I.B. George Quotes

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile.

The planet isn't going anywhere. We are.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

Have you ever noticed that the lawyer always smiles more than the client?

A lot of times when they catch a guy who killed twenty-seven people, they say, He was a loner. Well, of course he was a loner; he killed everyone he came in contact with.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?

Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent.

Why don't they have waiters in waiting rooms?

Catholics are against abortions. Catholics are against homosexuals. But, I can't think of anyone who has less abortions than homosexuals!

If you've got a cat and a leg, you've got a happy cat. If you've got a cat and two legs, you've got a party.

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

I never eat sushi. I have trouble eating things that are merely unconscious.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories.

Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes.

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

An Englishman, being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion.

The best way to accomplish something is to just do it, and then find the courage afterward.

Love is Natures second sun.

Fair words never hurt the tongue.

I don't want to be constantly associated with tragedy. I think I'd like to be associated with the idea of 'hope'.

If you got a booty, you're going to dance to disco, funk, you know, whatever's going on. Funk is going to be involved in it.

If you want to protect yourself as an actor, always work with good people

I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.

I've worked with Woody Allen twice and he was like, "Whatever you want to change, it's up to you. If you want to change the words, make them your own."

The first question is something immediate -- and immediately, we need humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Sudan before it becomes the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a lake, 'Twill form in circles round succeeding round; Each wider than the first.

Neither of us can come to either a knowledge of God, or a denial of God by our scientific research.

Science is and should be seen as "completely neutral" on the issue of the theistic or atheistic implications of scientific results.

Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

Some old women and men grow bitter with age; the more their teeth drop out, the more biting they get.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

The management system which makes only a pretense of valuing employee involvement and encouraging employee empowerment merely breeds cynicism.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

We want people to feel with us more than to act for us.

Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.