Burry Stander Quotes & Sayings

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor, — Eli Whitney

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows. — John Donne

Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots. — Sister Parish

All these screams All these voices in my head — Nicki Minaj

He didn't touch me. He could have - he had the perfect reason to - but he didn't.
Instead he bent to collect my papers before the breeze could whisk them away. Instead he picked up my satchel from the sidewalk and asked if I was okay. Instead he stood between me and the busy street while I brushed the dirt from my palms and tried to
swallow the knot of frustration stuck in my throat. Instead he just waited. I had the strange thought that he would wait forever. — Nina Lane

If I was a parent or a kid, I would need a cell phone, and those things are invaluable, but my kids are out of the house now, and I am thrilled when I wake up to not have a cell phone, and feel like today is stretching out in front of me for 1,000 hours, as it seems. — Pico Iyer

I absolutely loved being famous. It was all great, up until the point when it wasn't. — Noel Gallagher

Use familiar words-words that your readers will understand, and not words they will have to look up. No advice is more elementary, and no advice is more difficult to accept. When we feel an impulse to use a marvelously exotic word, let us lie down until the impulse goes away. — James J. Kilpatrick

Never allow the smallness of others to imprison you. — David Cartledge

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it. — Trent Reznor

God created man on purpose, and for a purpose. — Zig Ziglar

"Even from the point of view of coquetry, pure and simple," he had told her, "can't you see how much of your attraction you throw away when you stoop to lying? — Marcel Proust

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply. — Charles Caleb Colton