George Murray Quotes

Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

George Murray

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• The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Climb

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • God
  • Why
  • Problem

• All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Genius
  • Chaos
  • Mystery

• It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Year

• I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Me
  • Find
  • Mad

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Perfect
  • Player
  • Exist

• I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Wish
  • Road
  • Goal

• Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Road
  • Successful

• There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Want
  • Feel

• I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Think
  • Better
  • Sad

• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Music
  • Question

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Food
  • Quality
  • Brain

• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Me
  • Forever
  • Rap

• There is a power to the street that's part of the democratic process when all else has failed.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Power
  • Process
  • Democratic

• War provides an outlet for every evil element in man's nature. It enfranchises cupidity and greed gives a charter to petty tyranny, glorifies cruelty and places in positions of power the vulgar and base.

  

  C. E. M. Joad
  • Power
  • War
  • Nature

• It looks like our defense is quite a bit better than it has been in the last two years, ... If we can keep it up and stay at least in the middle of the league, that would be significant. We haven't ordered any championship rings yet; two games doesn't make a season. I love the Colorado air. I love the game, the competition, the show.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Championship
  • Rings
  • Ordered

• The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Business
  • Imagination
  • Poetry

• I think poetry workshops get a bad rap. I'm sure some aren't good, but in general, I like the format. I try and keep mine pretty informal. Sometimes we have wine or sake, and we read aloud, and we talk.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • Poetry
  • Wine
  • Format

• Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

  

  George Murray
  • Respect
  • Poetry