Burford Quotes & Sayings

We called ourselves the Burfords - Reverend Burford, Grandfather Burford, Cousin Burford, and so on. — Dick Van Dyke

As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look. — Eric Daman

There is a saying, if any stranger enquire of the first met of Maan, were it even a child, "Who is here the sheykh?" he would answer him "I am he. — Charles M. Doughty

Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial. — T.F. Hodge

The brooch was a cheap bauble, but one with powerful sentimental value. Not that Irene was the sentimental type, aside from the smother-love she lavished on her toy poodle, but she'd known Colette her whole life. They'd grown up in the same grimy apartment house in Bay Ridge and had at one time — Pamela Burford

Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions. — Saul Bellow

I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes. — Joshua Cohen

That's how you live. You participate. You take risks. — Damian Woetzel

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people. — Clifton Collins Jr.

And Burford needs a momma. — Kristen Ashley

Suffering means being cut off from God. Therefore those who live in communion with him cannot really suffer. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I was not living but actively dying. — Augusten Burroughs

Though I am still ... exceedingly puzzled as to why our murderer should decide to draw almost inevitable attention to himself by wearing such a conspicuous pair of plimsolls and running around Burford for two and a half hours. — Colin Dexter

Nowadays you have to be a scientist if you want to be a killer. No, no, I was neither. Ladies and gentleman of the jury, the majority of sex offenders that hanker for some throbbing, sweet-moaning, physical but not necessarily coital, relation with a girl-child, are innocuous, inadequate, passive, timid strangers who merely ask the community to allow them to pursue their practically harmless, so-called aberrant behavior, their little hot wet private acts of sexual deviation without the police and society cracking down upon them. We are not sex fiends! We do not rape as good soldiers do. We are unhappy, mild, dog-eyed gentlemen, sufficiently well integrated to control our urge in the presence of adults, but ready to give years and years of life for one chance to touch a nymphet. Emphatically, no killers are we. Poets never kill. — Vladimir Nabokov

I see now that the unnamed soldier is a gift. The named soldier - dead, melted wax - demands a response among the living ... a response no one can make. Names are no comfort, they're a call to answer the unanswerable. Why did she die, not him? Why do the survivors remain anonymous - as if cursed - while the dead are revered? Why do we cling to what we lose while we ignore what we still hold? — Steven Erikson

I keep on saying, being moderate is fundamental to Islam. — Najib Razak