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I believe that just because something didn't go the way you planned it once, it's no reason not to try again. — Chantelle Shaw

Alright, he's chucking his toys out the basket and Gary Shaw has a big mouth and shouts a lot. — Joe Calzaghe

I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms. — Caroline Shaw

Mixologist at a bar in the heavily gentrified Shaw neighbourhood, I fear I haven't a skinny-jeaned leg to stand on. S.D. PLATTON Washington, DC — Anonymous

My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism. — Vinessa Shaw

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid. — George Bernard Shaw

There's no future in being poor. — Robert Shaw

I grew up listening to - it's kind of embarrassing - all classical music. — Caroline Shaw

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants. — Vivien Leigh

Sometimes someone else's life can be the only thing that makes sense of your own. — Ali Shaw

But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person's thumb are
two different things. — George Bernard Shaw

It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work. — George Bernard Shaw

Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She's phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her - that's how much I love her. — Rutina Wesley

There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately. — Jim Shaw

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's. — George Bernard Shaw

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world. — George Bernard Shaw

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus. — George Bernard Shaw

An entrepreneur's life is always a continuous journey. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. — George Bernard Shaw

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can. — George Bernard Shaw

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit. — George Bernard Shaw

A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. — George Bernard Shaw

A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member. — George Bernard Shaw

It came on slowly, like the tide filling up the entire shore before you even realize it's coming in. — Jennifer Shaw Wolf

Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject — George Bernard Shaw

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination. — George Bernard Shaw

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. — George Bernard Shaw

Professor Henry Higgins: Oh, Pickering, for God's sake stop being dashed and do something! — George Bernard Shaw

Honey you are a woman of excellence. Excellence is not perfection it's progression — Patricia Hardy-Shaw

If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character. — George Bernard Shaw

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman. — George Bernard Shaw

How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? — George Bernard Shaw

Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then — George Bernard Shaw

The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

spring time is for lovers because...it's so fresh and new! — Kim Shaw

On Shaw's principle that "if you don't get what you like, you better like what you get, — F. Scott Fitgerald

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture. — George Bernard Shaw

If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog. — George Bernard Shaw

In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody. — Irwin Shaw

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english. — James Joyce

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not. — George Bernard Shaw

There's something about the Irish that is remarkable. — Fiona Shaw

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake. — George Bernard Shaw

It's survival of the fittest, not the strongest or the biggest. — Ali Shaw

Gay people should be allowed to get married. Just because somebody's gay doesn't mean he shouldn't suffer like the rest of us — Jeff Shaw

Of all America's natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony. — Markham Shaw Pyle

It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell. — George Bernard Shaw

Whoever promotes Palestine today promotes the rise of Hamas. It's as inevitable as storms after strong winds. — Barry Shaw

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated. — George Bernard Shaw

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things. — Fiona Shaw

--here, now, always-- T.S. Eliot — Sylvia Shaw Judson

If if's and and's were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers. — George Bernard Shaw

That's what my penis is like: a beautiful, thorny rose. — Dash Shaw

The bride's getting ready to toss her bouquet, so get me up there! Mom said the day after she turned 96. — June Shaw

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all. — George Bernard Shaw

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. — George Bernard Shaw

Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it's an event when it's done right. — Stan Shaw

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration. — George Bernard Shaw

Because it's always been you even when I didn't want it to be, even when it broke my heart over and over again. It's always been you. — Jay Crownover

The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character. — George Bernard Shaw

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity. — George Bernard Shaw

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. — George Bernard Shaw

She's a rock I want to break myself against. — Michelle Hodkin

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all. — Irwin Shaw

If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad. — George Bernard Shaw

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all. — George Bernard Shaw

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could. — George Bernard Shaw

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. — George Bernard Shaw

My chest, Stella's hip, Jamie's left ass cheek. — Michelle Hodkin

They rode in a cab to the rendezvous spot. It was a warehouse, which didn't surprise Shaw.
"It's usually a damn warehouse," he said to Reggie. — David Baldacci

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. — Nigel Rees

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world. — George Bernard Shaw

Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine. — George Bernard Shaw

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75. — Irwin Shaw

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it. — Robert Gould Shaw

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take. — Fiona Shaw

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news. — George Bernard Shaw

I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful side to everything. — George Bernard Shaw

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog. — George Bernard Shaw

One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism.
- Shaw's Preface — George Bernard Shaw

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way. — Fiona Shaw

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing. — George Bernard Shaw

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. — George Bernard Shaw

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement. — George Bernard Shaw

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces. — James Agate

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American. — Irwin Shaw

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one? — George Bernard Shaw

The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics. — Lyle W. Dorsett

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence — George Bernard Shaw

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. — George Bernard Shaw

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. — George Bernard Shaw

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little. — George Bernard Shaw

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. — George Bernard Shaw

Programmers are like magicians who fool everyone into thinking they are perfect and never wrong, but it's all an act. They make mistakes all the time. — Zed A. Shaw

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music. — T. S. Eliot

Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated. — George Bernard Shaw

Each day is a good day
because it's a day, not a night,
each flight is a good flight. — Rohvannyn Shaw

Warhol was a prime example of a schizoid person. Maybe he had Asperger's, or maybe he was just an amorous human being on earth. — Jim Shaw