George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.George Bernard Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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In captivity, one loses every way of acting over little details which satisfy the essentials of life. Everything has to be asked for: permission to go to the toilet, permission to ask a guard something, permission to talk to another hostage - to brush your teeth, use toilet paper, everything is a negotiation.
Ingrid Betancourt -
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
Ted Shackelford -
I'm not really into weight training.
Yunjin Kim -
You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
Sam Heughan -
Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
Natalie Goldberg
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
Lamar Odom -
As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
Randy Forbes -
I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.
Gary Cole -
You have to think about your image and how you want people to view you. And if it becomes too much, people will get kind of tired of you.
Victor Cruz -
I'm thinking of taking up golf, but the idea of spending time with golfers frightens me.
Harlan Coben -
I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.
Aaron Koblin
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Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.
Walter Bagehot -
Do we regard language as more public, more ceremonial, than thought? Just as family men condemn the profanity on the stage that they use constantly in conversation, in the same way we may look to written language as an idealization rather than a reflection of ourselves.
Edmund White -
Use some reverence. Remember what he was only a minute ago. You wouldn't have dared laid a hand on him.
P. D. James -
It is futile to fight against, if one does not know what one is fighting for.
Ayn Rand -
L'accent est l'âme du discours.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Does that make you happy, Mr. Rock & Roll Fantasy? You know what? Eddie Vedder’s gonna live to be 98. How’s that make you feel, huh? I love you, come back. You come back! You love us. You love me, don’t you? You love Frances. Where are you? Are you happier now?
Courtney Love
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One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
Robert Frost -
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
Virginia Woolf -
The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
O. Henry -
People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.
Allan Gregg -
Once you know the fundamentals of cooking, then you don't need to follow a recipe - you just know what herbs go well or what meats, or what combination of what goes together, and then you can just branch out from there. But if there's something specific that I want to make, I work on the recipe and tweak it to my own.
Keshia Knight Pulliam -
If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.
George Bernard Shaw