Top 68 Burbank Quotes
#1. I love Hugh Laurie, but I don't want to be a guy who goes to work every day for nine months of the year in a corner of Burbank. I really don't. I like doing a bit here and a bit there and strange things, and I think that's held me back.
Peter Capaldi
#2. My mom worked for Lockheed Corp. in Burbank as an inspector of airplane parts. To help make ends meet, Dee, a friend of my mom's from Lockheed, moved in. She was a lovely person and helped with our care for many years.
Rene Russo
#3. Bryan - a great friend of mine, by the way - had a Neanderthal type of head, Burbank says. As to Riley, he has not even the oratorical skill of Bryan. The whole movement is based on the poor whites of the south.
Luther Burbank
#4. I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.
Rene Russo
#5. Who would have thought that in the 1950s, Burbank was a hotbed of international espionage?
Annie Jacobsen
#6. I was born on October 21, 1956 in Burbank, California. My father, Eddie Fisher, was a famous singer. My mother, Debbie Reynolds, was a movie star. Her best-known role was in 'Singin' In The Rain.'
Carrie Fisher
#7. I have a very tiny house in Burbank. I drive an 8-year-old car. I'm gonna drive it into the ground. I enjoy what I enjoy.
Patton Oswalt
#8. Paradox Walnut: Burbank took a slow growing Walnut tree and made it grow fast, thus the name "Paradox".
Museum thought it was dead and cut off a branch. It was alive. OOPS!
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
#9. I have sat in with the Burbank Philharmonic and the Topanga Orchestra when they need someone if someone gets sick or something.
Torrey DeVitto
#10. For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.
Peter Gould
#11. When I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a really bad run. I would sleep in my car during the day outside the Disney building in Burbank, and that's where I got my first job, which is really weird. I liked to stay around the studios and kind of get the good vibes going.
Camille Guaty
#12. A normal day of working in Burbank is 14 hours, sometimes more. On 'The Revenant' sometimes it was eight hours, but we were shooting only five. So they were short days, but they were very strenuous because of the weather. And it was very dark.
Emmanuel Lubezki
#13. I used to have a group called Bad-Movie Saturday. Every Saturday, six of us would go see the worst movie that came out each weekend. It'd be noon in Burbank. It was just a running commentary. All executives - we would each talk through the movie and make jokes.
Jason Reitman
#14. I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
Tim Burton
#15. You're taking the bus around Burbank?" Lester said. "Christ, Perry, this is Los Angeles. Even homeless people drive cars.
Cory Doctorow
#16. I can win anytime. Kevin's going to go back to Burbank and tell everybody in his cubicle how he won at the Golden Nugget. Sometimes the pot isn't the money.
Heidi Cullinan
#17. All my work has come about through a change in my earlier opinion of religion.
Luther Burbank
#18. Most people's religion is what they want to believe, not what they do believe.
Luther Burbank
#19. I am an infidel today. I do not believe what has been served to me to believe. I am a doubter, a questioner, a skeptic. When it can be proved to me that there is immortality, that there is resurrection beyond the gates of death, then will I believe. Until then, no.
Luther Burbank
#20. Listen patiently, quietly and reverently to the lessons, one by one, which Mother Nature has to teach, shedding light on that which was before a mystery, so that all who will, may see and know.
Luther Burbank
#21. I have learned from Nature that dependence on unnatural beliefs weakens us in the struggle and shortens our breath for the race.
Luther Burbank
#22. Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.
Luther Burbank
#23. The lure of happiness and the fear of pain ... are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction.
Luther Burbank
#24. As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.
Luther Burbank
#25. Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
Luther Burbank
#26. The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.
Luther Burbank
#27. If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.
Luther Burbank
#28. Science ... has opened our eyes to the vastness of the universe and given us light, truth and freedom from fear where once was darkness, ignorance and superstition. There is no personal salvation, except through science.
Luther Burbank
#29. I am an infidel. I know what an infidel is, and that's what I am.
Luther Burbank
#30. Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature.
Luther Burbank
#31. Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
Luther Burbank
#32. The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.
Luther Burbank
#34. Thinking is the greatest torture in the world for most people.
Luther Burbank
#35. Obsolete misleading theologies bear the same relation to the essence of true religion that scarlet fever, mumps, and measles do to education.
Luther Burbank
#36. In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
Luther Burbank
#38. Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be enough for one who lives for truth and service to his fellow passengers on the way.
Luther Burbank
#39. Work hard for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, not to impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.
Sally Willard Burbank
#41. The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.
Luther Burbank
#42. Science, unlike theology, never leads to insanity.
Luther Burbank
#43. The time has come for honest men to denounce false teachers and attack false gods.
Luther Burbank
#44. Euripides long ago said, 'who dares not speak his free thought is a slave.' I nominated myself as an 'infidel' as a challenge to thought for those who are asleep.
Luther Burbank
#46. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.
Luther Burbank
#47. Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.
Luther Burbank
#48. Men should stop fighting among themselves and start fighting insects.
Luther Burbank
#49. Heredity: the traits that a disobedient child gets from the other parent.
Luther Burbank
#51. If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.
Luther Burbank
#52. Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.
Luther Burbank
#53. If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.
Luther Burbank
#54. The clear light of science teaches us that we must be our own saviors, if we are to be found worth saving.
Luther Burbank
#55. Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.
Luther Burbank
#56. The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.
Luther Burbank
#57. The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of insanity, superstition gone to seed! I want no part of such a God.
Luther Burbank
#58. The serenity produced by the contemplation and philosophy of nature is the only remedy for prejudice, superstition, and inordinate self-importance, teaching us that we are all a part of Nature herself, strengthening the bond of sympathy which should exist between ourselves and our brother man ...
Luther Burbank
#59. If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then ... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.
Luther Burbank
#60. It is well for people who think, to change their minds ocasionally in order to keep them clean.
Luther Burbank
#61. Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.
Luther Burbank
#62. Science, which is only another name for truth, now holds religious charlatans, self-deceivers and God agents in a certain degree of check
agents and employees, I mean, of a mythical, medieval, man-made God, anthropomorphic in constitution.
Luther Burbank
#63. You can't become a star just by watching one on TV. Dream big and go for your goals!
Koltn Burbank
#64. What is the use of assuring Fundamentalists that science is compatible with religion. They retort at once, Certainly not with our religion.
Luther Burbank
#65. Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject. The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think.
Luther Burbank
#66. I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.
Luther Burbank
#67. The integrity of one's own mind is of infinitely more value than adherence to any creed or system. We must choose between a dead faith belonging to the past and a living, growing ever-advancing science belonging to the future.
Luther Burbank
#68. Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and reason ...
Luther Burbank
