Quotes
Authors
George Mikes

"Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum."

-- George Mikes

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“So what is design all about? It [exists to] decrease the amount of vulgarity in the world ... to make the world a better place to be. It doesnâ€™t have to be one style. Weâ€™re not talking about style, weâ€™re talking about quality. Style is tangible, quality is intangible. I am talking about giving to everything that surrounds us a level of quality.”
“People talk about the golden age of Hollywood because of how women were lit then. You could be Joan Crawford and Bette Davis and work well into your 50s, because you were lit and made into a goddess. Now, with everything being sort of gritty, women have this sense of their use-by date.”
“It's the way I make music, I will take two ideas and smash them together and if they sit well together for me then that's fine, and it's the same with the lyrics - if I see a couple of lines and I like the way they look on the page then I'll use them. I find they take on a meaning of their own, it's very difficult to explain how I actually go about all that.”
“In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.”
“People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.”
“Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.”
“Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in.”
“He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”

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