Quotes About George

George felt the group wasn't giving him the freedom he needed to develop his songwriting. But I have to admit the end came a little sooner than I expected.

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

It may seem strange that one with whom I had held so little communion should have so engrossed my thoughts, but benefits conferred awaken love in some minds, as surely as benefits received in others.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Anyway, George comes up to me the first day of filming and he takes one look at the dress and says, "You can't wear a bra under that dress." So, I say, "Okay, I'll bite. Why?" And he says, "Because . . . there's no underwear in space." I promise you this is true, and he says it with such conviction too! Like he had been to space and looked around and he didn't see any bras or panties or briefs anywhere.

One thing George never did like other directors—I was to later learn, with dismay—was encourage us to "just have fun with it." So many directors have urged me in that amused direction, and I always want to say, "Is that what I'm here for? Fun?

To the Austrian economics of subjectivity, time provides an objective foundation.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

And he who lieth there was childless. I have dried the fountain of gentle race.. -Cain

To others' share let 'female errors fall,' For she had not even one—the worst of all.

Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange, Stranger than Fiction

We know what works. Freedom Works. We know what's right. Freedom is right.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

What fools these immortals be.

During humanity's transition to democracy, let he who is without authoritarianism cast the first drone.

Sorrow hath chang'd its note : such is His will Who changeth all things

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And all I can say to them is read my lips No New Taxes.

[T]hose who live by numbers can also perish by them and it is a terrifying thing to have an adding machine write an epitaph, either way.

The shapes of time are the prey we want to capture

In shallow men the fish of small thoughts cause much commotion, in magnanimous oceanic minds the whales of inspiration cause hardly a ruffle" (Mao Tse-tung).

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.

Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.