Lj Burrows Quotes & Sayings

The elasticity of Shakespeare is extraordinary. — Kenneth Branagh

Through TV and moving pictures a child may see more violence in thirty minutes than the average adult experiences in a lifetime. What children see on the screen is violence as an almost casual commonplace of daily living. Violence becomes the fundamental principle of society, the natural law of humanity. Killing is as common as taking a walk, a gun more natural than an umbrella. Children learn to take pride in force and to feel ashamed of ordinary sympathy. They are encouraged to forget that people have feelings. — Fredric Wertham

Sue had been told that tumors had developed in her liver and lungs. She had been in a deep depression for a while, but she finally followed Barb's advice to call me after various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy - she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the type of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.
Some of her evangelical friends had insisted sorrowfully that her nieces wouldn't get into heaven, since they were Jews, as was one of her sisters. I told her what I believe to be true - that there was not one chance in a million that the nieces wouldn't go to heaven, and if I was wrong, who would even want to go? I promised that if there was any problem, she and I would refuse to go. We'd organize.
"What kind of shitty heaven would that be, anyway?" she asked. — Anne Lamott

Everyone is either happy or dead. — Brandon Sanderson

Knowledge is as powerful as fire. The brighter it burns, the more it devours. — Jessica Cluess

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash ... nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates. — Ben Feldman

The world is not a shitty place, it's your perception of the world that is shitty — Steven Aitchison

I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. — W. Eugene Smith

Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die? — Alexander Pope

Maybe life isn't about seeing ourselves. Maybe it's about letting other people see us. — Rebekah Crane

some lipstick on his dipstick?" I — Sarina Bowen

I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; or something that I've spent a couple of years developing so it would be exactly the character and exactly in with a huge push behind it; or I would maybe want to do a sitcom; something light and funny. — Jennifer Love Hewitt