Burrial Quotes & Sayings

How has podcasting changed things? A lot of people ask me if I feel I should be more famous. — Paul F. Tompkins

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. — Samuel Butler

The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man. — William Ames

True culture is in the mind, the mind," he said, and tapped his head, "the mind." "It's in the heart," she said, "and in how you do things and how you do things is because of who you are." "Nobody in the damn bus cares who you are." "I care who I am," she said icily. — Flannery O'Connor

Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable. — Milan Kundera

Offended self-love never forgives. — Giovanni Ruffini

In this same library we saw some drawings by Michael Angelo (these Italians call him Mickel Angelo,) and Leonardo da Vinci. (They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.) — Mark Twain

Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why — Kamand Kojouri

If only memory were a library with everything stored where it should be. If only you could walk to the desk and say to the assistant, I'd like to return the painful memories about David Fry or indeed his mother and take out some happier ones, please. About stickleback fishing with my father. Or picnicking on the banks of the Cherwell when I was a student. And the assistant would say, Certainly, madam. We have all those. Under "F" for "Fishing." As well as "P" for "Picnicking." You'll find them on your left. — Rachel Joyce

I find that writing unit tests actually increases my programming speed — Martin Fowler

In my sick brain, gruesome violence and comedy go as hand-to-hand together as anything else in the world. — Seth Rogen