I.B. George Quotes

Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door.

Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images to look back at.

The proof of liberal virtue is generousity with other people's money.

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct.

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

The business world worships mediocrity. Officially we revere free enterprise, initiative and individuality. Unofficially we fear it.

Y'know, if those pews reclined, and the priests gave the Raiders scores I'd go to church every Sunday.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

A movie is never finished, only abandoned.

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.

Had I a hundred hands, I could employ them all. The harvest is very great. I am ashamed I can do no more for him who has done so much for me.

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

Don't tell 'em - SHOW 'em!

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

The miracles of Jesus were the ordinary works of his Father, wrought small and swift that we might take them in.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

You too can win Nobel Prizes. Study diligently. Respect DNA. Don't smoke. Don't drink. Avoid women and politics. That's my formula.

What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.

Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.

All love is original, no matter how many other people have loved before.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

Truth is a habit of integrity, not a strategy of politics.

In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

A ruin is not just something that happened long ago to someone else; its history is that of us all, the transience of power, of ideas, of all human endeavors.

Men are like bank accounts. Without a lot of money they don't generate a lot of interest.

I have nothing but respect for the purist who won't work for the pharaoh. But I'm not that strong.

My heart goes out to him. Sort of. Because empathy depends on how you've spent your day.

My dad worked in a very typical first-generation immigrant fashion - 24 hours a day for years.

Take back your picture in a frame. Take back your singing in the rain. I just hope you understand sometimes the clothes do not make the man.

Yet ["One More Try" ] really seemed to connect with people, which is a wonderful thing and a marvelous coincidence.

I have definitely reached the same level as Madonna in terms of sales. I'm really pleased about that.

The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

The most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor approximations, and premature conclusions.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve.

To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.

I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.