Burros Quotes & Sayings

This place is as dead as dice. Nothing safer to rob than a grave, if you can push past the creep factor. — H.L. Burke

The turkeys that most Americans eat for Thanksgiving are turkeys - losers that are mass produced and bland. — Marian Burros

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale. — Marian Burros

She didn't say anything - at least, not with her mouth. Her eyes told me a different story. The only problem was that they each had a thousand tongues talking, each in a language I didn't speak. — J.X. Burros

Soon the two children will walk down Edgehill Road from the bus stop like burros under their knapsacks, — Elizabeth Alexander

He was right, and the pursuit of justice was also a game, where one man or woman employed by the Government, or sometimes twelve men and women, decided the fate of another. Whether or not that decision was just depended on your point of view. The winner usually thought it was a just result: The loser bore the consequences. — Kenneth Eade

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing? — Marian Burros

That boy is still here ... He's just waiting for that girl to come back — J.X. Burros

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them. — J.X. Burros

I never left because a part of me will always be in that house ... — J.X. Burros

The biggest problem with Bill Schutz's food is his timidity with herbs and spices and some bizarre primeval fear of salt. — Marian Burros

Part of making a good decision is just making a decision. You can't always sit and weigh the pros and cons. There just isn't time for that. Making a good decision means sticking with your choice and dealing with what comes with it. Being able to deal with the consequences - that's making a good decision. — J.X. Burros

Some things are beyond human understanding. — Alexandra Adornetto

I'm going to enjoy this."
"What?" I asked. "Hell? — J.X. Burros

While guilt over sinfulness can often lead to repentance, shame leads to indifference, intolerance, lack of vulnerability, and lack of intimacy with others as it burros its way further into our minds. — Tyler Braun

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it. — Cate Blanchett

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy. — Marian Burros

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book. — Gary Jennings

A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make. — Martin Luther King Jr.

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it. — Bruce Robinson

I thought there were moments to complain about your parents and moments to be grateful, and it was a shame to mix those moments up. — Karen Joy Fowler

Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake. — Marian Burros

This has got to be the most expensive food ever laminated. — Marian Burros

Who is your teacher? If you give only one name, then you are not a good student! And who is a good student? He is whose teacher is everyone and everything! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

And Miriam also refused to be approached. She was afraid of being set at nought, as by her own brothers. The girl was romantic in her soul. Everywhere was a Walter Scott heroine being loved by men with helmets or with plumes in their caps. She herself was something of a princess turned into a swine-girl in her own imagination. And she was afraid lest this boy, who, nevertheless, looked something like a Walter Scott hero, who could paint and speak French, and knew what algebra meant, and who went by train to Nottingham every day, might consider her simply as the swine-girl, unable to perceive the princess beneath; so she held aloof. — D.H. Lawrence

Once you experience a major loss and survive, everything else after that you lose seems petty and doesn't affect you much. — Himmilicious

Folk-tales are, at best, generally no more than lies set in rhyme. — Stephen King

I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power. — Paul Wellstone

Fish sticks and beef stew that millions of children love to hate. — Marian Burros

Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it. — Barry Farber

When a ball goes into a net it only means something because we decided it means something. When somebody punches somebody in the face it always means something. — Joe Rogan

Americans may be drinking fewer alcoholic beverages, but they are certainly eating more of them than ever before. Wittingly or un. — Marian Burros

Love gives you the strength to face an army, vampire or human ... Love gives you a reason to press on through the storm. Love helps you think clearly and follow the clues ahead, if you know where they lead. — J.X. Burros

You burros have calculus in your blood. — Jaime Escalante

How you, a weak boy caught in the middle of a storm, both in reality and metaphorically, would risk your life to save some girl - some girl who tortured you, ignored you, destroyed you. — J.X. Burros

Love makes you stupid. Love makes you weak. Love will kill you all one day, and it's going to kill you today. — J.X. Burros