I.B. George Quotes

My name is George Smoot III, and I AM smarter than a fifth-grader.

Every area had their own superstar. The TV was not national, it was localized. So you could develop in one place, or the next place and be a better star, go to the next place and be a superstar.

I'm not a win at all costs guy. Winning isn't everything. It's second to breathing.

I hate to lose. Hate, hate, hate to lose.

If you don't have a hernia yet then you're not pulling your own weight!

David Cone is in a class by himself with three or four other players.

Winning was everything. I don’t care what they tell you.

He says all the right things, like it's Jeter's team. I want to correct him on that - it's my team.

Breathing first, winning next.

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so.

Let's not talk punishment.

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

We are the New York Yankees

I'll stick to building ships.

If you haven't got a hernia yet, you ain't pulling your share.

I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

He who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.

Anything can be said and, in consequence, written about anything.

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee?

I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

The age of the book is almost gone.

To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living burial. It is to immure him in emptiness.

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right.

Self-projection is, more often than not, the move of the minor craftsman, of the tactics of the hour whose inherent weakness is, precisely, that of originality.

The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov.

There are three intellectual pursuits, and, so far as I am aware, only three, in which human beings have performed major feats before the age of puberty. They are music, mathematics, and chess.

Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.

My writing of fiction comes under a very general heading of those teachers, critics, scholars who like to try their own hand once or twice in their lives.

When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.

Defeating Hillary Clinton in a campaign unlike anything we've seen in our lifetimes.

[Donald Trump] said that even though he wants to repeal and replace ObamaCare, he might want to preserve some parts.

Rudy Giuliani say he thinks that a lot of protesters are professional protesters right there.

President Donald Trump has said, he would be honored to meet Kim Jong-un under the right circumstances. What are those circumstances?

I was going to say we saw Secretary [Hillary] Clinton reported that she believes that she would've won the election but for the interference of the FBI director James Comey.

We saw his [Donald Trump] children appointed this week to formal roles in the transition. A lot of ethics experts looking at that and saying that there is not a blind trust.

[Donald Trump] borrows money from all kinds of people around the world, including more than $100 million from a German bank now under federal investigation.

As well as, we know, as a real estate developer, [Donald Trump] has hundreds of millions of dollars in debt, in loans.

Of those hundreds of lawsuits [for Donald Trump], we're told 30 are significant. There's pressure for him to settle that suit before he goes into the office.

Forty-five hundred outstanding lawsuits now for Donald Trump, including Trump University in court .

[Donald] Trump suggesting to "The Wall Street Journal" that he would stop aiding the rebels fighting [Bashir] Assad.