John Burnside Quotes

The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.

John Burnside

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• I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Believe
  • War
  • Death

• Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Never
  • Grow

• I don't care about revenues.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Care
  • About

• I always do my interviews face to face.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Always
  • Face
  • Interviews

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • House
  • Man
  • White

• Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Past
  • Always
  • Now

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • American
  • Today
  • Problems

• It's a courageous thing to do something that doesn't have rules or limits.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Courage
  • Rules
  • Limits

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Work
  • Team

• Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Loved

• I don't get hung up on weight.

  

  Jack Black
  • Up
  • Get
  • Weight

• I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Weird

• Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.

  

  Valentina Zelyaeva
  • Like
  • Body
  • Your Body

• Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • World
  • Mind
  • Power

• We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.

  

  Zhou Yongkang
  • Thoughts
  • Chaos
  • Stand

• It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Beach

• I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• It is always my endeavour however in making a picture that it should be without a companion in the world. At least such should be a painters ambition.

  

  John Constable
  • World
  • Picture
  • Ambition

• Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Time
  • Good
  • Day

• That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Never
  • Person
  • Bored

• The son of a Fife mining town sledder of coal-bings, bottle-forager, and picture-house troglodyte, I was decidedly urban and knew little about native fauna, other than the handful of birds I saw on trips to the beach or Sunday walks.

  

  John Burnside
  • House
  • Picture
  • Son