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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Home More Cage Natural Us

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Genius Common Sense Humanity Sense

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

History Events Bring Just Interpret

Naturally enough when I was a young dancer, I was terribly anxious to get ahead, and to get ahead quickly. I was impatient with all those older people who talked of the long grind to the top, who turned me down for jobs I knew I could do.

People Me Enough Long Down Grind

A fishnet is made up of a lot more holes than strings, but you can't therefore argue that the net doesn't exist. Just ask the fish.

Fish You More Ask Up Strings

I think a lot of women could be making great music but still don't feel like they're capable - in fact, I know that's the case for a lot of young girls who try to do music.

Women Music Great Think Feel Young

I don't want to be known as a serial entrepreneur. I like doing one thing at a time and making sure that gets my full attention until it's well established. I enjoy the initial years of a company because they are the most dynamic, and that is when I can give the best of myself.

Time Myself Best Doing Attention

I didn't really identify with the music of my own generation, but I was very curious about the music of others.

Music Curious Generation My Own Own

On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

Work Day You House Know Teach

Governmental surveillance is not about the government collecting the information you're sharing publicly and willingly; it's about collecting the information you don't think you're sharing at all, such as the online searches you do on search engines... or private emails or text messages... or the location of your mobile phone at any time.

Time Government Think Search You

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

Good Bad Place Order Act Things

Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

God Walk Satan Always Master Us

On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.

Christian Lous Lange

Limits Name Nationalism More Exist

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