Burgess Lighting Quotes & Sayings

I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control. — Stephen Harper

However multilingual we may be as readers, we find ourselves faced with a fundamental, inescapable responsibility. We must understand that any book & especially a great one is a complex & highly personal exchange between its writer & its readers. None of us reads precisely the same book, even if the words are identical. Readers too, are part of the ongoing process of translation that begins in the author's mind. — Michael Cunningham

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered. — W. H. Auden

Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking, 'Well, there's a cultural mainstream which flows neatly in one direction. You just align with it'. And that really won't do. — Rowan Williams

It occurs to me that my memory of him was a poor substitute for the real thing. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

I am floating, I thought, completely without anchor, at the mercy of the wind. — S.J. Watson

Knowledge of any value can't be given. It must be sought and earned — Rick Riordan

I have to spend the rest of my life finding ways to deserve a certain white-haired girl. She's very prickly, occasionally puts goose droppings in my shoes or tries to kill me. — Leigh Bardugo