George Evans Quotes

#1. A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

John Niven

#2. You give Europeans once again 'all benefits that they can eat', you make them work shorter hours, and you give more money, and they'd be back in a self-congratulatory, self-righteous mode; damned be the rest of the world.

Andre Vltchek

#3. George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children.

Jodie Evans

#4. The perfection of life with a gun dog, like the perfection of an Autumn, is disturbing because you know, even as it begins, that it must end. Time bestows the gift and steals it in the process

George Bird Evans

#5. Actually, I love golf clothes! I think this is the most interesting part of golf!

Nicolas Ghesquiere

#6. I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

George Bird Evans

#7. It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

M. Ward

#8. In a course of a lifetime, what does it matter?

Sharon Creech

#9. This operation is not being planned with any alternatives. This operation is planned as a victory, and that's the way it's going to be. We're going down there, and we're throwing everything we have into it, and we're going to make it a success.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#10. I didn't want to see George Hamilton playing me, I wanted the real thing.

Robert Evans

#11. If I'm not learning, check my pulse!

George Evans

#12. Even when a man and a woman perform equally well in a task - say, solving math problems - men are more willing to enter competitions based on that task. Men also show less risk aversion.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#13. Think the best of each other, especially of those you say you love. Assume the good and doubt the bad.

Jeffrey R. Holland