Samuel Burris Quotes & Sayings

I like good company, but I like hard work still better. — Camille Saint-Saens

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. — Daniel J. Boorstin

When you start writing, you have your characters on a metaphorical paved road, and as they go down it, all these other roads become available that they can go down. And a lot of writers have roadblocks in front of those roads: they won't allow their characters to go down those roads. I've never put any roadblocks on any of these paths. My characters can go wherever they would naturally go, and I'll follow them. — Quentin Tarantino

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. — Thomas Haynes Bayly

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it made companies and consumers very unsure about future income, and so led them to stop spending as they waited for more information. — Christina Romer

I would bet there is no place in the United States where the First Amendment would survive intact. — Nat Hentoff

It takes leaders to grow other leaders. — Roy Blunt