FastSaying

We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I'm not trying to look for excuses but that's the reality.


George Boateng

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Man, I came back (Thursday) and must've spent an hour and a half looking for it. But no luck.
EDDIE ROBINSON It used to be that you would hunt on the weekends. Nowadays, we love it so much and it's our little ...
BRIAN GLENN Audiences are so much more sophisticated than they've ever been. They expect a lot more. I don&#...
MAGGIE Q It took us about half the year, but now they know their roles and are feeling comfortable with each ...
DENIS FREEMAN Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you’re searching, ...
J.K. ROWLING Our practice (Thursday) night definitely was the reason why we played so well tonight. We were lacki...
ABIGAIL LAROSA We havent broken it down, ... When we met with (Johnson), thats not what she wanted. We opted not to...
BETH PAYNE After Monday night, the gas tank was half-empty coming in here. I think we chipped away at a few poi...
TIM WALKER It costs over $19 an hour to operate those centers, if people rent those out they rent them for $25 ...
SCOTT DEUBNER The Soviet Union has indeed been our greatest menace, not so much because of what it has done, but b...
J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT I thought George threw a lot of things defensively at us that took us a while to adjust to. Our leag...
JAMIE RAINS I spoke to one of his advisers on Thursday who said don't look for anything beyond a sort of tepid '...
TUCKER CARLSON It's not the time to look for excuses.
RAFAEL NADAL Let’s not look for excuses to our laziness- but let’s have a faith that we are able to do EVERYT...
SVETLANA SHCHEDRINA | LUCKYOPTIMIST Wars are not fought on the training ground, nor can they be covered from a TV studio. They are not r...
BOB SCHIEFFER We stayed calm. They did a nice job on us in the first half. It took us a while to adapt, but we eve...
JAY CORBY I think we were trying to do too much in the first half, and in the second half we let the game come...
ANDREA REED It took me half an hour to get over to those rocks.
HARRY WANTULOK The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life i...
ERICA JONG The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is...
ERICA JONG We got going and came out really strong in the first half, and thats what we needed to do. But once ...
EVA LANG We took a different squad (Thursday). We wanted to get a closer look at a few players.
KIPP SCHREINER Helio [Castroneves] and I are starting towards the front, so hopefully we can work together and real...
DANNY LASOSKI The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER We got off to a great start but just kind of stubbed our toe when they went to that zone defense. Th...
CHARLES SMITH Thursday night football is here to stay. So we're looking at ways to make it safer. Now they'...
JOHN MADDEN If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that's a big honour so I spend half an...
TIMOTHY F. CAHILL I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.
MELISSA MCCARTHY We try to exploit weaknesses and look for traps. It might not show up in the first half or early in ...
AMY MAHLUM We held hands and it took about an hour and a half for his blood to enter my system. His blood cells...
KEVIN HEARN At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t...
GAIL CARRIGER The main thing (we were thinking in the first half) was that we could beat them and that they weren'...
SHAN FOSTER We needed to get going and get warmed up. I wouldn't say we were so much nervous, but it took us som...
JAREICA HUGHES Would a minute have mattered? No, probably not, although his young son appeared to have a very accur...
TERRY PRATCHETT What worries me is that we've had three games that are stinkers. We didn't look good against Milwauk...
PHIL GARNER Flight and ground systems are go. We're looking for a successful launch on Thursday.
DOUG LYONS We sat down with the wedding chapel manager and she spent an hour and a half with us. We looked at t...
JEN HUDSON I tried to milk the lead in the second half and it almost cost us. I wanted us to run at least 45 se...
DAN DONAWITZ It's a bunch of cool things that look huge on a small stage but it's exciting for the kids because i...
MATT SHADOW I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy...
MICHAEL J. FOX In the first half, they were quicker to every loose ball. They just outworked us. We dug ourselves s...
BRETT NORRIS They were beat up and pretty tired. They contributed that first night, but not like they have for th...
DOUG APLIN When Gerard took over, he was trying to get us back on track, but he was also trying to ease our pai...
LUKE RICHARDSON The sixth man. They've been there for us all year. We wanted them to run on the court with us but th...
GARRETT WILLIAMSON I had not played much against them, especially the Test Cricket but they are well acquainted to the ...
IRFAN PATHAN It's a great way to spend an hour and a half. It's not so much that it will make you a better person...
JAMES ROE Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much usefu...
NEIL GERSHENFELD Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covere...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The communications delays between Earth and Mars can be half an hour or more, so the people on the g...
HENRY SPENCER we are all trying to fit in our own way like the stars that shape the night sky, but how much we are...
TARUN PANDEY The first half was a little bit of a disappointment; they really took it to us. They were giving us ...
DOUG LIGHT Whatever false sense of security the contraption had once offered us was gone. Each time we left, ev...
JOHN GROGAN We played with so much intensity in the first half. But in the second half we just got less aggressi...
BRITTANY BELL He always gets us ready to play. He's great in these big games. I'm sure he'll have something for us...
JOE STELLMACHER We had been up about 500 tickets sold per performance and we were down Thursday night. The tornado w...
BILLY POWELL It will be a nice, little Christmas, just the four of us. We just got the tree up and the decoration...
MASI MARJAMAKI We started slow and it took some floor time to get started, but we came out hot in the second half a...
MARK SIVERLY We've got to respond. Championship teams are defined not so much on how they win, but how they deal ...
BRYAN SHELTON It was awkward. We didn't know what to say to each other. We went to the park for a half hour. We as...
LAVANYA MURUGESAN To be down 11 at halftime (Thursday) and come out and play so well to start the second half - we hav...
BEN HOWLAND to know a piece of grass, you’ve got to see the ground that grew it. Maybe that’s why I remember...
ALLY CARTER We told the kids at half-time that we could do a lot more than we were doing. We had some turnovers ...
BLAIR PHILBRICK It is a tradition that is done on Thursday night. It is what everyone looks forward to.
LINDSEY MOORE We just came out with so much intensity in the first half. We just came in and took care of business...
GERALD WALSH I enjoy watching sitcoms where the team behind it have successfully created a whole alternate realit...
SIMON BIRD They are the quickest team we have faced this year, and it caused us a lot of problems in the first ...
DAVE BEZOLD In the second half, we were able to use more of the field and get our offense going. It's our second...
MARKUS ROEDERS There are bad times, but thats okay, just look for the love in it, don't burn the day away.
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND It was hard coming in here after just playing on Thursday. We played hard but we got a little tired ...
LAVONDA WAGNER aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr...
RAJA Yeah, there were (defensive) breakdowns but there were also variables into having those breakdowns. ...
GERRY FLEMING One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta...
MICHIO KAKU Within a half-hour, we can tell whether the aspirin is the correct dose for you -- is it too much or...
DR. SABINA WALLACH We're leaving on Wednesday, so that gives us all day Thursday to go to practice and sit around. By t...
WENDEE SAINTSING The guys came out fired up. They knew Rossville had a chance to tie us for the conference if we let ...
DAVE BARRETT There's a sense of urgency on both contracts with looming deadlines Thursday night for Boeing, and e...
DAN SCOTT He told us Thursday he felt some fatigue, and we really don't know much specifically beyond that.
DAVE LITTLEFIELD I don't know if it was too much sun or whether the players took it for granted. We know we're not go...
BRYAN MURRAY We just didn't feel like ourselves out there. We had so much fire when we beat North Dakota, but we ...
KAYLA RENGEL That's the part that people find difficult, facing the reality that if they want to save, they need ...
GERARD POORE Charity consists not so much on HOW MUCH WE GIVE to the person but on HOW MUCH WE KEEP FOR OURSELVES
GREGORY RAMKISSOON Acid was kind of a thing that was done on the day off. We took one trip, got in four or five cars an...
DAN HICKS Sometimes it may not look like we have much of an offensive game plan, but we are a half-court, moti...
BRIAN NORBERG i can go on all day pretending to be happy an fooling the world and leave you wondiring when im gone...
AMBER FAITH HUN The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
ELIZABETH BIBESCO President Bush had an opportunity tonight to say, 'Look ... things aren't going very well in Iraq an...
MIKE MCCURRY They took it to us in the first half.
BRAD STILES This was a huge win for us tonight. We came in with the expectation of getting three points and we a...
BRIAN CHING We played very good team defense, especially in the first half, but on offense it was just the big t...
GARY GIANCOLA I really concentrated on ways to look fabulous but covered,
ELIZABETH HURLEY We were all hoping for Michelle still yet to come, but you know, Sarah Hughes skated to win [Thursda...
DOROTHY HAMILL Definitely! It didn't feel good (Thursday) night getting honorable mention, but that's just motivati...
CASEY MOORE We took a lot of good shots in the first half, but they just weren't going in. We played better defe...
DUDLEY ETHERIDGE He was too much for us. He dribbled and passed, posted up and drove. He doesn't look like he's big [...
JIMMY COLLINS Not only do we deliver the newscast every 20 minutes and half an hour, but we also have interviewees...
VIRGINIA GARCIA But it was logical that we won and had the match been played in the United States, it would not have...
BOB BRYAN We hit on Monday, but that was it because there's no roof (on the batting cage). We couldn't take gr...
COREY ISHIGO You don't have any strategy after that. All you're trying to do is hang on. That penalty wasn't real...
DARRIS KILGOUR

More George Boateng

He motivated all of us, he said we have nothing to lose, just go out and enjoy it.
GEORGE BOATENG I think before the game if you'd said 1-0 we would have taken it. It could have been better, but we'...
GEORGE BOATENG We are not mentally tired, although physically we might be a bit. This will be our Cup final, not ou...
GEORGE BOATENG It's a very big game for us for many reasons. Local pride is at stake.
GEORGE BOATENG Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collectio...
OZWALD BOATENG I'm ready to do womenswear. You've always got to be inspired by something new - women have s...
OZWALD BOATENG I love Coco de Mer.
OZWALD BOATENG Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
OZWALD BOATENG I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called M...
OZWALD BOATENG I have my fashion empire to build.
OZWALD BOATENG You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of vi...
OZWALD BOATENG I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggera...
OZWALD BOATENG Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn...
OZWALD BOATENG If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired y...
OZWALD BOATENG I had a suit made for me when I was five. It was double-breasted, mohair and purple. My mother was v...
OZWALD BOATENG In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lo...
OZWALD BOATENG Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion...
OZWALD BOATENG If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that...
OZWALD BOATENG I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it...
OZWALD BOATENG My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
OZWALD BOATENG When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the...
OZWALD BOATENG Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look...
OZWALD BOATENG Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend...
OZWALD BOATENG When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed...
OZWALD BOATENG I'm so emotional. And I'm also happy because now I'll be able to say to my grandchildren: 'I was the...
SYLVIA BOATENG Those who hate something always comes accross that thing.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG One of the most difficult things in the world is remembering all your friends name from childhood to...
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Please try not to be condemmed by a lazy person,for a lazy person is like a rotten body.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Life is a race but it is not the matter of rushing.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG People who always think twice are the people who solve things easily.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Many people live in world,but few of them knows something about the world.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG The present generation is blind of the future generation
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG The most painful feeling is to explain things to a fool.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG I pitty the next generation,knowledge is gradually fading from the world.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Please show me how i can unlock my brain. Well its so simple, you got the key yourself,because you l...
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Friends will ask you,how far with your life,not because they are willing to aid you,but rather some ...
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG GIVE YOUR HEART TO A LADY,AND SHE KILLS YOUR DREAM,DESTROY YOUR HEART AND BRAIN,SO YOU CANNOT EVEN H...
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Aims are the guidelines to our success!
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Keep on looking up,because there is always a way to fly!
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Why should i cry?why should i loose hope?why should i not have faith,when i still believe there is s...
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG I will only be a failure if i live the dream of others!
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG Never rejects your feelings,accept your feelings and follow them.
BENJAMIN KUSI BOATENG It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br...
GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon.
GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.
GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ...
GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.
GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
GEORGE SANTAYANA Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradicti...
GEORGE SANTAYANA People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they...
GEORGE CARLIN I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles, and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. ...
GEORGE TAKEI 'Mad Men' is nothing more than the fulfillment of every possible stereotype of the early 196...
GEORGE LOIS I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
GEORGE CARLIN True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and ye...
GEORGE ELIOT Electricity is really just organized lightning.
GEORGE CARLIN Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
GEORGE CARLIN I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right...
GEORGE LUCAS I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within you...
GEORGE STEVENS The influence of 'Hidden Fortress' comes up a lot because it was printed in a book once. The...
GEORGE LUCAS Getting rid of the dictator is only a first step in establishing a free society. The dictatorship mu...
GEORGE AYITTEY We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,...
GEORGE SANTAYANA I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gat...
WALLY GEORGE I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
WALLY GEORGE I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, ma...
GEORGE GROSZ I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
INARA GEORGE I think a show is for fun, and the thing about playing live is that you make mistakes, and that'...
INARA GEORGE I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A l...
INARA GEORGE The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.
GEORGE SANTAYANA We must bring unity of spirit and purpose and condemn hatred and division wherever we see it.
GEORGE OSBORNE In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political iss...
GEORGE ORWELL I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of a...
GEORGE WASHINGTON The status quo sucks.
GEORGE CARLIN The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.
GEORGE SEWELL Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
GEORGE GISSING The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r...
GEORGE ORWELL It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS Praise the bridge that carried you over.
GEORGE COLMAN We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al ...
GEORGE TENET In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and eve...
GEORGE GURDJIEFF Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
GEORGE MCGOVERN Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.
GEORGE CARMAN May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
GEORGE CARLIN Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every libera...
GEORGE MASON Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
GEORGE WHITEFIELD The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
GEORGE MILLER All art is dependent on technology because it's a human endeavour, so even when you're using...
GEORGE LUCAS No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.
GEORGE CHAKIRIS The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come ...
GEORGE ELIOT Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. Th...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS It's better if you have a strong opinion on any talk show.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and als...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I learned everything about fashion during my time at the 'NY Times.'
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For proper family portraits it's best to stick with classic, timeless looks that will not only b...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS The weight of a fabric is inconsequential, since seasonal dressing is all about layering.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS For slaves to fashion, the rules are made to be broken.
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS Photos convey a point in time, so for casual snapshots I say wear the trends so you have fun images ...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS I like to spend Christmas with family and friends, pigging out, exchanging gifts and basically doing...
GEORGE KOTSIOPOULOS People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations ar...
GEORGE AIKEN Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.
GEORGE WALD Dictators cause the world's worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated eco...
GEORGE AYITTEY Sanity is madness put to good use.
GEORGE SANTAYANA The first sign of real obsession with music was with an old wind-up gramophone that mum had thrown o...
GEORGE MICHAEL There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
HENRY GEORGE Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pay...
GEORGE GALLUP Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually l...
GEORGE ORWELL If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a cr...
GEORGE ORWELL When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
GEORGE ORWELL Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha...
GEORGE ORWELL Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL