George Pierce Baker Quotes

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

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• People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Think
  • Before

• I went out with this boy on the proviso that he didn't tell anybody we were together. The idiot didn't keep his mouth shut. I dumped him. I never went out with a boy from school again.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • School
  • Together
  • Boy

• Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Feeling
  • Natural
  • Soviet

• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Good
  • Happy
  • Band

• I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Start

• Be comfortable. I think if you're comfortable, you exude confidence, and that leads to good style.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Good
  • Style
  • Confidence

• I am quite a private person.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Person
  • Private

• I don't need any more money.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Money
  • Need
  • More

• I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Right
  • Israel

• I believe that most police are conscientious and want only to provide safety for us.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Police
  • Safety

• During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

  

  Karl G. Maeser
  • God
  • Believe
  • Trust

• I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Never
  • Mood
  • Drink

• I understand why war is not popular, but I also know this: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice. That's why NATO continues to be indispensable. That's why we must strengthen U.N. and regional peacekeeping, and not leave the task to a few countries.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Why
  • War
  • Peace

• Whether a person is spiritual or not, we all seek to get away from the stress, anger, and anxiety of everyday life. Some people drink, do drugs, or do worse to escape, and they hurt themselves in the process. Some people listen to music, mine included, and feel better.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Throughout Jack's violin solo at the Hollywood Bowl, the audience was glued to their seats. That was the only way he could get them to sit down.

  

  Zubin Mehta

• What honey? What is that? It's a sign, I can't see it, wait a minute. Oh, thank you darlin', thank you very much. Oh, thank you. The thought is beautiful dear, and I love you for it, but I, I haven't been caught up in this thing and I can't accept this kingship thing because to me there's only one, which is Christ.

  

  Elvis Presley
  • Up
  • Beautiful

• In the arms of the angel,Fly away from here.From this dark cold hotel room,And the endlessness you feel.You are pulled from the wreckageOf your silent reverie.You're in the arms of the angel;May you find some comfort here.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • May
  • Dark
  • Cold

• Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• Going to the Academy Awards is something I remember since I was six, when I went with my mom for the first time, 14 with my dad, you know, and there I am, at 22, 23, whatever I was, sitting next to my mom. You know, and then again, there with my dad. Like, there's a beauty to it, and I care deeply about film history.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Time
  • Remember
  • History

• When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone.

  

  Ringo Starr The Beatles
  • People
  • Phone
  • Onstage

• I spent my life in the library reading books.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Library

• It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only.

  

  William Blake
  • God
  • Angels
  • Holiness

• Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

  

  George Pierce Baker