I.B. George Quotes
50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.
Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.
I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.
Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.
It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.
The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.
Are you an Israeli? I don't debate with Israelis. I have been misled, sorry. I don't recognise Israel and I don't debate with Israelis.
It embarrasses me to think of all those years I was buying silk suits and alligator shoes that were hurting my feet; cars that I just parked, and the dust would just build up on them.
There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.
This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue.
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods.
A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.
War is rich old men protecting their property by sending middle class and lower class young men off to die. It always has been.
True optimization is the revolutionary contribution of modern research to decision processes.
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
To know you are one with what you are doing, to know that you are a complete athlete, begins with believing you are a runner.
Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.
Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.
As my career has progressed, I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest jazz cats on the planet. But that doesn't change my desire to entertain folks. That's really who I am.
Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.
We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.
First and foremost, I just want to give a huge thanks to the fans who have been behind me.
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.