Burndy Lugs Quotes & Sayings

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes. — Robert Palmer

Few of us have chosen our clubs, they have simply been presented to us; and so as they slip from Second Division to the Third, or sell their best players, or buy players who you know can't play, or bash the ball the seven hundreth time towards a nine foot centre-forward, we simply curse, go home, worry for a fortnight and then come back to suffer all over again. — Nick Hornby

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit. — Mike Rutherford

Down, everybody! Down on all fours! We're going to show you our new step! Like this: just swing your up and - — Samuel R. Delany

Any man who goes into anything in life and does it better than the average will have a successful life. If he does it worse than the average, his life will not be successful. And no business can exist in which success cannot be won on that basis. — Charles M. Schwab

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson. — Bryan Greenberg

If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment. — D.T. Suzuki

We accept it as normal that people who have never been on the land, who have no history or connection to the country, may legally secure the right to come in and, by the very nature of their enterprises, leave in their wake a cultural and physical landscape utterly transformed and desecrated. What's more, in granting such mining concessions, often initially for trivial sums to speculators from distant cities, companies cobbled together with less history than my dog, the government places no cultural or market value on the land itself. — Wade Davis

I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing. — Ruth Rendell

Chivalry does not imply that women are powerless. On the contrary, chivalry is an admission of women's superiority. — Beth Fantaskey

The price you pay for your addiction to praise will be an extreme vulnerability to the opinions of others. Like any addict, you will find you must continue to feed your habit with approval in order to avoid withdrawal pangs. The moment someone who is important to you expresses disapproval, you will crash painfully, just like the junkie who can no longer get his "stuff." Others will be able to use this vulnerability to manipulate you. You will have to give in to their demands more often than you want to because you fear they might reject or look down on you. You set yourself up for emotional blackmail. — David D. Burns

Your kisses are mine. — Sylvia Day

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts. — John Cheever

You can't rock the boat & act like you were just trying to put a baby to sleep. — Curtis Tyrone Jones