Top 1200 George Wallace Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

We made a decision very early on that George would be the main songwriter because it was very apparent to all of us that he was better at it.

I love that on country radio, you can hear a George Strait song, and the next is Sam Hunt. I love that there's such a variety.

We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.

I always wanted to do music but never really had the confidence to do it until my first manager George Lamb, who I met out in Ibiza, encouraged me.

I was a really good youth boxer, and I enjoyed the sport very much. Once I actually started to play the trumpet, it is very similar to boxing. Most of the great trumpet players boxed: Miles Davis was a boxer, Wallace Roney is a boxer, Terrence Blanchard is a boxer. In a boxing ring, no one can help you. It's just you and the other guy, and your job is to get him out of there, to outscore him in the best sense of it. When you learn to box, the first thing they teach you is to protect yourself at all times, and some people also learn that they like being hit.

Under President (George W.) Bush, prosecution of gun crimes was 30 percent higher than it is under President Obama.

The new CIA torture report is 6 million pages long. It's almost as long as a George Clooney pre-nup.

God just blessed me with a talent to play basketball. If I didn't have that talent, I possibly would've been that George Floyd.

What would George Clooney do? That's one of my favourites. He is one of my favourite actors and one of my favourite human beings. I don't know if I have a serious life philosophy.

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him 'father.'

There have been a few players described as the new George Best over the years, but this is the first time its been a compliment to me.

George Best was one of the most talented players of all time and probably the best footballer who never made it to a major world final.

We know Uncle George directly, so he gives us music to sample, all we gotta do is tell him directly and we can use it.

At seven years old, I won a scholarship to George Heriot's School, an independent school in Edinburgh, and I was there until I was 17.

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.

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

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.

Even with the best of intentions, even when they're very smart and knowledgeable - as opposed to George W., who is neither - it doesn't seem to matter.

Many people, especially young people, have started listening to sitar since George Harrison, one of the Beatles, became my disciple.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families. GEORGE HENRY LEWES, The Physiology of Common Life Killing is not nearly as easy as the innocent believe.

George W. Bush was great on the belief that America was the solution to the world's problems, not the problem, and was a great defender, believer.

Every time I sit down with him, I know why he is who he is, and that's really cool. It's a great feeling. It sucks because I'm so not an ass-kisser, but he's George Lucas.

I agree with George Washington's concern about parties: They become an end in themselves, rather than being committed to helping people improve their lives.

I started cutting my teeth on "Someone To Watch Over Me" [George Gershvin] in the college. I've sung that one for a while. There's something so simple and sweet about that lyric.

Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.

Don't, Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls. We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat. George! Only joking, Mum.

Yeah 'ear 'ear," said George, with half a glance at Fred, the corner of whose mouth twitched.

George Allen was afraid of my image. He wasn't afraid of me.

I'd like to see the first act of Sunday in the Park with George, and the second act of Hamilton. Every day.

George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.

George Jones may be gone but his music will live on forever. What a great voice and a great friend.

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.'

I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing and the shadow won.

It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong

Edward lives as if there is no tomorrow, Richard as if he wants no tomorrow, and George as though someone should give it to him for free.

Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.

We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

My eldest son George had acute myeloid leukaemia when he was a tiny baby, he is now 20 and doing very well. He is a mini-miracle in many ways.

I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.

What we acknowledged as a nation during the one-and-a-half year trial of George Zimmerman is that the white majority's public imagination of black people was based on their fear of us, not the reality of who we are.

If I were playing today I'd do what Joe DiMaggio said. I'd go knock on the door at Yankee Stadium and when George Steinbrenner answered I'd say, 'Howdy, pardner.'

I've always been a huge fan of Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and George Strait. That's what I grew up on. But I also loved Usher and Justin Timberlake.

The BBC will always be attacked by whoever is in government. It is that George Bush thing of 'If you're not with us you are against us.'

For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.

What can a mere French minister do when associated with Lloyd George, who thinks he is Napoleon, and Woodrow Wilson, who thinks he is Jesus Christ?

Reagan is both too fatalistic and too modest to be a crudaser. He doesn't have that darkness around the eyes of a George McGovern.

I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim the decade beginning January 1, 1990, as the Decade of the Brain.

If you make a certain type of statement, you can make a pretty good prediction of how George Steinbrenner will react.

What would happen if we financed somebody in the U.S. to destabilize the government of George W. Bush? They would go to prison, certainly.

George W. Bush is so pro-Mexico that if you hit him with a stick prizes would fall out of him.

I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, "the soft bigotry of low expectations."

General George Patton, General Douglas MacArthur are spinning in their grave at the stupidity of what we're doing in the Middle East.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq.

At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.