Burandt Backcountry Quotes & Sayings

I know the fashion is that everything is fair game [for comedy material] but I don't believe that. — Craig Ferguson

Super-successf ul people aren't the most gifted people in their fields. They just work, study and practice more than the competition. — Jack Canfield

Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate, so smashed what was left to be smashed. — Anthony Burgess

Not adding value is the same as taking it away. — Seth Godin

Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their pleasure ... There is no taste which deserves the epithet good, unless it be the taste for such employments which, to the pleasure actually produced by them, conjoin some contingent or future utility: there is no taste which deserves to be characterized as bad, unless it be a taste for some occupation which has mischievous tendency. — Jeremy Bentham

A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

A good story conveys a message that strengthens our values. — Ronald R. Cooke

The tickling narrative, unlike the sexual narrative, has no climax.
Is the tickling scene, at its most reassuring, not a unique representation of desire and, at its most unsettling, a paradigm of the perverse contract?
Does it not highlight, this delightful game, the impossibility of satisfaction and of reunion, with its continual reenactment of the irresistible attraction and the inevitable repulsion of the object, in which the final satisfaction is frustration? — Adam Phillips

Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings. — Sherwood Anderson

At age 43, when I decided to run again, I realized that the images used to describe runners didn't fit me. I wasn't a rabbit. I wasn't a gazelle or a cheetah or any of the other animals that run fast and free. But I wasn't a turtle or a snail either. I wasn't content anymore to move slowly through my life and hide in my shell when I was scared.
I was a round little man with a heavy heart but a hopeful spirit. I didn't really run, or even jog. I waddled. I was a Penguin. This was the image that fit. Emperor-proud, I stand tallto face the elements of my life. Yes, I am round. Yes, I am slow. Yes, I run as thought my legs are tied together at the knees. But I am running. And that is all that matters. — John Bingham

There was no pride, pomp, or circumstance of glorious war in this poor, domestic strife, this seemingly sordid and unheroic, miserably unheroic, yet high, eternal contest! — George MacDonald