Burros Con Quotes & Sayings

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

It's amazing the amount of anger, hostility and hatred some people show towards those of us who want to leave them in freedom. Hysterically, some statists characterize that as the voluntaryists trying to "force" their views on everyone else. "You're oppressing me, by leaving me alone, and wanting me to leave you alone!" Meanwhile, they wildly cheer when some politician promises to extort and control them. Go figure. — Larken Rose

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

The joke was that President Bush only declared war when Starbucks was hit. You can mess with the U.N. all you want, but when you start interfering with the right to get caffeinated, someone has to pay. — Chris Kyle

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

In the maxims of the law, God is seen as the rewarder of perfect righteousness and the avenger of sin. But in Christ, His face shines out, full of grace and gentleness to poor, unworthy sinners. — John Calvin

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

To him, I am the cheap pair of sunglasses you buy on vacation because you know you won't care if you break or lose them — Shaun David Hutchinson

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

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

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

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

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator. — Barack Obama

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

I'm not like a champion of profanity. I write what I hear, and the characters that I write, that's how they talk. That's how I talk a lot of the time. So I'm not trying to advance a social cause. — Stephen Adly Guirgis

Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. — T. S. Eliot

In the fall of 1972, President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection. — Hugo Rossi

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

Acting is acting. — Brent Spiner

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

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