George Jean Nathan Quotes

Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

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• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Doubt

• I'm tired of the speculation about my personal life.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Tired
  • Personal

• The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Important
  • Write
  • Most

• Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Money
  • Government
  • Numbers

• I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Men
  • Women
  • Mind

• Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Expression

• Around 2005, the Canadian army tapped me to do a dramatization for a series of foresight workshops they'd done. They had stacks of papers and needed it boiled down to something simple enough for a 4-star general to understand. We decided to do it as a story. That's how I created 'Crisis in Zefra.'

  

  Karl Schroeder
  • Story
  • Understand
  • Army

• I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Country
  • America
  • Think

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Constitution
  • Him
  • Sexuality

• I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Career
  • Thought
  • Nothing

• Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Believe
  • Trying
  • Credit

• I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.

  

  Ted Naifeh
  • People
  • Time
  • Character

• That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • New York
  • Cocktail

• I think people have to sharpen their eyes and look. I always feel like a big sponge: I feel like I learn lots of things by osmosis, and I feel that I'm always absorbing. I mean, when people say, 'What is your inspiration?' I could throw up. I mean, I'm inspired by the fact I get up in the morning. And I'm still here.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Eyes
  • Morning
  • Learn

• I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • America
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Future
  • Today

• Nobody notices when things go right.

  

  George Zimmerman
  • Things
  • Right
  • Notice

• I have a real dog-like mentality, in that it's like, 'Where is my next meal coming from? Am I ever gonna eat again? Will I ever write another song again? Will anyone show up for tour?' I think it comes from being really poor as a kid.

  

  Neko Case
  • Up
  • Real
  • Song

• I began running on an everyday basis after I became a writer. As being a writer requires sitting at a desk for hours a day, without getting some exercise you'd quickly get out of shape and gain weight, I figured.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Running
  • Exercise
  • Writer

• While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Nation

• God is so big. It's a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we're small – minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

  

  Bono U2
  • God
  • Religion
  • Idea

• Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.

  

  George Jean Nathan
  • Dog