Burnie Burns Quotes

To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?

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• For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• Social revolutions are never simple.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Simple
  • Never
  • Revolutions

• I have great stories. I am going to write a book.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Great
  • Book
  • Stories

• Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Religion
  • Quiet

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Long
  • War

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Reason
  • Everything
  • Wedding

• I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Think
  • Said
  • Go

• A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Book
  • Man
  • City

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Never
  • Influence

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Age
  • Health
  • Service

• One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Work
  • Great
  • Society

• During the election, I had three male opponents and we went into a runoff. The front runner for the men was a native of Dallas who had run at large before, but I had a higher profile than him from my community service.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Men
  • Community
  • Service

• I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Always
  • Childhood
  • Normal

• Here I was, this good guy that played football; I was gonna go play in college but I had a bad senior year. But I played guitar in assemblies whenever I could.

  

  Bob Livingston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Yourself
  • Cheer

• Shelter dogs are the most loving, wonderful, sweet pets in the world. They understand being rescued, loved, and protected. The hubs and I have 2 rescued 11-yr-old Pomeranians, who adore us.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • World
  • Sweet
  • Loved

• Skill at helping people grow spiritually, like skill at playing chess, depends on understanding and valuing differences.

  

  John Ortberg
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Chess

• For my first wedding, I cried all the way down the aisle. My fake eyelash came off. My nose was red. My eyes were swollen. I'm not one of those pretty criers.

  

  Sherri Shepherd
  • Wedding
  • Fake
  • Criers

• To us, 'The Amazing Race' takes the whole world and turns it into a giant game. What could be better?

  

  Burnie Burns
  • World
  • Game
  • Amazing