"'Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've – you've blown up a toilet or –'

'Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet.'

'Great idea though, thanks, Mum.'"
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone)

"The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive."
— Sam Harris (Letter to a Christian Nation)

"Don't call me 'gentleman'. I work for a livin'."
— Tamora Pierce

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
— George Orwell (1984)

"The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions."
— George Carlin

"There's always a bigger fish. (Qui-Gon Jin)"
— George Lucas

"I thought it sounded a bit like Percy singing...maybe you've got to attack him while he's in the shower, Harry."
— J.K. Rowling (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

""He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly.""
— George Carlin

"Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist. "
— George Orwell

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
— George Carlin

"I salute to you Commander
and I sneeze
'Cause I have Now
an Allergy
To your policies it seems

Where have we gone wrong America?
Mr. Lincoln we can't seem
to find you anywhere out of the millions
From the deserts
To the mountains
Over prairies
To the shores
Is this just the Madness of King George
Yo George
Is this just the Madness of King George
Yo George
Well you have the whole Nation
on all fours. "
— Tori Amos

"Old George Orwell got it backward.
Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat.
Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake. He's making sure
you're always distracted. He's making sure you're fully absorbed.
He's making sure your imagination withers. Until it's as useful as your appendix. He's
making sure your attention is always filled."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Lullaby)

"Read as you taste fruit or savor wine,
or enjoy friendship, love or life."
— George Holbrook Jackson

"If the ass of Jesus be taken to Mekkah
He will on his return still be an ass. "
— Sa'di (The Gulistan of Sa'di)

""He's going to the hair doctor. The man's going bald." You hadn't noticed that whole underdeveloped region right up in here?"
"Oh, you're one to talk, Slick."
"Nah. See, when a black man goes bald, he still looks good. Look at Michael Jordan, George Foreman, Samuel L. Jackson, Classy-lookin' brothers, Who you got? Kojak?""
— Alex Kendrick

"George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.""
— Madeleine L'Engle (Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art)

"Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you."
— George Carlin

"Do we not wile away moments of inanity or fatigued waiting by repeating some trivial movement or sound, until the repetition has bred a want, which is incipient habit?"
— George Eliot

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
[Treaty of Tripoli 1796]

"
— George Washington

"Winston Smith: [reciting poem] Under the spreading chestnut tree / I sold you / You sold me. "
— George Orwell

"A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. "
— George Bernard Shaw

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. "
— George Bernard Shaw

"Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them."
— George W. Bush

""It will take time to restore chaos""
— George W. Bush

"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
— George Bernard Shaw

"Most of the money I made I spent on fast cars, drink and women, the rest I just wasted."
— George Best

"Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."
— George Orwell (1984)

"George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge"
— John le Carré

"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul"
— George Bernard Shaw

"The west need someone to tell the man who walks around with the biggest stick in the world, that that stick can`t bring down God`s house."
— Saddam Hussein

"Indee, when i came to Italy, i expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying","We understand how it is--we have one, too.""
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully."
— George Bush

"Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. "
— George Bernard Shaw

"George Oppen is a tough old bird. If you've never seen what [he] sees, it's because you haven't sat still long enough and looked as he has. The things he sees feel like the gnarled bark of a tree. The tree is there too. You can put your weight against it. It won't give."
— Carl Rakosi

""Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?"

"
— Shaw George Bernard

"All things must pass
All things must pass away
All things must pass
None of life's strings can last
So, I must be on my way
And face another day
"
— George Harrison