Burkes Repo Quotes & Sayings

The only time I sat up from lying down was to get out of bed.
Or get some chocolate.
Or a book. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The door of Reverend Verringer's impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a pine plank; the Reverend is unmarried, and has need of an irreproachable housekeeper. Simon is ushered into the library. It is so self-consciously the right sort of library that he has an urge to set fire to it. — Margaret Atwood

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity ... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today. — Gerard Arpey

The world is full of broken people who think they are surrounded by whole people. — Greg Garrett

I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I do not intend to discuss that point. We of the staple and exporting States have long settled the question for ourselves, almost unanimously, from sad experience. — John C. Calhoun

I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot. — Kangana Ranaut

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference. — Parker J. Palmer

I had a son and I breathed for him. When we buried him my sorrow consumed me. Was my grief holy? Was it unique? All our hurts and follies are repeated time and again. Generation after generation live the same mistakes. But we're not like the fire, or the river, or the wind - we're not a single tune, its variations played out forever, a game of numbers until the world dies. — Mark Lawrence

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too. — Hattie Morahan

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe. — Billy Graham

18"And when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself in a book a copy of this law, approved by [40] the Levitical priests. 19And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the LORD his God by keeping all the words of this law and these statutes, and doing them, 20that his heart may not be lifted up above his brothers, — Anonymous

My eyes lingered on her naked body for several minutes. Was our relationship what she wanted? Was it satisfying for her? Was it what she dreamed of when she started falling in love with me? Did reality ever fulfill our dreams? Or do dreams just continually set us up for failure and disappointment? — T.B. Markinson

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not. — Gloria Steinem

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman. — Taylor Momsen