George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Thought
  • Wrong

• I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

  

  Lady Starlight
  • Believe
  • Choice
  • Conformity

• The people that are serving you gas, the people that are in your restaurants serving you, the firefighters, and police officers are members of the gay and lesbian community. They're members of our broader community.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Community
  • Gay

• Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Think
  • Me
  • Story

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Today
  • Girl

• Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Business
  • Small

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Say

• I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Work
  • Science

• It's no secret that I wear a kippa.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Secret
  • Wear

• I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Home
  • Cold
  • Christmas

• I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• When I run - you can see my record - I run to win.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Win
  • See
  • Run

• I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Me
  • Opinion

• I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Together
  • Father

• I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• Words are women, deeds are men.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Words

• As irony would have it, the very person who inspired me to write a memoir... was the only person to be ejected from it. My brother didn't appear in 'Out of Egypt.'

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Brother
  • Inspired

• I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.

  

  M. Ward
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Hand

• No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

  

  Al Smith
  • Up
  • Christmas

• I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

  

  Adrian McKinty
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Wise

• I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Christmas
  • Subject
  • Introduce