Burton Raffel Quotes

Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong and brave, my noble King, protecting life and fame Together. My sword will fight at your side!

Burton Raffel

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• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Political
  • Religion

• My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Time
  • World
  • Man

• Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • Look
  • Winter
  • Fame

• I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • People
  • World
  • Day

• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • World
  • Just
  • Camera

• A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • World
  • Rest
  • Looking

• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I had a world of people raising me; it was like a little village.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Village

• Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Food
  • City

• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • World
  • Action
  • Contemplation

• There should be order if the development of the cyber world is to be sustainable.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • World
  • Development
  • Cyber

• The most fascinating part is how fashion just attracts all these social rejects, if you will, from around the world, encourages individuality. They're the people who make the industry tick.

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • World
  • Fashion

• I could do another tour, make a record that's very similar, do similar venues. Or I could make a different record, do different venues, and grow. It's exciting to take it to new places, but it's never been my intent to be the biggest thing in the world. That's not what my drive is. I want to make what I want to make, and make a living off it.

  

  Flume
  • World
  • Different
  • Want

• My friendships and relationships in the conservative world are not predicated on political correctness and enforced conformity of thought. They are based, instead, on mutual respect, honesty and understanding - concepts many modern liberals should consider revisiting.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • World
  • Political
  • Respect

• Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • World
  • True
  • Fear

• When it comes to granting unconditional birthright citizenship, the United States and Canada are alone in the industrialized world: North American exceptionalism, you can call it.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • World
  • American
  • Alone

• I think his portraits of Jackie, Liz, Marilyn, Mao, Elvis, Lenin - and objects like the soup cans, the dollar signs, the hammer and sickle, it's all about icons. Its all about what people worship in an irreligious or secular world. In terms of Andy's personality and Andy Warhol as a human being who I was very close to, I still feel kind of sorry for him on a personal level. I mean, he was the ultimate example of great success wrapped around inner turmoil and emotional pain.

  

  Bob Colacello
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• She wasn’t angry. You can’t get angry just because the world’s so much bigger than you and you’re stuck in it.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • World
  • You
  • Bigger

• It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.

  

  Anthony Head
  • Life
  • Destiny

• Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.

  

  Arthur Christiansen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • People
  • Problem
  • Dangerous

• Beloved Beowulf, remember how you boasted, Once, that nothing in the world would ever Destroy your fame; fight to keep it, Now, be strong and brave, my noble King, protecting life and fame Together. My sword will fight at your side!

  

  Burton Raffel
  • World
  • Fame
  • Destroy