W. L. George Quotes

What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

One can never go wrong with a crisp white shirt to dress up any look. Styled with rolled sleeves and a front tuck creating a chic look for day and night.

We categorize as we do because we have the brains and bodies we have and because we interact in the world as we do.

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

It's good to be funny when you are a comedian.

Life is moments going by, but if you don't grab them, they're gone. For a long time, the only moments that were available were bad ones. So now I make sure to grab the good ones.

This is L.A. You wanna learn Spanish? Take the bus.

At the factory, I deal with ex-cons, substance abusers, and sexual harassers. And I'm not just talking about my mom.

A Dodger uniform just doesn't look good with a cummerbund.

It's not a matter of how well can you make a movie. It's how well can you make it under the circumstance, because there's always circumstances. You cannot use that as an excuse.

There is no why. We are. Life is beyond reason.

It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Never tell me the odds!

You need peers; you need people who are at the same level you are. You never know in life when you're going to need help, and you never know who you're going to need it from.

But having a really good understanding of history, literature, psychology, sciences - is very, very important to actually being able to make movies.

Time is more important to me than money.

When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture.

Whatever you do kid, always serve it with a little dressing.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

In joy or sorrow, feebleness or might, Peace or commotion, be thou, Father, my delight.

Oh the folly of any mind that would explain God before obeying Him! That would map out the character of God instead of crying, Lord, what wouldst thou have me to do?

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

The doing of things from duty is but a stage on the road to the kingdom of truth and love.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear

Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.

No, there is no escape. There is no heaven with a little of hell in it--no plan to retain this or that of the devil in our hearts or our pockets. Out Satan must go, every hair and feather!

It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about--what to do next. No man can do the second thing. He can do the first.

There are things that must be done in faith, else they never have being.

The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world, because it tells me his story; and what good men thought about him who knew him and accepted him.

Where did you come from, baby dear? Out of the everywhere and into here.

Religion is life essential.

Man's rank is his power to uplift.

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

Moderation is the basis of justice.

He who is faithful over a few things is a lord of cities. It does not matter whether you preach in Westminster Abbey or teach a ragged class, so you be faithful. The faithfulness is all.

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

Slavery discourages arts and manufactures.

Attend with Diligence and strict Integrity to the Interest of your Correspondents and enter into no Engagements which you have not the almost certain Means of performing.

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one ever climbed spiritual heights without it. No one ever lived without it.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.