I.B. George Quotes
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.
It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
I worked in a barbershop. I used to make the waves in the brother's hair, you know? Like, Nat King Cole, Sugar Ray Robinson.
I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.
The words I use too often are X-rated, something an old man like me shouldn't be talking about anyway.
Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either rip you off or get you out of the way in five years to make way for the new groups.
A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as forThy laws Makes it and th'action fine.
You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.
It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.
No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
I am well convinced that Aerial Navigation will form a most prominent feature in the progress of civilization.
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.
The life and fellowship of the church is to be a foretaste of life in the Kingdom of God.
It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.
I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
Law enforcement officials cannot place themselves above the law that they are sworn to defend.
I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my family, and to God, and to life, and I was scared.
International exchanges are not a great tide to sweep away all differences, but they will slowly wear away at the obstacles to peace as surely as water wears away a hard stone.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.
