Able Quote by Jacques Barzun

Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive…

— Jacques Barzun

Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an…

— Gene Lees

Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw…

— Jacques Barzun

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is…

— Max Beerbohm

“As the playwright George Bernard Shaw once put it: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

— Roger Scruton

“well i think ...superman knew humans r jealos lot and cannot tolerate his gifts...n to blend in,if he projects himself loser..he b almost invisible…

— Dr lijo john

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

— Christina Stead

A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've…

— Jack Kirby

Other than He cannot be qualified by two (opposite) qualities at one time; yet With Him they do not create opposition. He is hidden…

— Mansur Al-Hallaj

The one and only formative power given to man is thought. By his thinking he not only makes character, but body and affairs, for…

— Charles Fillmore

For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can…

— J. Michael Straczynski