John Burnside Quotes

Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting.

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• I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Health

• Young people, particularly in their teens and 20s, are not consuming sports the way my generation did. They are doing lots of things; they are multitasking. They are getting downloads; they are getting alerts on their computers or on their cellphones, and they are consuming sports in a more real-time but less full-time basis.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Smart
  • Data
  • Cloud

• Boxing gave me a path in life. Because of boxing, I learned what I'm capable of achieving if I put my mind to it and how hard work can and will pay off in the end. It gave me confidence and taught me to face fear straight on and dig down deep when times get tough.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mind

• So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Now
  • Sword
  • Now And Then

• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Attitude
  • Creative
  • Haircut

• We still need to be conscious of the fact that Russia has intercontinental ballistic missiles.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Need
  • Fact
  • Russia

• I've been around the bend in corporations.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Around
  • Corporations
  • Bend

• It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.

  

  Quintilian
  • Words
  • Child
  • First

• I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• When I go out, I love steak and caviar.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Love
  • Steak
  • Caviar

• When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Kids
  • Bad
  • Child

• Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

  

  Aaron Stanford
  • Interesting
  • Like
  • Story

• Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Me
  • Waiting
  • Feel

• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nature
  • Justice

• When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• If you're in a Gay Mafia and you get whacked, is that good or bad? gay voice Say hello to my little friend.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend

• That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society 'post-capitalist.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Society
  • Knowledge

• There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?

  

  Aristotle
  • State
  • Wealthy
  • Tyrant

• Men who work to make it as computer whizzes or owners of black Porsches... are confused when they're told they are not vulnerable enough. We can't fall in love with men who appear invulnerable and expect vulnerability. Why did he want a black Porsche? Because he never saw an ugly woman get out of one.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Why

• I was involved in the anti-war movement.

  

  Bill Ayers
  • War

• And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.

  

  William Harvey
  • Life
  • Science
  • Sleep

• Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting.

  

  John Burnside