I.B. George Quotes

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.

A tall young man sped swiftly up the wide stone steps leading to the doorway of a mansion in one of Chicago's most fashionable avenues.

In course of time my first novel appeared. It was a love story.

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

I get nervous before I conduct a concert, but then you just go out there and do it.

It it's true that fastidiousness and attention to detail is very much in my genes - if you knew my parents, you'd see that this is something I've inherited, only doubly so.

Concerts are dangerous because anything can happen - which is one of the joys as well.

When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

I've had the pleasure of playing with the baddest Jazz cats on the planet.

I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.

There is no time like the pleasant.

Whose fault is it if poor Ireland still continues poor?

The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it.

The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature.

I might as well doubt of my own being, as of the being of those things I actually see and feel.

But the velocities of the velocities - the second, third, fourth, and fifth velocities, etc. - exceed, if I mistake not, all human understanding.

Doth the Reality of sensible things consist in being perceived? or, is it something distinct from their being perceived, and that bears no relation to the mind?

Certainly he who can digest a second or third fluxion need not, methinks, be squeamish about any point in divinity.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

Principles without programs are platitudes.

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination.

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.