I.B. George Quotes
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
Most British statesmen have either drunk too much or womanised too much. I never fell into the second category.
The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways.
I think for me one of the big things was realizing that being Boy George is my job. It's what I do.
I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.
Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.
Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.
There is no escape if love is not there," Hannah had said. Had Hannah known when she herself had not even suspected? It was not escape that she had dreamed about, it was love.
All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit. When I take you on board the Witch, it's going to be for keeps.
Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.
The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront.
For every runner who tours the world running marathons, there are thousands who run to hear leaves and listen to rain and look to the day when it all is suddenly as easy as a bird in flight.
Why race? The need to be tested, perhaps; the need to take risks; and the chance to be number one.
We who run...are different from those who merely study us. We are out there experiencing what they are trying to put into words.
The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.
A lot of smart young people have come out of Indiana. The smarter they are, the faster they come out
A rolling stone gathers no moss and therefore will not be derided as a moss-back. Roll as much as possible.
If a man does not go about his work with enthusiasm, it means that he has not yet found a work that he likes. Every mortal is a busy bee when he comes to the task that Destiny has set aside for him.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.
Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.
The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous
The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.
Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!
Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.