Top 100 Burnett Quotes
#1. In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.
Mark Burnett
#2. There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#3. Perhaps when her eyes closed the sultriness of the night had changed to the momentary freshness of the turning dawn,
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#4. David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology.
Terry Southern
#5. I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.
T Bone Burnett
#6. The fact was, however, that she was always dreaming and thinking odd things and could not herself remember any time when she had not been thinking things about grown up people and the world they belonged to. She felt as if she had lived a long, long time.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#7. As regards plot I find real life no help at all. Real life seems to have no plots. And as I think a plot desirable and almost necessary, I have this extra grudge against life.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#9. It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death.
Hallie Burnett
#11. Nothing which did not understand the wonderfulness of what was happening to them
the immense, tender, terrible, heart-breaking beauty and solemnity of Eggs ... if an Egg were to be taken away or hurt the whole world would whirl round and crash through space and come to an end ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#12. Aching all over, we reached level ground again, and Mr. Christy withdrew his claims, and agreed that no road anywhere else could possibly be so bad as a Mexican road; a decision which later experiences only served to confirm.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#13. When I am telling it, it doesn't seem as if it was only made up. It seems more real than you are
more real than the schoolroom. I feel as if I were all the people in the story
one after the other. It is queer.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#14. Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#15. You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.
Mark Burnett
#16. Living coherently doesn't mean everything is in perfect order all the time. It means you are living in alignment with your values and have not sacrificed your integrity along the way.
Bill Burnett
#17. We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#18. Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
T Bone Burnett
#20. People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton
A. J. Burnett
#21. I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.
T Bone Burnett
#22. Often thought that you had just the kind of commonplace gifts that a host of commonplace people want to find at their service. An old servant of mine who lives in Mortimer Street
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#23. We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#30. I very much enjoyed doing 'Law & Order,' playing a killer - that was fun, and they had a family feel around the set, so it was a happy show to do even though the subject matter was quite the opposite.
Carol Burnett
#31. Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.
Leo Burnett
#32. I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.
Carol Burnett
#34. The paths and down the avenue, she was stirring her slow blood and making herself stronger
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#35. I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.
Mark Burnett
#36. The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
David Burnett
#37. Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to have it. She doesn't know which is th' worst.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#39. She knew now why she had come up here. It was so that she might feel like this - as if she was upheld far away from things - as if she had left everything behind - almost as if she had fallen awake again. There was no perfume in the air, but all was still and sweet and clear.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#41. People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#42. My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo.
Mark Burnett
#43. I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.
T Bone Burnett
#45. Because nobody goes though life without a scar.
Carol Burnett
#46. Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!
Carol Burnett
#47. DAVID SHIELDS: Salinger told Whit Burnett... that on D-Day he was carrying six chapters of 'The Catcher in the Rye', that he needed those pages with him not only as an amulet to help him survive but as a reason to survive.
Shane Salerno
#48. Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling ...
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#49. If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
T Bone Burnett
#51. I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.
Carol Burnett
#52. Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
Leo Burnett
#53. Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#54. I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
Mark Burnett
#56. Music, for centuries and centuries, was used to teach everything. It was used to teach language, mathematics, history. The news was music. Everything traveled by song. It was used to teach ethics. It was used to create conscience, probably more than anything.
T Bone Burnett
#57. Two lads an' a little lass just lookin' on at th' springtime. I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#58. I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency
Leo Burnett
#59. You'd better be careful, they are going to revoke your vampire license if you get any more romantic and mushy."
"Don't worry," Burnett said, his eyes pinched as if serious. "I can still be a jackass, and kick ass, when it's called for.
C.C. Hunter
#60. Perhaps you can feel if you can't hear," was her fancy. "Perhaps kind thoughts reach people somehow, even through windows and doors and walls. Perhaps you feel a little warm and comforted, and don't know why, when I am standing here in the cold and hoping you will get well and happy again.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#61. I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.
Edward Burnett Tylor
#63. There were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
Carol Burnett
#64. If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.
Carol Burnett
#66. My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.
T Bone Burnett
#67. As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.
Carol Burnett
#68. Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.
Leo Burnett
#69. In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
Ed O'Neill
#70. You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#71. I'm definitely not a follower. This is our job. This is what we do. If you're not having fun here, you shouldn't be here.
A. J. Burnett
#72. I loved the late Gilda Radner. I love Carol Burnett and Lily Tomlin.
Tracey Ullman
#73. Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am living in a fairy story. I feel as if I might be a fairy myself, and able to turn things into anything else.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#75. The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.
Leo Burnett
#77. When someone who is known for being comedic does something straight, it's always "a big breakthrough" or a "radical departure." Why is is no one ever says that if a straight actor does comedy? Are they presuming comedy is easier?
Carol Burnett
#79. I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.
Lennon Parham
#80. People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#83. In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
Mark Burnett
#84. You can't just decide to take the subject matter of The Bible and figure out you can just change what you want. I mean, the audience knows, and if you give them a Biblical story, you better get it right.
Mark Burnett
#85. You are nothing but a doll. Nothing but a doll
doll
doll! You care for nothing. You are stuffed with sawdust. You never had a heart. Nothing could ever make you feel. You are a doll!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#86. So many people: Lucille Ball is the earliest incarnation of a woman I thought was funny, Joan Rivers, Roseanne, Carol Burnett, Gilda Radnor, down to current times, where you have Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, and Kristen Wiig.
Chelsea Peretti
#88. The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.
David Burnett
#92. As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.
Caroline Rhea
#93. Advertising says to people, 'Here's what we've got. Here's what it will do for you. Here's how to get it.'
Leo Burnett
#94. A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#95. Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.
T Bone Burnett
#96. [On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#97. Why don't you tell people what happened last night"
"You slept on the sofa!"
"And why is that?"
"Because you're ... incompetent
R.S. Burnett
#98. Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#99. Fun without sell gets nowhere but sell without fun tends to become obnoxious.
Leo Burnett
#100. I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself ... In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.
Charles Burnett
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