Burleigh Quotes

#1. It's not as if it'd taste any different under all that curry," said Burleigh. "I was at a dinner in their embassy once, and do you know what they made me eat? It was a sheep's -

Terry Pratchett

#2. Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connections with the hidden history of the connection between Francis Bacon and Elizabeth.

Mark Rylance

#3. The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

Samuel Smiles

#4. Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another - sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself - while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.

Isaac Asimov

#5. I am only at home in the present.

Gore Vidal

#6. A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.

Edgar Wallace

#7. Modern armies are obsessed with the military learning cycle, of learning from past 'best practice' and mistakes. The problem is which part of the past provides the lessons.

Michael Burleigh

#8. I guess people don't understand how much you can be happy by simply talking with the right person.

Sarvesh Jain

#9. The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!

Erik Weihenmayer

#10. When nature called, the men would relieve themselves in a pot at the sideboard without interrupting their conversation, an English custom instituted not so much for convenience as to preempt any excuse for the weak of stomach or head to sneak out before the drinking was finished.

Nina Burleigh

#11. Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

Gary Zukav

#12. The task of a leader is to simplify. You should be able to explain where you need to go in two minutes.

Jeroen Van Der Veer

#13. I may have got (Paul) Waner out, but I never fooled him.

Burleigh Grimes

#14. Why is it there are so many nice guys interested in baseball? Not me, I was a real bastard when I played.

Burleigh Grimes

#15. There are places where it is easy to see, places of illumination, where one moves into illumined states of attention.

Frederick Lenz

#16. Having been born in 1939 and come to consciousness during World War II, I knew that established orders could vanish overnight. Change could also be as fast as lightning. It can't happen here could not be depended on: anything could happen anywhere, given the circumstances. By

Margaret Atwood

#17. Personally, I like to imagine the Godhead dancing it a rhythm of its own, something even grander than a waltz, touching, tasting, smelling, seeing, and hearing, creating wonder after wonder, and when it's finished, looking upon the handiwork and saying, This is great!

Lisa Samson

#18. I drew my gaze up from his throbbing erection and he grinned and winked at me like the cocky son of a bitch he was.

Samantha Young

#19. The Earth is your Mother and Grandmother. When you walk on the Earth, you are making a prayer to her.

Burleigh Muten

#20. I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Lady Gaga

#21. I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

Burleigh Grimes

#22. The oldest pitcher acquires confidence in his ballclub - he doesn't try to do it all himself.

Burleigh Grimes

#23. But maybe you shouldn't wonder so much about his secret, he says. What's really important is finding your secret - something that becomes like a seed inside you - that will grow as you grow up.

Robert Burleigh