Promulgator Burlington Quotes & Sayings

My wretched passions were acute, smarting, from my continual, sickly irritability I had hysterical impulses, with tears and convulsions. I had no resource except reading, that is, there was nothing in my surroundings which I could respect and which attracted me. I was overwhelmed with depression, too; I had an hysterical craving for incongruity and for contrast, and so I took to vice. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What's your name?"
"What do you want it to be?"
"Are you a vampire?"
"Not the last time I checked. — Kresley Cole

Genesis 1 is an account of the nature of the world and its origins as its author perceived it. Moreover, his culturally conditioned perceptions and beliefs about the world and its origin were then projected onto the god of his composition so that, in turn, it is God who then creates the world that he himself, our author, perceived and experienced. These — Steven Dimattei

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery. — Henry Miller

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling - a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing. — Stephen King

States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights today are not seeking the protection of the individual citizen, but his exploitation ... The time is long past - if indeed it ever existed - when we should permit the noble concept of States' rights to be betrayed and corrupted into a slogan to hide the bald denial of American rights, of civil rights, and of human rights. — Robert F. Kennedy

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole. — Wendy Wasserstein

I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes. — Tom Odell

HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging. — Ambrose Bierce

Hey - what did we say? Cool it on the fuck-talk, okay?"
Sebastian's expression went directly to affronted.
"So what was I supposed to say there? We want to take her out to a ball game?"
"Just don't say fuck!"
"Fine - Bobbi, we just want to make love to you. We want to make love your brains out. — Charlotte Stein

Of all America's natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony. — Markham Shaw Pyle

All that will ever be has already been written long before it happens. There is nothing we can do to stop it. — Alice Hoffman

It takes an awful lot of character to quit anything when you are losing, — William Faulkner

Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in ways that make others think. It is a fault, I fear, that has come with age. — Cheryl Matthynssens

I had rather that the human race, having a certain quality in their lives, should continue for only a few centuries than that, losing freedom, friendship, dignity, and mercy, and learning to be quite content without them, they should continue for millions of millennia. — C.S. Lewis