George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ScienceProblemCreatingMoreNever

I think it bespeaks a generous nature, a man who can cook.

Jilly Cooper

NatureManThinkCookWhoGenerous

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

Jesse Ball

FunnyTimeBeginningEndEdgeKind

I think that when we're talking about youth violence, we're talking about kids who don't have opportunities, so they're engaged in a certain degree of lawlessness, because we as a society have failed them.

Matt Gonzalez

YouthSocietyOpportunitiesThink

When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it. But then, of course, that didn't work out.

Amanda Seyfried

WorkSingingOutGotWork OutThen

I've always been a big fan of books.

Amber Benson

AlwaysBigBig FanBeenBooksFan

Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

Ambrose Bierce

SkillEqualLeftAblePickPocket

We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it's also even more important to be a good person, so that's what I learned.

Aly Raisman

GoodTimeWinningGood PersonPerson

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

Mary Steenburgen

PeopleMeActingWayMoreAct

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

Julia Phillips

PeoplePlaceHollywoodSoulsHoles

The early cyberpunk idea was that networked computers would let us do our work at home, as freelancers, and then transact directly with peers over networks. Digital technology would create tremendous slack, allow us to apply its asynchronous, decentralized qualities to our own work and lives.

Douglas Rushkoff

WorkHomeTechnologyComputersEarly

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

David Tudor

VoiceUniqueJustIdeaBasicShould

Wes Anderson is a perfectionist, so you have to just be ready to try it this way, try it this way, try it that way, and then try it this way. And then, once you think you've got it all and it's done, then you're going to be called back in two or three months so you can try it that way and try it this way. You've got to give him all of it.

Courtney B. Vance

ThinkYouBackReadyDoneThree

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