Top 25 George Bernard Shaw Food Quotes
#2. I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary ... So long as I've learned something about why.
Alberto Giacometti
#3. It is to these two discoveries by Bradley that we owe the exactness of modern astronomy ... This double service assures to their discoverer the most distinguished place (after Hipparchus and Kepler) above the greatest astronomers of all ages and all countries.
Jean-Baptiste Joseph Delambre
#4. And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass
Ezra Pound
#5. The seven deadly sins ... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
George Bernard Shaw
#6. I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
John Steinbeck
#8. I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.
Steve Reich
#11. Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. Malone: Me father died of starvation in Ireland in the black 47. Maybe you've heard of it.
Violet: The Famine?
Malone: No, the starvation. When a country is full o food, and exporting it, there can be no famine.
George Bernard Shaw
#15. trust me you will never remember this day. When you grow up, you will probably never be friends with the people that are sitting next to you today.
Patrick Allen
#16. Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy
Mike Johanns
#17. [I]n my own case at least I feel my professional need for freedom of speech and expression prejudices me toward a government whose constitution guarantees it.
John Updike
#18. I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.
Miller Williams
#20. the soul said, "Is this what you think it means to be human?
C. G. Jung
#21. The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
George Bernard Shaw
#23. Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
George Bernard Shaw
#24. It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never.
Yann Martel
#25. Be bold, but wary! Keep up your merry hearts, and ride to meet your fortune!
J.R.R. Tolkien
