I.B. George Quotes

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

I'm always tweeting about food and things that I've made.

You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.

I exercise. I go to the gym every day. It's about respecting what you're doing. You're going on stage. You have to sleep. You have to be prepared.

For me, touring is about looking after myself.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

In writing the autobiography, I can really chuckle when I look at the songs. I was acting out the part. I saw myself as a victim.

My God is better than your God

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.

Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.

Leigh [Bowery] would make up stories about people committing suicide or going on hunger strikes because they were refused entry at the door.

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

I always feel that my whole life is representing the LGBT community. It's kind of what I do all the time.

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

Leigh [Bowery] would create fake guest lists and put the most ridiculous names on them - Joan Collins, or really naff soap stars who would never grace the door of Taboo.

As a kid, I would've loved to get a tweet from David Bowie or Joan Rivers or Tom Cruise. It's great that you can communicate with people and it's instant.

A difficult crowd will always test your true ability.

I'm not responsible enough to have a dog - or a child.

I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.

Certain punk bands were influential because I thought, If they can do that then I can .Hanging around those bands was how I started my first band - In Praise of Lemmings.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.

I often think about what I want my sons to fully comprehend in regards to how sport industry unfairly operates.

I figured that I'm going to bring my own version of Billy Flynn and do my very best with it and let it go.

The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .

God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

It's easy to talk about how much you love God, but loving others reveals how much you truly do.

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

God is immutable—He never changes! His ministry to you is complete, on target, and constant!

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.

I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.

I have to know the killer, the victim and the motive when I begin. Then I start to create the characters and see how the novel takes shape based on what these people are like.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

One did not alter lives and simply walk away from the damage.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside-in the inner woman and her heart-and then works outward.