Burtenshaw Lecture Quotes & Sayings

Anger is precious. A silverback uses his anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. When my father beat his chest, it was to say, Beware, listen, I am in charge. I am angry to protect you, because that is what I was born to do.
Here in my domain, there is no one to protect. — Katherine Applegate

He's going to be what?! Oh for God's sake. Sir David Beckham? You're having a laugh. He's just a good footballer with a famous bird. — Ian Holloway

Amazon can't be all good or all bad. I don't think that everything they do is evil; they've given a lot of authors access. — Scott Turow

I worry about Las Vegas schools. I hear in math, they only teach them to count to 21. — Rita Rudner

My parents ... had decided early on that all of the problems in my family had somehow to do with me. All roads led to Roseyville, a messy, chaotic town where, as parents, they were required to visit, but could never get out of quick enough or find a decent parking place. — Roseanne Barr

I'm not afraid of death, just of dying. — Duane Hewitt

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle. — Che Guevara

To create is, first and foremost, to create time. — Achille Mbembe

Perhaps everything you say is true and these are the death throes of the human race, but even if that was true, I would not lose faith. There must be hope, and I must fight for my Emperor against Chaos and it's servants.

That is insanity.

Wrong, it's being human. — Ben Counter