Burgus Plus Quotes & Sayings

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host. — Theophrastus

We approach the house and I wave at Jimmy.
"And if he thinks he's eating with us, he's got another thing coming," my dad says.
Jimmy approaches us and takes the shopping bags from me, looking inside them.
"Lamb roast. Am I invited? — Melina Marchetta

Scars, though, left wounds on the inside of you, and as with skin that didn't heal right, you still felt the rough spots from time to time. — J.R. Ward

Giger's work disturbs us, spooks us, because of its enormous evolutionary time span. It shows us, all too clearly, where we come from and where we are going. — Timothy Leary

One of the best rules anybody can learn about investing is to do nothing, absolutely nothing, unless there is something to do. I just wait until there is money lying in the corner, and all I have to do is go over there and pick it up. I wait for a situation that is like the proverbial shooting fish in a barrel. — Jim Rogers

When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid. — M.E. Kerr

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Forty years ago, after many years of successful use of thyroid therapy, leading gynecologists in this country and elsewhere were reporting thyroid had cured more menstrual disorders than all other medications combined. Unfortunately, that lesson seems to have been largely lost. — Broda Otto Barnes

We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility. — Daniel Beaty

Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson's son Blanket must have felt — John Waters

If wishes were horses mine would be glue - — Carrie Fisher

It's all I want, to be beside you, helping you. If it takes forever, all the better, if it's forever with you. — Laini Taylor