John Burnside Quotes

Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

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• Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Lucky

• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • You
  • Then

• It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Punishment
  • Cause
  • Martyr

• I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Family
  • School
  • Think

• Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • Food
  • Evil
  • Personality

• But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Land
  • Issue
  • Which

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• My husband and I are just really laid back people.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • People
  • Husband
  • Back

• The process of unleashing worms on organic waste such as food scraps and grass clippings is known as 'vermicomposting.' Amateur horticulturists and hippies have been doing it on a small scale for decades.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Small
  • Food
  • Doing

• The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • People
  • Energy
  • Relationship

• I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Why
  • Know
  • Best

• We all stand on the dart board and very few of us catch the darts. Do not think it is unfair. It is fair but you are unlucky.

  

  Randy Pausch

• The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Focus

• While I am watching over you, no great need will overcome you. be mindful of the name of the Trinity And none shall overcome you.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great

• What is worse, when I got the matter enquired into by the local police, we found out that it was a small, insignificant structure under a tree which had been damaged a little bit by some crazy individual. But NDTV presented it as an attack on a Hanuman mandir. When the fires were raging these journalists were pouring fuel on those fires.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Small
  • Crazy
  • Tree

• We immerse ourselves in escapist mass entertainment, such as 'reality T.V.' programs. We support fanatical politicians and preachers. Our politicians, in turn, support dictators and tyrants in other countries, all in the name of 'security' and 'stability'. And we arm ourselves to the teeth, and pray to God to be saved.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • God
  • Reality
  • Support

• I prayed a lot. That's all I had in the gym; that was the thing I could turn to.

  

  Dominique Moceanu
  • Gym

• Anybody who sits down to write, and they think 'thriller,' maybe shouldn't be thinking that way. Maybe we should be thinking 'novel,' maybe 'thriller' way in the background, but that these are real people to whom things are happening. It just happens to be a hell of an exciting story.

  

  David Morrell
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

  

  Andre Previn
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Habit

• Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.

  

  John Burnside