H. W. Shaw Quotes
I'm jealous of that time when you could afford lofts and survive on almost nothing. You can't do that anymore.
My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many ways including my pursuing a career as a brew master.
The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.
It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepreneur in India, because I partnered this Irish company in setting up India's first biotech company.
The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.
I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.
I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.
Reincarnation is, indeed, the key which unlocks all doors, the universal "combination," before which our manacles fall from our limbs -- the life-line by which the crooked way is made straight.
I love being in my kitchen. I'm quite a traditional cook, but I make a mean omelette. I'd like to open an omelette restaurant. Cheese and ham, chilli and mushroom, whatever you fancy, I'll rustle up.
I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.
Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.
I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.
I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.
I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.
In Garden Party or 40 Days and 40 Nights, I played characters who people dont necessarily like; I just find some humanity in them.
The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.
