I.B. George Quotes

The Beatles will exist without us.

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

If God is in everything, why shouldn't you taste Him when you eat?

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

Gifts enter every where without a wimble.

Never was a miser a brave soul.

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

Thursday come, and the week's gone.

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within thee.

A dwarf on a giant's shoulder, sees further of the two.

Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.

In a long journey straw waighs.

Good horses make short miles.

Im very strongly in favor of the auteur theory.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

Civility is a charm that attracts the love of all men.

The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature.

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

The board is currently undertaking what could be its most important task, ... We are confident that we're going to make a choice that is in the best interest of the company, shareholders and others.

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.

Working outdoors or from life puts you in direct contact with the life force, not just the light and the landscape, but also the vitality of the world around you.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

Because it's there. (when asked why he wanted to climb Everest)

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

Immigration is an issue of global significance in America. And if you look at the terrorist alerts and attacks, Latinos [as a group] are not in the top five list [for] terror alerts.

If laughter is the best medicine, I promise to continue to make you laugh as my wife and I work together with the National Kidney Foundation to save lives.

You don't see the struggle part of a person's life. You only see the success they have.

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

Don't avoid the cliches - they are cliches because they work!

If I had time and a hammer, I'd track down every bootleg copy and smash it.

The script is what you've dreamed up - this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

I can write better plays than any living danced, and dance better than any living playwright.

I don't think you can spend yourself rich.

I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.

Come, come to Him who made thy heart; Come weary and oppressed; To come to Jesus is thy part; His part, to give thee rest.

God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.

We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always giving as fast as He can get us able to take it in.

What does God want me to do?”, not “What will God do if I do so and so?

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

I say again, if I cannot draw a horse, I will not write THIS IS A HORSE under what I foolishly meant for one.