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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Knowledge Child Want See Pursuit

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Women Walk Men War Said Land

I always felt like the Academy was very late in acknowledging things. I've seen them do it with hip hop when it should have been acknowledged. It was already penetrating mass levels of culture and radio, and yet they wouldn't give it a proper category.

Culture Late Always Radio Things

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.

Opinions You Call Going Even Fiery

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

Cooking Simple Job People Chef Feel

My ideal vacation isn't about complex maneuvers. I want to arrive somewhere foreign where I don't speak the language, go hiking, then plop down in a sunny square, have drinks, read a book, and see what happens.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Vacation Book Speak Language Down

I love food. I'm a big food person. I'm really passionate about eating good food all the time.

Love Good Time Food Good Food Big

I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.

Live Motto Amazing Chocolate Never

The best holiday I went on as a kid was to Disney World. I wore the same Minnie Mouse dress for 5 days straight and refused to go on any rides apart from It's A Small World. I think my parents wanted to kill me.

Poppy Delevingne

Best Dress Parents Me World Small

I had a vision of myself as a novelist because that was where I could be serious. I couldn't with music.

Music Vision Myself Serious Where

I don't believe in auditioning. I'm a bad auditioner. I don't like it.

Believe Bad Like Auditioning

I would like to do a sports movie.

Sports Would Like Movie

I kept having the producers of 'Fog in August' take out some of the Nazi terms and phrases. I don't want audiences to look at this doctor and say, 'He is a Nazi monster' and think that it has nothing to do with our lives today.

History Time Book Gift Actor Inside

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