W. L. George Quotes

I'm a pessimist, but I have many painstakingly applied coats of optimism.

As a writer you sometimes feel the need to shake things up.

Life is challenging for everyone. If someone can believe that he's a sovereign in his tiny domain, it's just an adaptation to life.

I guess I'm drawn to religion because I can be provocative without harming something people really care about, like their cars.

To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.

Launching a new TV show is probably one of the most difficult things that a writer can do.

I love that Voltaire was so willing to shock his readers with arbitrary cruelty. And I can completely relate to it.

I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again.

I prefer to linger on the periphery before making a commitment.

Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

When people have no interest in a subject, it's very hard to get them to laugh about it.

I find that the creative side of my brain and the archival side of my brain don't work well together. When I've done my best work, I've been in a trance-like state.

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

Freedom. I won't let you down.

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

Mike Tyson has been accused of being a homosexual. What change do I have, you know? Everyone's in the same boat? Who could possibly care or believe anything after hearing that, really?

The Wham! thing was, as I said, very confusing, and much of our image was totally fake.

It's so easy to find someone who would walk around me like a shadow and do everything for me and never be tempted by other men, so obviously I'm not attracted by that type.

[My father] was not a musical man.

Things that I was writing for Wham! were a strong indication of what my future album would be like. But most people got so lost in our image and found it pretty repulsive.

We had to create an album where there wasn't one. I never listen to that album [ Music From the Edge of Heaven] because it wasn't an album.

I hate the actual traveling, but I like playing.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

[Wham!] totally changed my life. It would be very difficult to know how it changed me as a person; you'd have to ask other people that.

I have no doubt that the music I release next will be better.

I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

I am a political person, though not with a big P.

I think marriage is a good thing for children, because it gives them a feeling of security.

I'm not a great collaborator, to tell the truth.

I thought [first girlfriend] was trying to make a fool out of me. Then I found out that she wasn't, and we went out. That's a very good example of how little confidence I had.

I went to prison, I paid my bill.

I find it too terrifying to go out in L.A.

The English have no soul; they have the understatement instead.

English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

Foreigners have souls; the English haven't.

To have created a Welfare State was a great achievement; but we must go on to create a Welfare Planet.

The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

On the Continent stray cats are judged individually on their merit-some are loved, some are only respected; in England they are universally worshipped as in ancient Egypt.

Prices in Italy are only slightly lower than in France, which means that Italy is a very expensive country for everyone, natives, visitors and tourists.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.

War and pestilence might kill large numbers of people, but in most cases the population recovers. But lose the soil and everything goes with it.

The toughest workout can never match the pain of being out of work.

I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest.

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.