A Shaw Series Quotes

She talked to herself as she wrote. "Dark hair, about six four five, two-forty. Shoulders the size of Nebraska. Amazing blue eyes." She put down her pen. Amazing blue eyes?Where did that come from? ~ David Baldacci

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you. ~ George Bernard Shaw

As to spelling the very frequent word though with six letters instead of two, it is impossible to discuss it, as it is outside the range of common sanity. In comparison such a monstrosity as phlegm for flem is merely disgusting. ~ George Bernard Shaw

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift. ~ Tommy Shaw

I'm always yours, Rule. I will so totally marry you and it would make me happier than anything in the entire world to be an Archer. I don't need a ring or a speech. All I ever need is you. ~ Jay Crownover

Fate is bullshit. Destiny doesn't exist. If I want a happy ending, I'll have to write it myself. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. ~ George Bernard Shaw

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. ~ George Bernard Shaw

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it. ~ George Bernard Shaw

There have been two [career highlights]. Waking up in New York to hear I'd been nominated for Best Actor for a Tony Award on Broadway, for An Ideal Husband. The other one was waking up the morning after the opening night of A Man For All Seasons and reading the reviews. ~ Martin Shaw

I'm older now, I'm a man getting near middle age, putting on a little fat and I still love to walk along Fifth Avenue at three o'clock on the east side of the street between Fiftieth and Fifty-seventh streets, they're all out then, making believe they're shopping, in their furs and their crazy hats, everything all concentrated from all over the world into eight blocks, the best furs, the best clothes, the handsomest women, out to spend money and feeling good about it, looking coldly at you, making believe they're not looking at you as you go past. ~ Irwin Shaw

Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I like the intimacy of independent films and I like the idea that people aren't being paid necessarily as much money as some one on a studio film. ~ Kim Shaw

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately. ~ George Bernard Shaw

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody. ~ George Bernard Shaw

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride. ~ Fiona Shaw

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I realized that I wasn't naturally born to good taste. I understand what it is, but I am happy to wear bright colors. I do have a few items of black clothing, but I think good taste and doing the same thing over and over again is what the whole art world has become. ~ Jim Shaw

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. ~ Anna Howard Shaw

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Living in New York City, you have to keep trying to do a lot of things. ~ Caroline Shaw

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society. ~ Vinessa Shaw

There was a long period during which nearly every thinking man was in some sense a rebel. Literature was largely the literature of revolt or of disintegration. Gibbon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Shelley, Byron, Dickens, Stendhal, Samuel Butler, Ibsen, Zola, Flaubert, Shaw, Joyce - in one way or another they are all of them destroyers, wreckers, saboteurs. For two hundred years we had sawed and sawed and sawed at the branch we were sitting on. And in the end, much more suddenly than anyone had forseen, our efforts were rewarded, and down we came. But unfortunately there had been a little mistake. The thing at the bottom had not been a bed of roses after all, it was a cesspool full of barbed wire. ~ George Orwell

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity. ~ Caroline Shaw

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Light didn't conduct truth as once he'd thought. There was nothing you could do to preserve truth. Light was only of use as a metaphor for the ungraspable moment. ~ Ali Shaw

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it. ~ George Bernard Shaw