Ian Burden (Ian Charles Burden) Quotes

I was always drawing and painting throughout childhood. And also building things with Lego bricks. When I got into music as a teenager I was always intrigued by the artwork on album packaging. I later went to art school, and also studied art history at degree level. It’s a lifelong interest.

Ian Burden The Human League

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• In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • World
  • Job
  • Opinion

• We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Change
  • Satisfied
  • Betray

• Good sports facilities are a blessing.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Blessing

• A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • She
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Question
  • Teacher

• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Want
  • Me
  • Comedy

• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Time
  • Real
  • Documentary

• On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Great
  • Night
  • Lost

• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Process

• I liked George Weiss when he was with the Yankees. He loved the Old Timers' Day. He loved it. And he invited all these people to come, all these players to come.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Day
  • Loved

• Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Family
  • Listening

• Lawyer even sounds like liar.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Lawyer
  • Liar

• The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Charity

• In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Long
  • America
  • Black

• She had a very agreeable smile; it did not light up her face suddenly, but seemed rather to suffuse it by degrees with charm. It hesitated for a moment about her lips and then slowly travelled to those great shining eyes of hers and there softly lingered.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • She

• Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Money
  • Man

• What was needed was a literary theory which, while preserving the formalist bent of New Criticism, its dogged attention to literature as aesthetic object rather than social practice, would make something a good deal more systematic and 'scientific' out of all this. The answer arrived in 1957, in the shape of the Canadian Northrop Fryes mighty 'totalization' of all literary genres, Anatomy of Criticism .

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Attention
  • Literature
  • Criticism

• There is no real happiness in having or getting, but only in giving.

  

  Nathan Eldon Tanner
  • Giving
  • Happiness
  • Getting

• Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Music
  • Painting

• And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.

  

  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Change
  • Painting
  • Should

• I was always drawing and painting throughout childhood. And also building things with Lego bricks. When I got into music as a teenager I was always intrigued by the artwork on album packaging. I later went to art school, and also studied art history at degree level. It’s a lifelong interest.

  

  Ian Burden The Human League
  • Painting
  • Interest
  • Lifelong