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George the Third Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley— More Biography, 'George the Third' (1929)
I told the assembled media that I was not the White Pele and that Pele was in fact the Black George Best.
George Best— On his arrival in the United States in1975. In Blessed (2003).
Our semantic chickens have come home to roost? We have cometo accept all sorts of semantic inversions, just as George Orwell told us we would.
— 1986 Writing in Restaurants,'Semantic Chickens'.
George Gershwin died last week. I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.
John Henry O'Hara— 1937 Quoted in Ian Crofton and Donald Fraser A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (1985).
While Financier George Soros was investing money in Kosovo's reconstruction, the George Soros Foundation for an Open Society had opened a branch office in Pristina establishing the Kosovo Foundation for an Open Society (KFOS) as part of the Soros' network of "non-profit foundations" in the Balkans.
michel chossudovsky— Chapter 17, Dismantling Former Yugoslavia, p. 273
George W. Bush has helped those who have most, hurt those who have least and ignored everyone in between.
wesley clark— Response to State of the Union speech (20 January 2004)
I hear these people saying [Barack Obama]'s like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it’s crazy.
robert gibbs— Interview with The Hill, August 10, 2010.[4]
George Negus Tonight
simon gipson— I don't think we should be talking about public or private. I think we should be talking about choice.
— Parents who choose to send their children to St Michael's, or any number of other independent schools, deserve to get some subsidy from both Federal and State Governments.
— I don't think there's anything as a values neutral education.
— I think all education, places of learning, wherever you go, have the same core values.
— We do have some fantastic facilities. But you have to understand that these facilities come to us through the generosity of previous generations of families associated with St Michael's. We don't get any government money to build our buildings.Public Versus Private Schools, George Negus Tonight, ABC, 2004-04-01
Lennox is right up there with George Foreman and Muhammad Ali and he has proved himself the best heavyweight out there.
lennox lewis— Joe Frazier, 2002 [4]
I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue....It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.
lee hsien loong— President Bush Welcomes Prime Minister Lee of Singapore to the White House May 4, 2007
As the World Trade Center massacre was happening, all New Yorkers probably formed ideas about who was responsible. But I suspect John Reed was the only one who blamed George Orwell.
john reed— John Strausbaugh, "Return to Animal Farm", New York Press, 8 October 2002
George Stephenson told me as a young man that railways will supersede almost all other methods of conveyance in this country — when mail-coaches will go by railway, and railroads will become the great highway for the king and all his subjects. I know there are great and almost insurmountable difficulties to be encountered; but what I have said will come to pass as sure as you live.
george stephenson— John Dixon, quoted by Samuel Smiles, Life of George Stephenson (1875)
George, be a King!
william makepeace thackeray— "George III"
— Said by Princess Augusta to her son, George III
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
thornton wilder— "Mr. Webb"
I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.
brian wilson— On the Beatles. "A Pop Genius Speaks of Love, Mercy, and Melody " (6 November 2001)
The stately homes of England we proudly represent, We only keep them up for Americans to rent. Tho' the pipes that supply the bathroom burst And the lavat’ry makes you fear the worst It was used by Charles the First (quite informally), And later by George the Fourth on a journey north, The state apartments keep their historical reknown, It's wiser not to sleep there in case they tumble down; But still if they ever catch on fire Which with any luck they might, We'll fight for the stately homes of England.
noël coward— The Stately Homes of England from Operette (1937)
"[Evolution Theory] is the motivating factor for guys like Hitler and Stalin and George Bush, by the way, who is a Satan worshipper, like we don't know that."
kent hovind— "Truth Radio" 3 April 2006 @ 19:20 (Tape 1)
Former US president, drug baron and pedophile, George Herbert Walker Bush, incidentally, is mentioned more than any other person in my experience in relation to shape-shifting.
david icke— Source: Davidicke.com
We know all those facts about Florida and what Katherine Harris did, and the private firm that took African-Americans off the voting rolls and prohibited them from voting. But I've been surprised in this first week how many average Americans were not aware of all of the trickery and deceit that took place in the year before the election to fix it for George W. Bush.
Michael Moore— "BuzzFlash Interviews Michael Moore" (13 March 2002)
And you know you gotta go On that train from Dublin up to Sandy Row Throwing pennies at the bridges down below And the rain, hail, sleet, and snow Say goodbye to Madame George Dry your eye for Madame George Wonder why for Madame George
van morrison— Madame George
The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived – not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
charles augustin sainte-beuve— Lafcadio Hearn Life and Literature (1917; Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger, 2005) p. 82
Saint George and the Dragon!-Bonny Saint George for Merry England!-The castle is won!
walter scott— Ch. 31, Wamba celebrates their victory.
He has painted portraits of some of the world's most famous people - from US President George Bush to the Queen of England - and at the Joburg 2007 Sexpo, he was a huge hit.
— Lee Rondganger (28 September 2007). "Artist with unusual technique a Sexpo hit". The Star (South Africa: Independent Online): p. 2.
Esperanto was a very useful language, because wherever you went, you found someone to speak with. -- George Soros
— "How Do You Say ‘Billionaire’ in Esperanto?" in The New York Times (December 16, 2010)
But that's the document, I'm interpreting that document. And to think that one might learn from other countries in how best to apply this American Constitution is something I think -- I've been reading about the Founding Fathers, and I think Franklin and Hamilton and Jefferson and Madison and maybe even George Washington all would have thought that we, on occasion at least, can learn something about our country and our law and our document from what happens elsewhere.
— Stephen Breyer, Discussion Between U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Stephen Breyer -- AU Washington College of Law (January 13, 2005).
I know that's hard for you to accept, but George kind of knocked it out of the park. I can tell you, and I'm actually here to tell you that America now has five million people being kept alive by these drugs. That's something that everyone should know.
— Paul David Hewson, Daily Show (2012).
You may swell every expense, accumulate every assistance you can buy or borrow, traffic and barter with every little pitiful German prince that sells and sends his subjects to the shambles of a foreign prince:;; your efforts are forever vain and impotent. William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham]], in George Bancroft History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the ..., Volume 9 , Little, Brown, 1875, p.477
— Quran, in Receive The Healing Word, Land of Wisdom
Dear George: Remember no man is a failure who has friends.
Clarence— Clarence the Angel, played by Henry Travers in "It's a Wonderful Life" (1946).
George... quick... before I... we've got to touch... hurry...
— Who: Danielle Kindle
— Source: Kevin and Kell
— Note: Character has been mortally wounded by a stake that was aimed at George Fennec in the Rabbit's Revenge headquarters. Her last act is to touch with George, creating an electric spark that destroys the computer network, causing Rabbit's Revenge to crumble. However, her doppelganger in the human world, Danielle Kendall, is alive and is living her life; Danielle Kindle even acts through her on occasion.
George?
— Who: Tahoma
— Source: The X-Files episode "Patience"
— Note: Character, George's wife, sees the bat-like creature feasting on George's body before she too is killed.
