive

• I like to play with tropes.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Play
  • Like

• The key to making a good forecast is not in limiting yourself to quantitative information.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Information

• I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • People
  • Think
  • Strong

• Simplicity is the glory of expression.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Expression
  • Simplicity

• Presidents have the right to nominate their own cabinet secretaries. But their nominees don't have a right to confirmation. Senators have a constitutional duty to advise and consent to the appointment of all Cabinet officials. They should take that duty seriously.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Take
  • Seriously
  • Consent

• I love those books like 'Gone with the Wind,' the huge, sweeping family sagas.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Family
  • Love
  • Wind

• Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Success

• When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.

  

  Brian Fallon

• The poet who speaks out of the deepest instincts of man will be heard. The poet who creates a myth beyond the power of man to realize is gagged at the peril of the group that binds him. He is the true revolutionary: he builds a new world.

  

  Babette Deutsch
  • World
  • Men
  • Power

• I kinda like this Jay-Z thing, where he’s retired, but he keeps doing shows. I think I beat him to that. If you say you’re retired, people don’t bother you so much, and then if you want to do something, you can do it.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Retired
  • Jay-Z
  • Doing shows

• Therefore, in order not to have to rob his subjects, to be able to defend himself, not to become poor and contemptible, and not to be forced to become rapacious, a prince must consider it of little importance if he incurs the name of miser, for this is one of the vices that permits him to rule.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Subjects
  • Defend
  • Rob

• Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Image
  • Souls

• I think corporations are a whole lot different than people. I mean, I don't know a corporation would be put in prison. I do know people would be put in prison.

  

  Jon Tester
  • People
  • Prison
  • Corporation

• This souls' prison we call England.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Prison
  • Souls
  • England