George Burns Quotes

When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

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• We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Know
  • Religion
  • Literature

• For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

  

  Zach Wamp
  • World
  • American
  • Years

• Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can.

  

  Yousuf Karsh
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Task

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • People
  • Food
  • Better

• Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Friends
  • Dad
  • Old

• Essentially what photography is is life lit up.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Photography

• Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Back

• A new understanding of power is replacing our old understanding of power as the ability to manipulate and control. The old understanding of power has become counterproductive to our evolution. What used to be good medicine has become poisonous. Pursuit of the ability to manipulate and control now produces only violence and destruction.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Good
  • Power
  • Control

• My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.

  

  Barry Diller
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Food
  • Road
  • Tough

• Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Value
  • Positive
  • Negative

• There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning. I think I've learned that lesson twice now. The essence of successful revolution, be it for an individual, a community of individuals, or a nation, depends on accepting that challenge.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Power
  • High
  • Giving

• I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, 'You're wrong' I say, 'What can you expect of an ass?'

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• Susan had an earnest soul, a conscience tending to morbidity.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Soul

• Be a clown, be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool, play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh.

  

  Cole Porter
  • World
  • Fool

• In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people.

  

  Marcel Marceau
  • People
  • Silence
  • Reflection

• What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

• You can't go by what things look like on paper.

  

  Megyn Kelly

• Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?

  

  T. H. White

• When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.

  

  George Burns
  • Boy
  • Sick
  • Dead Sea