Abe Burrows Quotes

#1. My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy Hunting,' 'Reclining Figure,' it goes on. He was a legend, and when I was growing up, I was Abe Burrows' kid. That was my self-esteem.

James Burrows

#2. Glamour: the indefinable something about a girl with a big bosom.

Abe Burrows

#3. ENOUGH, pro. All there is in the world if you like it.

Ambrose Bierce

#4. And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Robert Fripp

#5. No one had ever talked about me that way, like I was so close to perfect the imperfections were washed away. I

Nicole Williams

#6. You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.

Abe Burrows

#7. When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the cowpats into her beloved flower beds.

Geraldine Brooks

#8. My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.

Rachel Boston

#9. I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

Zara Phillips

#10. Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.

Abe Burrows

#11. Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh ... he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.

A.S. Byatt

#12. Cussed fellow-critters! Kick up de damndest row as ever you can; fill your dam bellies 'till dey bust - and den die

Herman Melville

#13. Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Liu Bolin

#14. If you have to ask if a clothing item is a dress or a top, it is always a top.

Tim Gunn

#15. A good practice is to ask yourself very sincerely, 'Why was I born?' Ask yourself this question in the morning, in the afternoon, and at night ... every day.

Ajahn Chah

#16. You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.

Abe Burrows

#17. Everyone is so obsessed with themselves nowadays that they have no time for me.

Louise Rennison