Burnie Thompson Quotes & Sayings

Never trust a man who bites the heads off chickens is probably a good sound rule of practice. — Kerry Greenwood

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me. — Rick Riordan

Consciousness is always drawn to the most distracting object: the bumped toe, the loud noise, or the hurting heart. — Michael A. Singer

One of the five new replacements went right on guard duty. He was hit in the neck within forty-five minutes. I don't know if he lived, but he never did come back. His war was pretty short.

- Don Bond — Marcus Brotherton

High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible. — Immanuel Kant

Meanwhile, we blew each other's minds (and other parts) in our new bedroom last night. Then we passed out and slept for nine hours in our brand new king-sized bed. — Sarina Bowen

People tell me the Netflix series, House of Cards, is sort of like my class come to life. The movie Margin Call portrays the realities of hierarchical relationships and rivalries beautifully, and how people respond when under pressure. Gandhi and Long Walk to Freedom both have the virtue of presenting larger-than-life figures in a more realistic way, showing their flaws and contradictions - their humanity - in a way that is very helpful. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

Life is perfect as long as you didn't cheat. — Ayette Roa

Every day when you wake up, ask yourself, 'What do I really, really, really want? ' You have to say really, really, really, otherwise you won't believe it. — Elizabeth Gilbert

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. — Antony Jay

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live. — Bob Riley

The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.
"Well," said Jack at last. "What do you think? Shall we run away, and live on the secret island?"
"Yes!" whispered all the children.
"Let's! — Enid Blyton