The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)
Tobias George Smollett
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DAVID MCCULLOUGH Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
HAROLD BLOOM Invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.” ~ Samuel John...
J.J. MCAVOY A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT And hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings they enjoy to guard.
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Thy spirit, Independence, let me share!
Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,
Thy steps I foll...
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
TOBIAS SMOLLETT I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern ...
TOBIAS SMOLLETT It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not fi...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous be...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Men may be rivals, opponents in their fortunes, and yet be friends in their hearts and fair towards ...
JANE WELSH CARLYLE During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoyin...
FRED ALLEN Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up...
ALI SMITH Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning...
GRANT MORRISON Despite the fact the studio looks out of five windows onto a picture perfect view of sky, hills and ...
DEBI GLIORI The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; an...
FRANCES WRIGHT I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, real...
STEVEN MOFFAT We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within th...
FRANCES WRIGHT The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the ene...
STEVEN MOFFAT The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity cont...
KEN MACLEOD To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to thr...
EDWARD M. HALLOWELL Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT Glory is the child of peril.
TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawc...
WILLIAM GODWIN Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature,
the oldest. The classic literatu...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
VAL KILMER Literature bores me, especially great literature
JOHN BERRYMAN Got that gun?” Peter says to Tobias. “No,” says Tobias, “I figured I would shoot the bullets...
VERONICA ROTH Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 [Dr. Johnson to a Q...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Tris," said tobias. "I love you
VERONICA ROTH Samuel Marshak was one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature. Soviet children ...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
EZRA POUND It is not certain whether the effects of totalitarianism upon verse need be so deadly as its effects...
GEORGE ORWELL Few of the great works of ancient Greek literature are easy reading.
GILBERT MURRAY A great speech is literature.
PEGGY NOONAN It says here, 'Williams, Wallace Reunite,' ... . . . It points out that I talked one-on-one with Geo...
MIKE WALLACE Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN George had such great courage on the ball,
BOBBY ROBSON I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work.
RICHARD MARQUAND In them we find administrators and teachers and counselors and leaders and protectors. In them we fi...
VERONICA ROTH In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids...
JUAN WILLIAMS The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
HUGH BLAIR The final measure of the greatness of all peoples is the amount and standard of the literature and a...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON He pitched good, not great. And if he doesn't give it up to Johnson, he pitches great.
CLIFF FLOYD Fourth, Tobias is a POLITICIAN?!?!?!? Four, the dauntless legend is a politician. Lame. Lastly, that...
AMAZON REVIEWER Long before the idea of a writer's conference was a glimmer in anyone's eye, writers learned...
FRANCINE PROSE Whoa there, Tobias," says the man to my left. "Weren't you raised a Stiff? I thought the most you pe...
VERONICA ROTH I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON Quoting Samuel Johnson: "Men know that ...
JAMES BOSWELL Great literature will insist upon its self-sufficiency in the face of the worthiest causes
HAROLD BLOOM It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMES It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HOMER ("SMYRNS OF CHIOS") It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature
HENRY JAMES All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.
CHARLES J. SHIELDS And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
BIBLE Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges
the patrimony of literature to its...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. P...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Would you like some more pancakes?" Annie asked. I could tell that Annie was a smart girl. I hate to...
MARJORIE WEINMAN SHARMAT Originally they wanted me to be Buster but I really like the Tobias part.
DAVID CROSS While we all respect Sam Johnson for his military record and have empathy for his past sufferings, t...
BOB JOHNSON Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, bu...
FRANCOISE SAGAN Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, bu...
F. SAGAN Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching.
BILL PULLMAN Good man! Genuine gentleman! God bless George Thompson, the great-hearted friend of my race.
SOJOURNER TRUTH ... I've talked one-on-one with George Bush, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Jack Kenned...
MIKE WALLACE I am not Tobias Eaton, not anymore, never again. I am Dauntless.
VERONICA ROTH I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great politica...
ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether...
IAN LUSTICK A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
FREDERICK THE GREAT OF PRUSSIA I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism wa...
GEORGE GALLOWAY A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certain...
H.L. MENCKEN A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certain...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
BASMAH BINT SAUD Great literature is simply charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.
MARGARET ATWOOD Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to ...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI George W. Bush is not only a great president; he was a great candidate.
ED GILLESPIE ...our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than u...
HELEN KELLER Learning why one great book is just like every other great book is the key to understanding literatu...
JOHN MOSCHITTA This agreement with Johnson & Johnson provides significant financial value and certainty for shareho...
JAMES CORNELIUS Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
EZRA POUND Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree
EZRA POUND If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
VERONICA ROTH I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib...
ROALD DAHL Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman o...
LENIN (VLADIMIR ULYANOV) Literature must become party literature. Down with unpartisan litterateurs! Down with the superman o...
VLADIMIR LENIN For our particular purposes, one of the things they get to do is study great literature in depth.
CARL MOORE I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
DOUGLAS SIRK I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.
VERONICA ROTH Like all Herondales, his ability to love without measure, without end, was both his great gift and h...
CASSANDRA CLARE this is mathematical speculation by a bunch of overcaffeinated theorists.
JORGE CHAM Mass is the property of objects that makes them resist changes in velocity. Simply
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A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT And hearts resolved and hands prepared
The blessings they enjoy to guard.
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Thy spirit, Independence, let me share!
Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,
Thy steps I foll...
TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
TOBIAS SMOLLETT I can't help suspecting, that there is, or may be some regurgitation from the bath into the cistern ...
TOBIAS SMOLLETT Some men are wise, and some are otherwise.
TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT Glory is the child of peril.
TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
TOBIAS G. SMOLLETT Vanessa Williams in person is like... the camera cannot capture how gorgeous this woman is! She is j...
JURNEE SMOLLETT I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.
JUSSIE SMOLLETT My absolute idols growing up were Michael Jackson and Prince, and so, to get the stamp of approval f...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT If you change because of fame, that's not the right thing. But if you change because of growth, ...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT I would love to do a song with Janet Jackson. Janet was, is, forever will be, the ultimate. She'...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT There are projects I've done, such as 'Queen,' where I played Halle Berry and Danny Glov...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT I don't throw around the word 'brother' because I'm so, so close to my real-life bro...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT When a television show like 'Scandal' becomes the biggest show in recent history, suddenly a...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT I went into a Whole Foods to buy chewable vitamin C and got tackled by, like, 15 girls who watch ...
JUSSIE SMOLLETT I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscio...
TOBIAS WOLFF There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a ...
TOBIAS WOLFF Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.
ANDREW TOBIAS I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings ...
TOBIAS WOLFF Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it.
TOBIAS WOLFF We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
TOBIAS WOLFF There's no such thing as altruism.
ANDREW TOBIAS I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a ...
TOBIAS WOLFF One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that th...
ANDREW TOBIAS I hope it will make them a lot more confident about money - and a lot less susceptible to foolish mi...
ANDREW TOBIAS I don't like the fact that he's given more money — up and down the Republican ticket —...
ANDREW TOBIAS It's complete freedom of expression, almost instant gratification, ... No two-month delay until your...
ANDREW TOBIAS You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.
ANDREW TOBIAS I have three sons, and the oldest wants to play pirates all the time. It has all these associations ...
TOBIAS LINDHOLM Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We...
TOBIAS LINDHOLM But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little...
TOBIAS WOLFF The Supreme Court has not directly faced the issue of whether 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegianc...
CARL TOBIAS It was difficult for me to think of another situation where a court has said this to the government.
CARL TOBIAS It's too early to tell. Some people believe that Roberts may be similar to Rehnquist in his jurispru...
CARL TOBIAS It's quite natural for mass tort cases to proceed under multidistrict litigation.
CARL TOBIAS It's quite natural for mass tort cases to proceed under multidistrict litigation,
CARL TOBIAS It might give them pause to think they might be sued and hauled into court.
CARL TOBIAS It was the intellectual elite of the conservative movement that expressed the most concern, not the ...
CARL TOBIAS If he had not testified, it seems likely the jury would have come in in his favor.
CARL TOBIAS She has tried as hard and she can to get this difficult case right, and then she is confronted with ...
CARL TOBIAS It is a strong endorsement. The question is: How relevant is it? Someone who was on the 3 rd Circuit...
CARL TOBIAS The government is going to lose a very good ruling to avoid having this go before the Supreme Court.
CARL TOBIAS At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex ...
TOBIAS HILL 'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His...
TOBIAS HILL While many are focusing on the infamous bankrupt entities as the primary culprits for the market los...
TOBIAS LEVKOVICH It's very difficult for Specter to thread the needle, because of all the obligations he has, ... The...
CARL TOBIAS I don't think anybody today sees a reason for a filibuster, but they may after the hearing if the an...
CARL TOBIAS It was a battle throughout. If one of those (shots) goes in, the rest of the game is very different.
DAN TOBIAS 'Rome' plays on universal human emotions that hopefully people can relate to. Historians are...
TOBIAS MENZIES Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I hav...
TOBIAS WOLFF This is very encouraging because it says that in mice we don't find any abnormalities, so then it is...
TOBIAS BRAMBRINK Right now it seems like the uncertainty would make senators more circumspect with Roberts.
CARL TOBIAS Specter is the key, and then it comes down to moderate Republicans and where we were in May.
CARL TOBIAS The tobacco industry has won some recent cases, and that Illinois case was a big one. But I think to...
CARL TOBIAS I want to be Brave, and Selfless,
and smart, and Kind, and honest.
TOBIAS EATON There are strong opportunities to be found in both Bulgaria and Croatia. You get twice the size of t...
TOBIAS JUST (Arizona assistant coach) Harold (Warren) said to me, 'She's a difference maker. (It's) just her pre...
DAN TOBIAS To what one person is cheap, to another is being prudent ... and I know people who'd rather not have...
BENJAMIN TOBIAS The general public absolutely treats (financial matters) too lightly.
BENJAMIN TOBIAS Negligence is much easier to prove; it's the failure to exercise reasonable care. Willful misconduct...
CARL TOBIAS It depends on how extensively she was involved in policy making in her five years in the White House...
CARL TOBIAS It's always unpredictable saying what the docket will look like in 10 years, ... It could be high-te...
CARL TOBIAS If powerful upward earnings estimate revisions have not been able to drive equity prices higher, we ...
TOBIAS LEVKOVICH That's where Rehnquist was at his most vocal, ... He was always willing to fight for an independent ...
CARL TOBIAS very articulate but sort of reserved, almost kind of shy. And so I think he is a very likable sort o...
CARL TOBIAS The question is, can they have their cake and eat it too?
CARL TOBIAS [The ground rules for asking and answering questions] are kind of ad hoc, ... they invoke the histor...
CARL TOBIAS The witness whose testimony was struck was their first and perhaps their strongest witness, and so t...
CARL TOBIAS I did all I could, but there was nothing more in there for me. I had light cramps in my arm. Of cour...
TOBIAS ANGERER Why were Jack and his brother digging post holes? A fence there would run parallel to the one that a...
TOBIAS WOLFF I was pretty shocked because he isn't really a small act in any way, so it was impressive to hear th...
BRANDON TOBIAS When you have a 6-11, 7-feet guy, almost 300 pounds, it is kind of hard for him to get up and down t...
BRANDON TOBIAS We beat them two years ago. We know we can play with Kentucky or any other high-powered team as long...
BRANDON TOBIAS You have to feel the mix and you have to feel the work and the sweet somehow which somebody is inves...
TOBIAS THOMAS Larger imports apparently more than compensate for production losses in the Gulf.
TOBIAS MERATH It seems as if we have re-entered the bizarre world in which every piece of news must be interpreted...
TOBIAS LEVKOVICH I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
TOBIAS WOLFF He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majo...
CARL TOBIAS This could expose Merck to substantial liabilities.
CARL TOBIAS The question is how high the liability shield needs to be. I think 'willful misconduct' is too high....
CARL TOBIAS The juries you draw in federal courts are more favorably inclined to institutional defendants.
CARL TOBIAS Sometimes you'll see a story about a kid like Billy on the news and wonder how nobody stepped in, ho...
TOBIAS WADE she was the perfect version of what she was. In life, that's all anyone can aspire to be
TOBIAS WADE When Marla didn't want to talk about something she always made sure her mouth was otherwise occupied...
TOBIAS WADE But the quickest way to a man's heart is also the quickest way to make him lose half his brain cells
TOBIAS WADE I should've just been happy I was getting my dick sucked. But sometimes curiosity outweighs our bett...
TOBIAS WADE Yet however trying they are, it's in these moments of deep sadness that I feel most like myself. I'v...
TOBIAS WADE Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that...
TOBIAS WOLFF Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish ...
TOBIAS HILL I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger o...
TOBIAS MENZIES I remember auditioning for 'Moulin Rouge!,' the part that Ewan McGregor played. I was so you...
TOBIAS MENZIES This is too much of a good thing, so there might be a correction that will occur.
TOBIAS JUST The best things in life are four letter words. Love, fuck, and free
TOBIAS WADE He anticipated an attack on him. I have a lot of respect for a judge who, presented with a difficult...
CARL TOBIAS Getting from La Jolla to Alta Vista State Hospital isn't easy, unless you have a car or a breakdown....
TOBIAS WOLFF Claire and McCall played every minute of every game last year, and that wasn't by chance. They deser...
DAN TOBIAS The good thing was we scored a goal first, they got the equalizer and we never gave up. Let me rephr...
DAN TOBIAS I wasn't too pleased with how we played after we scored. It's like we stopped supporting each other....
DAN TOBIAS We certainly did a good job for the first 20 minutes, but for whatever reason we just didn't play we...
DAN TOBIAS At this point in the season, it's the second half of conference play. The good thing about our group...
DAN TOBIAS This is a tough place to play. We are very pleased with coming away from this game with a win agains...
DAN TOBIAS And I learned that it's a bad idea to curse if you're in trouble, but a good idea to sing, if you ca...
TOBIAS WOLFF There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things...
TOBIAS WOLFF Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
TOBIAS WOLFF One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is tha...
ANDREW TOBIAS My father was a soldier. He was a frogman in the special forces in Denmark before I was born, and al...
TOBIAS LINDHOLM I don't know how she did it.
DAN TOBIAS Want! You must want something. What do you want?
TOBIAS WOLFF I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that d...
TOBIAS WOLFF I've allowed some of these points to stand, because this is a book of memory, and memory has its own...
TOBIAS WOLFF It was like fishing a swamp, where you feel the tug of something that at first seems promising and t...
TOBIAS WOLFF Happiness is endless hapiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.
TOBIAS WOLFF And in my heart I despised the life I led in Seattle. I was sick of it and had no idea how to change...
TOBIAS WOLFF I was giving up--being realistic, as people liked to say, meaning the same thing. Being reali...
TOBIAS WOLFF When we are green, still half-created, we believe that our dreams are rights, that the world is disp...
TOBIAS WOLFF We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That i...
TOBIAS WOLFF Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he’d ...
TOBIAS WOLFF I enjoy motivating the girls and just helping them achieve what they are capable of...reaching their...
KRISTY TOBIAS I may have April off and that's about it.
KRISTY TOBIAS There is a spirit component but the girls have to have a lot more skills.
KRISTY TOBIAS I feel it's more of a sport than it used to be.
KRISTY TOBIAS We're not trying to entrap motorists.
PRISCILLA TOBIAS The programs of these specific recipients were chosen because these are organizations that have exis...
RANDALL TOBIAS It's sad to see Munster come off the board, but at the same time it's nice to see people get up to s...
ROBIN TOBIAS I was hoping we could put two new faces (on the board). To end up in the majority, that's great.
TOBIAS PAQUETTE Great people talk about ideas. Small people talk about other people.
TOBIAS S. GIBSON I was chubby in high school. I used to go to my information technology class, and I would type reall...
TOBIAS JESSO, JR. I just like being as romantic as possible. I thrive off unrequited love. I've been in love in on...
TOBIAS JESSO, JR. It seems the government is somewhat vindicated.
CARL W. TOBIAS The Supreme Court has not directly faced the issue of whether 'under God' in the Pledge of Allegianc...
CARL W. TOBIAS There's a lot of pressure because of the concern there might be another terrorist strike in the Unit...
CARL W. TOBIAS Most people watching this litigation closely thought that Merck ought to win it. Despite the charact...
CARL W. TOBIAS It seems to me that it would be relevant to a person's case. I would expect the government to say th...
CARL W. TOBIAS Obviously I'm not the best singer; obviously I'm not the best piano player or the best songw...
TOBIAS JESSO, JR. 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