I.B. George Quotes

There's a built-up tension in religion, and if you can release it, you'll get a huge and satisfying laugh.

I can't talk about Kathy [Jeung] anymore, because she doesn't want me to talk about her, and I'm not even sure that it's an ongoing relationship.

When someone is always going to be there for you. I meet people like that all the time, but I have this unfortunate attraction to people I think I have to fight to become friends with.

It's the ones who resist that we most want to kiss, wouldn't you say?

Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.

I probably owe an apology to fans that have been supportive and have not wanted to believe any of this was true. It takes a little bit of the sheen off of the mystique.

I wouldn't marry until I was ready to have children.

I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.

For a while I took Ecstacy when it was not very available over here. I took it simply because it made me feel that everything was wonderful.

I'm the luckiest writer on earth.

I've never done anything so political before. I've spent years shouting my mouth off about serious issues over dinner tables but never really had the confidence to express my views in a song.

There are many non-intellectual countries; Australia is one of the few anti-intellectual ones.

Oh this is reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied until we are brought to this.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.

The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity.

A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.

It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide.

The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.

The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty.

A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastructure.

If we don't get a grip on government spending, there will be no growth.

The British people think that if someone is disabled, then they should get all the care and support that we can offer.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

Before you get mugged by reality, take out an insurance policy. It's the Reagan way.

If somebody had made that [deal] to me when I was a businessman, I would have said he proposed to give me the sleeves from his vest.

There is no prospect that the United States will say to Israel, 'You do such and such and we'll not support you in your security.

Putting Americans at risk for a political reason I think is wrong and I think it's unfortunate.

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

It appears to me that strong sense and acute sensibility together constitute genius.

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.

The real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man.

When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.

They'll kill for that knighthood, but don't ever think they'll die for it.

Armor yourself in it, and it will never be used against you

Also there is a similitude of a Trinity shining in the body, soul and spirit.