James E. Burke Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
-
I love cycling.
-
You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
-
There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
-
The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
-
I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
-
I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.
Garry Kasparov -
God's been very good to me. I'm truly blessed.
-
As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
-
TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
-
There's nothing wrong with being yourself.
-
In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
-
'Westworld' is bizarre. I don't know what to think of 'Westworld.'
-
In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.
-
I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.
-
I really do believe that inner beauty is so much more than any kind of outer beauty.
-
I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
-
There are tragedies that happen all the time in America, but there are certain types of tragedies that kind of pull us together and make us pause and give us a chance to reflect about where we are, where we're going, and that sort of thing.
-
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
-
There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.
-
The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.
-
The few people who ask to have their photographs with me, I almost always say yes, except for a few circumstances, like when my family is around.
-
The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.
-
We don't grow unless we take risks. Any successful company is riddled with failures.
