Burrett Reading Quotes & Sayings

Unlike the summer sun,
my life has started to fade
Forsaken by the memories of thee,
which once shone like the jade.
My eyes elude the moist fear,
and are now as dry as hay
Melancholy cries are all I hear,
'Will you be there?' I daresay! — Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

God have mercy on the man
who doubts what he's sure of. — Bruce Springsteen

Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. — Marcel Proust

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. — Albert Einstein

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life. — Jeff Beck

All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. — H.P. Lovecraft

In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary
from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes. — Don DeLillo

God is love - He is gracious and forgives. — Jim George

Eight: the age of exploration, of ghosts and secret forays; the age at which a mystery lurks behind every curtain and every armoire opens into a magical world, which you may enter at any time, but who knows when you will return. — Carmen Posadas

Location is everything, I'd rather camp in the Lake District or Scotland than sit in a five-star hotel in Frankfurt. — Rory Bremner

Humble' is another way or saying 'simple' or 'poor' like we can't have fun; we can't roll up the rugs and dance, or tap the sap, or make decorations for a tree. It's pious and is just the sort of thing that lectures a room or depresses it, and you have to have a wall hanging because the old biddies say so, but you don't like it and you wish you didn't need it. In fact, you absolutely hate it. — Allan Dare Pearce

Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman. — Elizabeth Lesser