I.B. George Quotes

If I get big laughs, I'm a comedian. If I get little laughs, I'm a humorist. If I get no laughs, I'm a singer.

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left

Life's but a day at most.

I like women to be attracted to me. See, when you get 60 years old, and they know you're 60, the only women you can get are 55-year-old women, and I like younger women.

It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.

Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.

Everyday happiness means you can't wait to come home, because the soup is hot.

Say Goodnight Gracie.

The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

The refusal of the British and Russian peoples to accept what appeared to be inevitable defeat was the great factor in the salvage of our civilization.

The patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.

Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.

I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.

If hush'd the loud whirlwind that ruffled the deep, The sky if no longer dark tempests deform; When our perils are past shall our gratitude sleep? No! Here's to the pilot that weather'd the storm!

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith. It is the Christian faith.

I believe with all my heart that the Church of Jesus Christ should be a Church of blurred edges.

In my time as Archbishop of Canterbury I've seen a growing sense of unity and mission.

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.

I see no room in holy Scripture for any sexual activity outside of matrimony.

And here at our Anglican Consultative Council, we have many reports of growth and great encouragement.

One I've been passionately committed to, of course, is women's ministry; I believe solidly in it as a Gospel issue and we've found our way through that.

The Israelis have suffered a great deal, we must condemn suicide bombers, and we must never say that the plight of the Palestinians justifies this terrible thing.

What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.

There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.

I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.

Hooray for most things!

One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.

If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.

I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school.

Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right.

If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance.

If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.

In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll.

Picture your grandmother in Hell, baking pies... without an oven.

Christians worship a dead Jew on a stick

When will all the rhetorical questions end?

There's some invisible guy, up in the sky, who can kill you, because he loves you.

Praying is begging for an unseen deity to alter the laws of nature for someone admittedly unworthy.

When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to.

The straightest line between a straight distance is two points.

A crumb is a great thing: If you break a crumb in half, you don't get two half-crumbs, you get two crumbs. Doesn't that violate some law of physics?

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

McDonald's breakfast for under a dollar is actually more expensive than that. You have to factor in the cost of bypass surgery.

I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case, end of report. Your birth certificate is proof of guilt.