I.B. George Quotes

It’s not how you start that’s important, but how well you finish!

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.

For real human beings, the only realism is an embodied realism.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

I do not spoil women. ... I don't send them flowers and gifts. . . . I'm saving those gestures until I am an unpleasant old man who must resort to bribery to win a woman's synthetic affections.

What you think means more than anything else in your life.

Those who know the least obey the best.

When I went to college, my goal was to be a college history teacher. I majored in history.

My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I can prove anything by statistics except the truth.

Two great talkers will not travel far together.

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.

Exercise is done against one's wishes and maintained only because the alternative is worse.

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

When you go onstage, you go on there to have a good time, and you smile and you engage with the audience and you invite them in.

It's [Jail's] like being at school. Except you can't leave.

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

If you listen to the neverdo's, it's never done.

I can do crunches all day long, but in yoga my core was challenged in a way that I never felt before.

I think zombies would fit in anywhere. You can tell any story, and put zombies in it. I don't know how I'd find the backing, but I think it'd be great to make a zombie gangster movie.

Every runner is an experiment of one.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in a year.... But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child.

Have you ever felt worse after a run?

A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

The wealthy have nothing left except money.

It isn't how long you stick around but what you put over while you are here.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

If you can accept defeat and open your pay envelope without feeling guilty, you're stealing.

Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

Football is one-third offense, one-third defense, and one-third special teams.

The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

Personally, I regard myself as an intellectual 'rebel,' kicking against the 'old colonialism-imperialism paradigm' which has landed Africa in a conundrum.

I know what I'm gonna do tomorrow, and the next day and the next year, and the year after that.

The woman's function is to fascinate men.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

Our youth we can have but to-day, We may always find time to grow old.

In short, if there were external bodies, it is impossible we should ever come to know it; and if there were not, we might have the very same reasons to think there were that we have now.

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.