I.B. George Quotes

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

I have a deep suspicion of social institutions and tradition in general.

There's absolutely no way that something I do on my own is going to be seen in Malaysia.

Obviously, [Wham!] made me a lot more comfortable as a musician. I was very confident that I would become a successful musician, but I had no idea I would be a celebrity.

The word that pisses me off - "prepubescent."

The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

I have two sisters. My father is Greek and comes from a family of seven. My mother is English and comes from a family of five.

It's really difficult trying to find the line where you don't piss anybody off.

There's something deep inside of me. There's someone else I've got to be.

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

I can't bear Catholicism.

You can have my credit card, baby, but keep your red hot fingers off of my heart, lady.

I just feel "One More Try" is better lyrically. "Careless Whisper" was written when I was 17 years old, and I had not really experienced anything that strong in my life, so it was a bit precocious.

I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.

Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.

I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.

We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

I lost my partner [Anselmo Feleppa] to HIV then it took about three years to grieve; then after that I lost my mother. I felt almost like I was cursed.

The English take everything with an exquisite sense of humour. They are only offended if you tell them that they have no sense of humour.

Rich people (in Australia) have swimming pools in their gardens but, at least, they do swim in them.

'I don't say a Zionist must be insane,' said President Weizmann, 'but it helps if he is.'

The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia; it never lived. Television did not kill it; there was nothing there to kill.

I have often thought that the aim of port is to give you a good and durable hangover, so that during the next day you should be reminded of the splendid occasion the night before.

Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this; it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.

The Americans are extremely gadget minded people and American gadgets have a peculiar characteristic: they work.

Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.

Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.

Nobody uses his car in New York, because so many people use it that traffic is congested and unbearably slow.

The country has always been governed by a coalition but today it is governed by a so-called Grand Coalition which is a more polite word for all and sundry.

Tel-Aviv airport is still the only airport in the world where each passenger is met by ten relatives.

I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

We would do well to ask why governments seem to find it so easy to raise the money required to wreck the biosphere, and so difficult to raise the money required to save it.

Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned.

How can you practice dancing in an airplane? There's a law against it.

Primary revelation came through Jesus Christ, and I find it distasteful that additional divine finger prints should appear in nature.

Some of my friends said, 'You are nuts.' But I think I am right.

We need a government that does not give in to a globalist agenda, an agenda I am now convinced seeks to bring American as a sovereign nation and the middle class to their knees.

You do something annual every year, don't you?

Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.

The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

At any given moment, there is a sort of all pervading orthodoxy, a general tacit agreement not to discuss large and uncomfortable facts.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity.