Hester Shaw Quotes

It would be best to stride in with a cheer "hello!", but she wasn't the cheery sort; she was the "lurking in dark corners" sort. She found a dark corner, behind the Stalker-cases, and lurked. ~ Philip Reeve

To be a champion you must live like one. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste. ~ George Bernard Shaw

So she was what Hester called a 911 Christian: in the event of an emergency, call the Lord. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Boasting about modesty is typical of the English. ~ George Bernard Shaw

This souls'prison we call England. ~ George Bernard Shaw

After a long while he sat upright with great effort, exhaled a sigh and reached for a clean sheet of lined paper, smoothing it out on the desk. He unscrewed the lid of his fountain pen, laid it perpendicular to his paper, and began to write. Often he compared his writing to white water. He had only to leap in to be dragged away on its rapids, thrown this way and that with his own will rendered impotent. While writing he found the words came from the muscles in his hands, the feel of the shaft of his pen, the locked joint of his elbow. the scratching noise of the nib marking paper and, underneath all that, some coordinating impulse in his guts. Certainly not from his mind. ~ Ali Shaw

In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that. ~ Irwin Shaw

I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it? ~ Artie Shaw

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to). ~ George Bernard Shaw

Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have your way with it. This wrestling, sinewy and particular as its wrestler, enlarges us as we read our way into her life with its incisive insights and explorations. Can one wrestle meditatively? This author has learned the art and we are the benefactors. ~ Luci Shaw

Maybe he'd never come across anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to work with whatever was at hand. Over the years I'd learned to pinpoint my focus to the width of a pubic hair if there was nothing else to work with. (...) Before my eyes -or, more precisely, in my mind- Rasher became Lovely Bum Man. ~ Aiden Shaw

I'm getting high on the scent of her, when she says, "We're home."
If I'd been standing, her words would have brought me to my knees. ~ Michelle Hodkin

Liberty is the breath of life to nations. ~ George Bernard Shaw

This process was also used on beautiful daggers with bifurcated blades, which look ahead to the Old Kingdom forked instruments known as pesesh-kef used in the Opening of the Mouth funerary ceremony. ~ Ian Shaw

Dance music-as I keep saying, you can dance to a windshield wiper ... a windshield wiper that's fairly steady gives you a beat and all you need is an out-of-tune playing 'Melancholy Baby' and you've got dance music. ~ Artie Shaw

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. ~ George Bernard Shaw

It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Law is never so necessary as when it has no ethical significance whatever, and is pure law for the sake of law. The law that compels me to keep to the left when driving along Oxford Street is ethically senseless, as is shewn by the fact that keeping to the right answers equally well in Paris; and it certainly destroys my freedom to choose my side; but by enabling me to count on everyone else keeping to the left also, thus making traffic possible and safe, it enlarges my life and sets my mind free for nobler issues. Most laws, in short, are not the expression of the ethical verdicts of the community, but pure etiquette and nothing else. What they express is the fact that over most of the field of social life there are wide limits within which it does not matter what people do, though it matters enormously whether under given circumstances you can depend on their all doing the same thing. ~ George Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Funny how people consider those who commit suicide to be cowards. I don't. They're the brave ones. They're the ones who are able to stand up and say enough is enough. They're the ones who're able to do something about the hatred they feel for their own lives. I'm envious of them. ~ Matt Shaw

England and America are two countries separated by the same language. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard. ~ George Bernard Shaw

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming. ~ George Bernard Shaw

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. ~ George Bernard Shaw

She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

With sex scenes and intense scenes, in general, a lot of it is preparation before the scenes happen, so that you don't have to worry about it on set. ~ Vinessa Shaw

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist. ~ George Bernard Shaw

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death. ~ 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

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms. ~ Caroline Shaw

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven. ~ George Bernard Shaw

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation. ~ George Bernard Shaw