George Bernard Shaw Quotes

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MyselfI AmStrongBetterPerfect

You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.

Jimmy Smits

TimeCultureYouFindTrueSame

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.

Menachem Begin

LifeFamilySmileLoveBeautyTruth

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

Angela Ahrendts

ShoesYourselfThinkYouRight

Music is completely not reality. There's nothing about music that has any meaning at all. A lot of people disagree with that, but it's basically true. You can listen to a piece of music, and fifteen people will give you fifteen answers of what it's about.

Michael Bacon

MusicPeopleRealityMeaningYou

I lived in Dallas, and it's a big city, but you can jump on any freeway and drive in any direction for about 30 minutes and you are in the country - open space, wide open, very open, nothin' around.

Stark Sands

SpaceCityDriveDirectionYouJump

In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.

Rosecrans Baldwin

TravelDarkCandyWatchingOutFoot

If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. That's why I play. If I made it in New York, you can make it anywhere.

Jason Pierre-Paul

New YorkYouPlayNewWhyHere

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

Dennis Potter

BeautifulCreativeTherapyAnalysis

I was already committed to a play back in New York about Hans Christian Andersen, where Colleen Dewhurst was going to play my mother. I was excited about that, and I got this script called 'Back to the Future,' and I thumbed through it. Didn't pay a hell of a lot of attention.

Christopher Lloyd

MotherFutureNew YorkHellPlay

Writing 'Deathstroke' presents a number of challenges to me. As a Christian, as a minister, it's difficult for me to write a comic book that all but glorifies violence. So my take on 'Deathstroke' has been to not so much celebrate violence but to deal with the consequences of violence.

Christopher Priest

MeChallengesWritingCelebrateBook

Whereas in the past optimism had been regarded as rather shallow - because 'oh well, it's just your temperament, you happen to be just a cheerful sort of person' - what I wanted to do was to establish that in fact it is the pessimists who are allowing all kinds of errors to creep into their work.

Colin Wilson

WorkPastOptimismYouPersonWell

I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

GreatWritingThinkYouPlaceMake

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