Burgesses Def Quotes & Sayings

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure — George Eliot

In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments. — Nancy Kress

These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses. — Terence McKenna

Men, however distinguished by external accidents or intrinsick qualities, have all the same wants, the same pains, and, as far as the senses are consulted, the same pleasures. — Samuel Johnson

In this age when words have lost their value, this age that is therefore dominated by violent words, by words swollen and yellowed with starvation, I have lost the will to speak any more of words. My despair over words is not an admittance of defeat in life. — Kyung-Sook Shin

In my world, the wronger something feels, the righter it is, — Jerry Seinfeld

But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been. — Bruce McCulloch

Flesh is the Bible's word for unperfected human nature. Leaving off the "h" and spelling it in reverse, we have the word self. Flesh is the self-life: it is what we are when we are left to our own devices. — Billy Graham