Al Burian Quotes

#1. In India nearly everybody spoke metaphorically except the English who spoke bluntly and could make their most transparent lies look honest as a consequence; whereas any truth contained in these metaphorical rigmaroles was so deviously presented that it looked devious itself.

Paul Scott

#2. Professional golfer ... what a life.

Billy Bush

#3. I want to be in fifth grade again. Now, that is a deep dark secret, almost as big as the other one. Fifth grade was easy
old enough to play outside without Mom, too young to go off the block. The perfect leash length.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#4. The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

Stephen King

#5. I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.

Tim Robbins

#6. Whose vow can you abide by? You can take a vow of an idol, because an idol has no ownership. You can abide by a vow of a living being, provided he is not the owner of his body, however if he is the owner of his body, you cannot take his vow, because one day he will make you stumble.

Dada Bhagwan

#7. I write titles of songs a lot. sometimes I'll end up writing a song that I don't have a title for and I'll say, 'Oh, this goes with that title.

Shuggie Otis

#8. Places grow to have meaning in your life from experience, from the process of connecting. The inevitable contemplation of commemorative tattoos follows.

Al Burian

#9. Timing is everything when you're about to tell someone you dreamed him into your heart.

Tarryn Fisher

#10. I think Aussies try to stay humble.

Teresa Palmer

#11. Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"
Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author."

Neil Gaiman

#12. In most respects a pretty standard student domicile, there was something very unnerving about the apartment, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Eventually I realized: the light in the bathroom never turns off.

Al Burian

#13. 'First Light' has gotten a reputation as a kind of cult classic about science. I never really intended it to be read as a science book, but books, like children, have a way of choosing their own friends.

Richard Preston

#14. People want to feel what they do makes a difference.

Frances Hesselbein

#15. Think about the physical act of pulling a trigger. The amount of pressure it takes to pull a trigger or the speed it takes to shove a sharp object into somebody. The psychology behind it. Why people kill? Why people don't kill?

Milo Ventimiglia

#16. There will be a quick rash of hairy American filth, but it shouldn't threaten the existence of decent, serious British filth.

John Osborne

#17. ... in this place everything is forbidden, not for hidden reasons, but because the camp has been created for that purpose.

Primo Levi