Quotes About George

By the way, if you don't know who Eleanor Rigby is, you probably were born after 1985 and need to listen to some real music.

Jackie Brown at twenty-six, with no expression on his face, said that he could get some guns.

States like these… constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world.

Experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing Constitution of a country

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

To please everybody is impossible were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody.

He is an intellectual who is unbeholden to the shibboleths of the professoriat and who has a deep appreciation for untutored popular piety.

Avoidance of lunacy is an insufficient agenda." -George Will on Ronald Reagan, 3-6-1987

George Edward Herbert

Memoirs: the backstairs of history.

I've been asked many times why and how do Steven and George make popular, blockbuster films. My answer is twofold: They know how to pick what the audience wants to see, and the creative part of their films is made by one or two people, not committees.

doing here, George." The supportive chuff he got in return was exactly the vote of

The great blind King sat his ass back down. And if you were any other living thing you might say he sulked a little. His lower lip pouching out. His brows sinking lower. Then in a bid to calm himself, which he would of denied,he reached down and petted George. That golden retriever was the sunshine to Wraith's thunder.

When George first told me about the title, I wasn't so sure he was serious," Burtt says. "It seemed like such an extreme-sounding pulp title. But that's what we were making: a big version of those old serials, with names like 'Fate Takes the Wheel' or 'The Crimson Ghost Strikes Out.' 

Right after Star Wars came out, there was a period where George didn't know what to do," model maker Steve Gawley says. "He owned the equipment. But in the meantime, he didn't need it, as far as I understand. And so the same group of folks got back together and rented the equipment, and we made a television miniseries for Universal called Galactica.

To defend the indefensible, George Orwell once observed, political figures employ language that consists largely of "euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.

I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.

The House of Peers, throughout the war, Did nothing in particular, And did it very well: Yet Britain set the world ablaze In good King George's glorious days!

I cannot understand how something as ubiquitous as war can simply be dismissed as pathological. It is not clear to me that it is an unspeakable evil. If it is, I need proof of it.

A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets.

In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.

The Bush administration is a paragon of wisdom.

I had always been aware of George's importance to me, of the bond of friendship and of the sparkle and light, effervescence and electricity that suffused the music we made.