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ETHEL MERMAN I've always been a very big fan of the show and when they stopped doing it, I was like, what happene...
ALICIA KEYS I've always been a very big fan of the show and when they stopped doing it I was like, what happened...
ALICIA KEYS Can you break my five-dollar bill into five singles? Women love guys with lots of money.
JAROD KINTZ It's the middle class that feels the luxury of being able to have causes.
ORSON SCOTT CARD In the past we have been primarily a running team, but this year we've had the luxury of being able ...
MICHAEL FIELDS Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personali...
IVY BAKER PRIEST Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We always try to show both sides of a point of view. We call leaders all the time asking them to com...
MOHAMMED ALAMI Dollar bill: people spend their whole life seeking to earn it, but won't spend 10 minutes seeking to...
ORRIN WOODWARD We can't stop the Declaration from being signed, but we can put a spin on it. We can say George III ...
JOHNNIE WALKER She's a phenomenal athlete and this year we're going to have the luxury of being able to keep her at...
LISA BLUDER A year ago I had the luxury of being able to project 90 percent of our lineup in the off-season.
FRANK CHUMBLEY I may not be perfect but I've always been true
I may not be worthy in your eyes
AVENGED SEVENFOLD Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury...
RACHEL TRUE How many crossroads are you allowed to have in life? I seem to have a lot of crossroads. I think may...
QUEEN LATIFAH The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons.
ROBERT MACNEIL Our shows are dedicated to a more narrow target of music, and although a lot of people show up, we k...
EVAN SIEGEL It's one of those games where you look at the box and see we had 12 hits and they had five. Carly (H...
KAREN KARCH From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a ...
KYLIE MINOGUE I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of bein...
MADELINE ZIMA For instance, we show holiday images with the kids using the portable camera and the printer. We sho...
CATHERINE PASCHKEWITZ I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON In the life of mathematics two plus two makes four; but in the mathematics of life two and two can m...
MUNIA KHAN That's a luxury that we're glad to have. Absolutely. That's great for the program, being able to bui...
BILL UNZICKER It will be like an old-fashioned radio show. Appalachia is a crossroads of music, especially African...
JEFF BIGGERS The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to ...
CHUCK BARRIS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are not being therapists at all, but we are listening for what is important in the story. (The st...
LYNETTE BULLARD This study clearly shows a significant positive impact on brand perceptions and purchase intent for ...
BONNY BROWN This study clearly shows a significant positive impact on brand perceptions and purchase intent for ...
DR. BONNY BROWN Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days...
TAYLOR SWIFT It will have all the news from Africa. We have music. We have a couple of talk shows. We have touris...
DIKEMBE MUTOMBO It is one of the museum's biggest shows of the year. In order to vividly reflect the luxury of this ...
LI FENG I have the difficulty and luxury of having five guys who could play one through five in the lineup. ...
ANDY JACKSON Without God there could be no American form of government nor an American way of life. Recognition o...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER We have a right to life, not on it.
DANIEL MELGAçO It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER The 'Work Hard, Play Hard' video shows how much a part of music the fans can really be. With...
TIESTO The success of those two shows, ratings-wise and monetarily, are mind-boggling. I mean, each show ha...
MERV GRIFFIN If you're a very picky person, you must be grateful for being able to live a life which allowed you ...
NIGHTINGALE DANIEL God has the capacity to look at the world through two lenses. When God looks at a painful or wicked ...
JOHN PIPER I feel like it's part of the deal in Class D basketball. We don't have the luxury of having five or ...
HEIDI DEERY I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by num...
CHESTER BENNINGTON Look at our station. We have two shows our 5 p.m. newscast has two female co-anchors and our 5:30 p...
BRIAN LAWLOR Look at our station. We have two shows — our 5 p.m. newscast has two female co-anchors and our 5:3...
BRIAN LAWLOR Look at our station. We have two shows our 5 p.m. newscast has two female co-anchors and our 5:30...
BRIAN LAWLOR I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
TRE COOL The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You get a little of everything ---- music, (theater) performances, storytellers, arts and crafts han...
COLLEEN FINNEGAN We have been able to rush the football. Each week we play, we hope to show improvement. The last two...
BRUCE MATTHEWS You don't need to investigate too far to find corruption. After only two or three months in power, o...
DIMIEARI VON KEMEDI We believe that we're really in danger of losing at least two or three teams. And this is the whole ...
LARRY PENDLETON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be ...
JOHN RIDLEY Wish I could, through my own financial prestidigitation, transform a dollar bill into two, or two mi...
MICHAEL IAN BLACK They have gone out of their way to be as punitive as possible. I still do not believe Ms. Oliphant h...
HENRY HUNTER I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decad...
PETER ASHER The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And...
CHUCK BARRIS We have suspended five employees including three branch managers and issued show cause notice to 15 ...
ABDUR RAQUIB Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all no...
LEVAR BURTON When the true history fades, ask education and the unbiased story tellers
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Peter Marshall: In one state, you can deduct $5 from a traffic ticket if you show the officer...what...
PAUL LYNDE This shows the Iraqi military is coming back and it's one more step toward them being able to protec...
DOUG NELSON We have been able to show in a study that apes can draw conclusions from their physical environment.
JOSEP CALL We have a market all of a sudden. The downside is, we don't have product. It's not fun not being abl...
GARY LINDEN The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL Romanes eunt domus
LIFE OF BRIAN Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.
GEORGE ELIOT We have to prepare the students physically to build up their endurance and music ability to play mus...
ANDREW YARACS I think President Clinton would have liked to have traveled a lot in early '93 and reconnect with pe...
CHARLIE COOK I think President Clinton would have liked to have traveled a lot in early '93 and reconnect with pe...
CHARLIE COOK There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for tre...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ In general music has become more topical over the last few years even on albums that are mostly batt...
SEAN ROSS I love HGTV. I love working on my house and have really been bit by the 'luxury remodeling' ...
LAZ ALONSO Roses are red, Violettes are bllue,
Valentines day is consumerous crap,now don't you have ironi...
MOCK OF THE WEEK THE SHOW You have to scream really loud and really compel the audience to choose your show over the array of ...
DAVID JANOLLARI 'A Prairie Home Companion' has proudly had its roots in St. Paul since the inception of the show. Th...
JOHN RASH The merged entity will take on performances of both groups, so we will be able to do one or two more...
JEFF SHUE We have two shows to allow families with small children an opportunity to celebrate the new year in ...
TAMARA DOOR Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.
ASHLY LORENZANA Without music, life would be meaningless. -Jay Vin Foong
JAY VIN FOONG Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympi...
AJAY NAIDU In a direct fertility testing situation, we can show that two-thirds of smokers have lost some or a ...
LANI BURKMAN I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for bes...
RITA MAE BROWN Every year there's five cop shows, five medical shows and five 'Law & Orders,' but w...
BONNIE SOMERVILLE They have to plan and present a product, and they have to consider things like music, materials and ...
EMILY LESLIE May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We bridge the music industry together with fans who have terminal diseases to help change their dail...
SCOTTIE SOMERS Life is a bowl of cherries. Some cherries are rotten while others are good; its your job to throw ou...
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GEORGE OLIPHANT Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing...
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PAT OLIPHANT One-newspaper towns are not good because all the surviving newspaper does is print money. They make ...
PAT OLIPHANT If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times,...
PAT OLIPHANT I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
PAT OLIPHANT Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
PAT OLIPHANT Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the ...
PAT OLIPHANT We're all idealistic when young.
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PAT OLIPHANT I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
PAT OLIPHANT I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as...
PAT OLIPHANT I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken aw...
PAT OLIPHANT So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They ...
PAT OLIPHANT I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
PAT OLIPHANT There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
PAT OLIPHANT The fact that we're protected under that Constitution in exercising the right of free speech, it...
PAT OLIPHANT An outsider's point of view is always handy.
PAT OLIPHANT To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.
MARGARET OLIPHANT The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words....
MARGARET OLIPHANT Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.
MARGARET OLIPHANT It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of...
MARGARET OLIPHANT For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give...
MARGARET OLIPHANT Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
MARGARET OLIPHANT As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always ...
MARGARET OLIPHANT There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably dont need one. It is far more important to be a...
MATTHEW OLIPHANT I don't think there is a proper way to celebrate something which makes you happy.
MATTHEW OLIPHANT What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
MARGARET OLIPHANT I lost my hair mixing a substance called white gunpowder on the kitchen table.
MARK OLIPHANT Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind
MARGARET OLIPHANT At first, I always make it a point to give in to the prejudices of society. That is how I have alway...
MRS. OLIPHANT The village lay in the hollow, and climbed, with very prosaic houses, the other side. Village archit...
MRS. OLIPHANT Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
MRS. OLIPHANT As Sandy and his wife warmed to the tale, one tripping up another in their eagerness to tell everyth...
MRS. OLIPHANT I'm glad I didn't have to do it. It looked like a lot of paperwork and stuff like that.
RICHARD OLIPHANT Correct me if I'm wrong - the gizmo is connected to the flingflang connected to the watzis, watzis c...
PATRICK B. OLIPHANT 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 Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT