W. L. George Quotes

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.

For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.

I'm the flavor of the month.

The rehearsal process in general is about trusting one another.

If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

Oceans is about glamour. I can't go looking like a slob can I?

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing.

Never get behind old people. Their bodies are littered with hidden metal and they never seem to appreciate how little time they have left

The government itself is running exactly like the Sopranos and they sit back and they make deals. And they say okay, 'I'm going do this: France, you're getting the pipelines.'

It is rather astonishing that the United States does not play ball with the ICC, considering our country was the beacon of the idea of an international criminal court.

The secret of directing is working with really good people.

Directors are the captains of the ship, and it's your job as the lead actor to make sure that the rest of the cast understand that by doing whatever he says.

Art takes different forms... But it represents something that is basic in all of us-our history.

I'm interested in making films that ask questions and don't particularly provide answers.

Ninety percent of films are pretty mediocre, but they have a built-in audience and open on 3,000 screens.

I'm not quite sure what the santicity of marriage is.

You get better as an actor over time if you're growing. Like singers.

I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.

I've been lucky enough to do a few films that will last longer than an opening weekend and those films are the ones I'm proud of.

There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

America can't beat anyone anymore.

The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.

Both of my grandparents died of lung cancer. So I got quite a lesson in the payback later in life of smoking, and if you keep it up how bad it can be.

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass.

I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

I hope I'm not giving the impression of an ivory tower science, but for me science is an attempt to understand, it's an attempt to understand the universe.

Being a scientist helps to support both my life as a Jesuit and my belief in God.

Arrogance is the act of the great; presumption that of the little.

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

Learning is better worth than houses or land.

Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

A master passion is the love of news.

Against her foes Religion well defends Her sacred truths, but often fears her friends.

Ability comprehends the power of doing in general, without specifying the quality or degree.

'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.

Secrets with girls, like guns with boys, are never valued till they make a noise.

What is a church?—Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

Tis easiest dealing with the firmest mind-- More just when it resists, and, when it yields, more kind.

Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.

And took for truth the test of ridicule.

Oh, Conscience! Conscience! man's most faithful friend, Him canst thou comfort, ease, relieve, defend; But if he will thy friendly checks forego, Thou art, oh! woe for me, his deadliest foe!

Old Peter Grimes made fishing his employ; His wife he cabined with him and his boy, And seemed that life laborious to enjoy.