George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Topics

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We are going to make every effort to have a transparent administration.

Joao Lourenco

EffortTransparentGoingMakeEvery

I've always had pop-star crushes. I had a huge crush on Ian Brown.

Maxine Peake

AlwaysCrushBrownCrushesHadHuge

Part of life is to live it, and enjoy it, and seize the moments that you find particularly pleasing.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

LifeLiveEnjoyMomentsYouFind

Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.

Michael Gove

LearningChildrenCultureEmpathy

There are two worldviews in thriller writing: the paranoid view, like Chuck Logan's, that everything is inside a large clockwork. I like those books; they're intricate and thought out, but my view is that everything is chaotic and stupid. Chaos reigns, and civilized people do what they can to hold it back.

John Sandford

PeopleChaosWritingStupidThought

When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description.

Amy Chua

FamilySchoolParentsAmazingMom

Teens have a sensational narcissism and genuinely believe that their experiences are unique and can't be explained to adults. But we forgive them for their mistakes and naivete.

Stephanie Savage

MistakesBelieveUniqueNarcissism

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Tori Amos

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Jesus' love for His children continues to be the greatest love story of all time.

Monica Johnson

LoveChildrenTimeStoryGreatest

The perverse presumption that places the burden of proof on the challenger of spending must be inverted, back to the rule that applies elsewhere in life: 'Prove to me why we should.'

Mitch Daniels

LifeMeBackBurdenWhyProve

Hand in hand with nationalist economic isolationism, militarism struggles to maintain the sovereign state against the forward march of internationalism.

Christian Lous Lange

ForwardMarchHandStrugglesAgainst

When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.

Brian Eno

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