I.B. George Quotes

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

The status quo sucks.

Jesus was a cross-dresser.

So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence.

If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't trust any organization that has a handbook.

Marry an orphan: you'll never have to spend boring holidays with the in-laws.

For a long time, I've distinguished between entertainer and performer and entertainer and artist. To me, an entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself.

Know my feelings about traffic laws? Cop didn't see it? I didn't do it.

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough.

When I see a large group of people, I wonder how many of them will eventually require autopsies.

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

Besides the drugs and counterculture, I started talking about myself, which is the first thing you do when you are a writer.

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.

Exercise caution, as I have advised many people.

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance: and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.

Promise is most given when the least is said.

Let no man under value the price of a virtuous woman's counsel.

The happier you are, the more apt you are to make a prudent decision.

I don't believe in happy endings but I believe in happy journeys.

The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.

Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

Most of the time, I'm working in places I'm not familiar with. Sometimes it's Slovakia, and sometimes it's Hawaii. Not to bash on Slovakia, but I really did enjoy Hawaii.

I don't care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.

But monument themselves memorials need.

Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.

In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd.

To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

With eye upraised his master's look to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man: The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend, The only creature faithful to the end.

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.

I believe that music surpasses even language in its power to mirror the innermost recesses of the human soul

Music might be defined as a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

It is reassuring for people to feel they have a boss, someone who knows the answers and has charted the course.

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

It is undoubtedly true that some people mistake sycophancy for good nature, but it is equally true that many more mistake impertinence for sincerity.

The pen is a formidable weapon, but a man can kill himself with it a great deal more easily than he can other people.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.

I've seen a dead body, I've seen some pretty gruesome fist fights, I've been a hunter since I was a child, though I don't anymore, I've gutted wild game.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.