Burgertown Quotes & Sayings

So much beauty in the world, so few eyes to see it. — Albert Cossery

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God. — Alexander Pope

You English," said Steenhold.

"You Americans," said Rud.

"When you aren't as fresh as paint," he said, "you Americans are as stale as old cabbage leaves. I'm amazed at your Labour leaders, at the sort of things you can still take seriously as Presidential Candidates. These leonine reverberators tossing their manes back in order to keep their eyes on the White House -- they belong to the Pleistocene. We dropped that sort of head in England after John Bright. When the Revolution is over and I retire, I shall retire as Hitler did, to some remote hunting-lodge, and we'll have the heads of Great Labour Leaders and Presidential Hopes stuck all round the Hall. Hippopotami won't be in it. — H.G.Wells

Larry had brought me blue jeans, a red polo shirt, jogging socks, my white Nikes, an extra cross from my suitcase, the silver knives, the Firestar complete with inner pants holster, and the Browning and its shoulder holster. He'd forgotten a bra, but hey, except for that it was perfect. — Laurell K. Hamilton

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music. — Steve Lacy

Reality is recognized in its wholeness only as it shatters to bits. — Semezdin Mehmedinovic

We can change by changing our attitudes and patterns of behavior. In so doing, we change our destiny. — Isabel M. Hickey