Burrus House Quotes & Sayings

Gospel music in those days of the early 1930s was really taking wing. It was the kind of music colored people had left behind them down South and they liked it because it was just like a letter from home. — Mahalia Jackson

The belief in "government" is not based on reason; it is based on faith. — Larken Rose

Reading these books. Oh, the endless labor of the intellectual - pouring all this knowledge into the brain through a three-millimeter aperture in the iris. — Irvin D. Yalom

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. — Lady Bird Johnson

One in three all friends are:
Brothers in distress,
equals facing rivals,
free men - facing death! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Then it's just Venia, whose skin is so pale her tattoos appear to be leaping off it. Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. The whole time, she avoids my gaze. It's only when Cinna shows up to approve me and dismiss her that she takes my hands, looks me straight in the eye, and says, "We would all like you to know what a ... privilege it has been to make you look your best." Then she hastens from the room. — Suzanne Collins

The Strokes can play anything. They could play 'Thriller,' and it would just sound like 'Thriller' as played by the Strokes. — Julian Casablancas

Be unswervingly and eternally loyal to the story. — Isak Dinesen

The frontier I think makes brothers of us all — Eleanor Catton

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat. — Kirstie Alley

Easter is not about immortality but about resurrection from a death that is a real death with all its frightfulness and horrors, resurrection from a death of the body and the soul, of the whole person, resurrection by the power of God's mighty act. This is the Easter message. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[W]hen you find yourself face to face with one [Bondsmage], you bow and scrape and mind your 'sirs' and 'madams.'
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'Nice bird, asshole,' said Locke. — Scott Lynch

Beware of the anger of the body. Master the body. Let it serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mouth. Master your words. Let them serve truth. Beware of the anger of the mind. Master your thoughts. Let them serve truth. — Gautama Buddha

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us. — Steve Staunton

My basic position is that the more mixed the society and the more mobility there is in it, the better. That's what makes things interesting. When you get a homogenous society, it's very, very dull, whether that's all working class or all upper class, because everybody thinks the same, everybody looks the same. — Jarvis Cocker