George Burns Quotes

When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

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• I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Good
  • Home
  • Best

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Thought

• I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Up
  • High
  • Feel

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Silent
  • Injustice
  • Racial

• You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• Television has raised writing to a new low.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Writing
  • New
  • Television

• I could program the VCR when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Young
  • Program
  • VCR

• It's the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you. You gotta watch out for the moms.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Want
  • Sweet
  • Kiss

• An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Education

• Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Feel

• I think that it is becoming more and more clear that the European Union is an indispensable partner in some fields.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Think
  • More
  • Partner

• I'm religiously opposed to religion.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Religion
  • Opposed

• Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • People
  • World
  • Religion

• They grew in beauty side by side,They filled one home with glee:Their graves are severed far and wideBy mount and stream and sea.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Home
  • Sea

• You tell me, since Independence, in the field of justice delivery, has so much work been accomplished anywhere? But, for news traders, these things perhaps are not saleable. Now you tell me if these things are pro-poor or not.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Justice

• When I was younger, I read a book by Frank Barnaby, this wonderful nuclear physicist - he said that media had a responsibility, that all sectors of society had a responsibility to try and progress things and move things forward. And that fascinated me, because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.

  

  Jeremy Gilley
  • Life
  • Book
  • Society

• The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.

  

  Charles James
  • Past

• I am thrilled to return full time to a job and the employees I love.

  

  Oscar Munoz
  • Return
  • Employees
  • Thrilled

• For me, the way that I play, emotion is a big part of my game and you kind of have to channel that the right way. If you get frustrated, it does nobody any good. That’s kind of been the biggest challenge for me as a player and something I had to learn. I always think back to one of the quotes in that book. It’s something that he talked about.

  

  Brendan Gallagher
  • Game
  • Learn
  • Emotion

• Country Music has always changed for the times, if you listen to the recordings from the 50's to 60's to 70's, to now, the message is still there, basic down to earth songs about real people, it the music that's been updated. Some of it I like, but still prefer the traditional sound.

  

  Mark Chesnutt
  • People
  • Country
  • Real

• When I was young I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then and I'm labeled senile.

  

  George Burns