Burcher Law Quotes & Sayings

The queen also toyed with the idea of making the whole of St. James's Park private, and asked her prime minister, Robert Walpole, how much that would cost. "Only a crown, Madam," he replied with a thin smile. — Bill Bryson

I hope to be involved in a successful movie script. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Ryan, when did you get a girlfriend?" his sister asked.
"She's not my girlfriend, Kaylen," Ryan replied. "Go away. — S. Walden

I am sorry to disturb you,' said James politely, 'but these people wished to shoot us. — Evelyn Waugh

What made me pick up a guitar? It weighed a lot less than a piano. — Ronnie Montrose

Atheism is a religion the way abstinence is a sex position. — Bill Maher

A bed has never been required for your dick to find its way inside me." "No, it hasn't, — Laurelin Paige

The more wit the less courage. — Thomas Fuller

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can. — Neal Shusterman

Some boys feel they are like girls,
They are gentle, and like their hair in curls. — Christina Engela

Deferral of gratification may be an effect, not a cause. Just because some children were more effective than others at distracting themselves from [the marshmallow in the famous Marshmallow Test] doesn't mean this capacity was responsible for the impressive results found ten years later. Instead, both of these things may have been due to something about their home environment. If that's true, there's no reason to believe that enhancing children's ability to defer gratification would be beneficial: It was just a marker, not a cause. By way of analogy, teenagers who visit ski resorts over winter break probably have a superior record of being admitted to the Ivy League. Should we therefore hire consultants to teach low-income children how to ski in order to improve the odds that colleges will accept them? — Alfie Kohn

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels. — Caryl Chessman

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself. — Elbert Hubbard

Tomorrow is not an option, and yesterday was too late. — Douglas Harvey