G B Shaw Quotes

#1. Once undressed I felt less exposed. (...) Naked was my uniform. (...) There was no pressure to conform.

Aiden Shaw

#2. Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

George Bernard Shaw

#3. It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

Artie Shaw

#4. The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

George Bernard Shaw

#5. An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Irwin Shaw

#6. The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Some men see things as they are, and say, why; I dream things as they never were, and say, why not.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

Tommy Shaw

#10. I haven't stuck to any formula. Most great writers stick to the same style, but I wanted to be more various.

Irwin Shaw

#11. Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

Irwin Shaw

#12. Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.

Irwin Shaw

#13. Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth.

Jim Shaw

#14. You know you can't be a nice girl inside if you're a dirty slut outside

George Bernard Shaw

#15. The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

George Bernard Shaw

#16. There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. Ambrose managed to fight his way free long enough to shout, Am I the only ghost here doesn't know how to ghost?

Abigail Roux

#19. A radical shift in attitude happens in small steps. It's a transformation. A butterfly does a lot of walking and eating and growing before it finally forms a chrysalis and emerges with wings. It's not an instant transformation.

Rohvannyn Shaw

#20. Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

George Bernard Shaw

#21. Intelligence and common sense, what makes a person a real genius.

Wazim Shaw

#22. I was utterly without worldly ambition because I knew that all that was needed for a rich, full life was a few shillings a week with which to buy SF magazines and beer.

Bob Shaw

#23. The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

#24. I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

George Bernard Shaw

#25. The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.

William H. Whyte

#26. Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

George Bernard Shaw

#27. When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infrastructural hurdles to issues related to my credibility as a business woman. With no access to venture capital, money was scarce and high-cost, debt-based capital was all I had.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

#28. When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all.

Michael Moorcock

#29. This process was also used on beautiful daggers with bifurcated blades, which look ahead to the Old Kingdom forked instruments known as pesesh-kef used in the Opening of the Mouth funerary ceremony.

Ian Shaw

#30. I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

George Bernard Shaw