I.B. George Quotes

I got more publicity for not doing a festival than for doing the festival.

Every man wants to feel that his woman would love him apart from anything else.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

A lot of the conventions aren't full of "Cheers" fans. They are more themed for fans of monsters and zombies.

[Ted Denson] is sort of a reluctant leader. He didn't try to flex his influence. He's just eminently followable.

Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.

Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.

Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa.

In the choice of a horse and a wife a man must please himself ignoring the opinion and advice of friends.

Happiness is a rare cosmetic.

When you sleep in your cloak there 's no lodging to pay.

Is the peace of God in the soul disturbed by things down here? No, never! If waters break in stormy currents against a rock, the rock is unmoved; it is only the waters that are disturbed.

Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.

That is the crux of modern conservatism - government taking strong measures to foster the attitudes and aptitudes necessary for increased individual independence.

Even the continents drift.

Voters cannot hold officials responsible if they do not know what government is doing, or which parts of government are doing what.

Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

Freedom is the silence of the law.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

[P]rogressivism is a top-down, continent-wide tissue of taxes, mandates, and other coercions.

When a politician says, concerning an issue involving science, that the debate is over, you may be sure the debate is rolling on and not going swimmingly for his side.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of government in allocating wealth and opportunity.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

[O]rganized violence punctuated by committee meetings.

There is no reason to think today's levels of [drug] addiction are anywhere near the levels that would be reached under legalization.

The First Amendment is not a blanket freedom-of-information act. The constitutional newsgathering freedom means the media can go where the public can, but enjoys no superior right of access.

It is axiomatic: When there is no penalty for failure, failures proliferate.

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

The English language is not always the President's friend.

Remember Henry Adam's jest that the succession of presidents from Washington to Grant disproved the theory of evolution?

If there were 10,000 U.S. forces ashore [in Lebanon], authorized to move about, there would be less risk to American lives than there is with an immobile force of 1,300.

Arizona's law makes what is already a federal offense - being in the country illegally - a state offense. Some critics seem not to understand Arizona's right to assert concurrent jurisdiction.

The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice are immediate and discernible.

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

The more one works, the better one works and the more one wants to work.

Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

Baseball, like Pericles' Athens (or any other good society), is simultaneously democratic and aristrocratic. Anyone can enjoy it, but the more you apply yourself, the more you enjoy it.

All children find chaos congenial. Any unruliness, even by nature, advances the child's program of subverting authority.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

The Revolution's most important result was Napoleon, whose most important result (as France learned in 1871, and again in 1914, and again in 1940) was the invention of Germany