Top 100 Burton Quotes
#1. There are horizons through the brickwork, you wait and see.
Jessie Burton
#3. A McQueen woman always has to feel powerful.
She's never a girly girl, she's always a woman.
Sarah Burton
#4. I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
Gale Gordon
#5. 'One Tree Hill' was my very first television audition; it was a fairytale. I feel really lucky to have that level of success right out of the gate.
Hilarie Burton
#6. Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Sometimes it is hard to make this understood.
Burton Richter
#7. There are essentially three types of people: those who love life more than they fear it, those who fear life more than they love it, and those who have no clue what I'm talking about.
Neel Burton
#8. I love you. I hope you can get used to me saying that. A lot.
Jaci Burton
#9. I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow.
Hilarie Burton
#10. The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see.
Tim Burton
#12. There would be no Star Trek unless there were transporter malfunctions.
LeVar Burton
#13. the English explorer Richard Burton told the story of an Englishman finding his new wife unconscious on the marital bed, having chloroformed herself. She had pinned a note to her nightdress which read: 'Mama says you're to do what you like.
Sam Miller
#15. Neighbours watching neighbours, twisting ropes to bind us all.
Jessie Burton
#16. I think of Ray Harryhausen's work - I knew his name before I knew any actor or director's names. His films had an impact on me very early on, probably even more than Disney. I think that's what made me interested in animation: His work.
Tim Burton
#18. While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community.
Burton Richter
#19. I do not believe that the way paint is applied should be more important than what is portrayed.
Burton Silverman
#20. I'm gonna go live in a cave, just completely live in my interior world.
Tim Burton
#21. I think some people think that being on television makes you a sitting duck, but you have the right to remain private.
Amanda Burton
#23. No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
Robert Burton
#24. The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.
Neel Burton
#25. Do you have a body if there is no one there to touch it? I suppose you do, but sometimes it felt like I didn't. I was just a mind floating around the rooms.
Jessie Burton
#26. When I was a kid I always wanted to be a mad scientist. I don't know ... a regular scientist just was no un.
Tim Burton
#27. One person's crazyness is another person's reality.
Tim Burton
#28. Tyler said she was good, but she was having sex with him, so his vote didn't count
Jaci Burton
#29. I'd prefer to rise in love , she thinks - lifting up to the clouds , not plunging to the earth. She pictures herself , weightless and adored , delirious in ecstasy.
Jessie Burton
#30. In suffering do we find our truest selves," she says.
Jessie Burton
#31. A piece of art only succeeds when it's creator...possesses the belief that brings it into being
Jessie Burton
#32. He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila's car passing by, he couldn't decide if it was a memory or a dream.
Christian F. Burton
#33. Sometimes we're going to fight, but we're never going to give up on each other.
Jaci Burton
#34. I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve dragging up a lot emotions - you can end up being deeply immersed in gloom.
Amanda Burton
#35. Little islands are all large prisons; one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.
Richard Francis Burton
#36. Confidence is a pencil best sharpened with paper.
Kale Burton
#37. If you like not my writing, go read something else.
Robert Burton
#38. Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.
Helena Bonham Carter
#39. One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!
Lance Burton
#40. Richard Burton was Welsh; Tom Jones is Welsh, and we Welshmen like to think of ourselves as heroes - on screen and off!
Timothy Dalton
#41. I have always been a fan of 'Star Trek.' I love Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future.
LeVar Burton
#42. If we are going to list guitar influences, the biggest one by far is Wes Montgomery. Also, Gary Burton was obviously huge for me in a number of ways. But beyond that, Clifford Brown, Miles Davis and Freddie Hubbard.
Pat Metheny
#43. There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.
Scott Stossel
#44. When we understand that He is Lord of our time, we realize that interruptions are of His planning. They become opportunities to serve rather than plagues to keep us from functioning.
Karen Burton Mains
#45. We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
LeVar Burton
#46. Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.
Ann Burton
#48. All faith is false, all faith is true. Truth is the shattered mirror strown in myriad bits, while each believes his little bit the whole to own.
Richard Francis Burton
#49. God made no mistakes when He created you. You were uniquely designed for success in your purpose.
Valorie Burton
#50. I always wonder why some people see things as weird and some people don't.
Tim Burton
#51. She has always thought that kindness was an active thing. But the not doing of something, an act of restraint -- could that be kindness too?
Jessie Burton
#52. When you're younger, it's hard because you're finding your identity, and then for 12 hours out of the day, you have to be a different person. So that's a tricky phase - as far as figuring who you are out and then figuring out the people that you're working with.
Hilarie Burton
#53. You put your life on hold for me. And really, I get that. I appreciate that. But I'm not a baby anymore. Let go, Mom.
Jaci Burton
#54. Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.
Robert Burton
#55. She had never had a friend like this, in her private room, combing her hair, listening to her, talking about silly nonsense and the uselessness of one's parents; how the future was perfect, because they hadn't lived it yet.
Jessie Burton
#56. I always enjoyed the meticulous planning of every kill and of course the large payday that follow. It all became an exuberant game, and I couldn't stop...
Mary Burton King
#57. Man is mostly a collection of emotions, most of which he would do better not to be feeling.
Neel Burton
#58. Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
Tim Burton
#59. Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.
Burton Richter
#60. It is no coincidence that, on all four sides, in all four corners, the borders of the Roman Empire stopped where wine could no longer be made.
Neel Burton
#61. Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!
Hilarie Burton
#62. Yeah. Rough game, though. You get banged up?
Jaci Burton
#63. I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
Burton Rascoe
#64. People say I am stuck in childhood, but it's not that. I remember seeing a Matisse retrospective, and you could see he started out one way, and then he tried something different, and then he seemed to spend his whole life trying to get back to the first thing.
Tim Burton
#65. Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.
Tim Burton
#66. If he licked her there, she'd rob a bank for him.
When she felt his tongue glide across her throat, she quivered all over. Mick tightensed his hold on her, and the bastard did it again.
Jaci Burton
#67. We have learned that a majority of parents whose children have late-onset or acquired autism believe it is vaccine-related. They deserve answers. We have also learned that the parents have been our best investigators in looking for both causes of autism and for treatments.
Dan Burton
#68. What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
Burton Rascoe
#69. Add now you're mine. Do you understand that? You don't give this pussy to anyone else while we're playing. You're mine.
Jaci Burton
#71. I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people.
Amanda Burton
#72. Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate ... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.
Cliff Burton
#73. Every day, I love what I do and I think it's a gift and privilege to love your job.
Sarah Burton
#74. I was content before you came into it and I'll be content after you're gone.
Jaci Burton
#75. I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
Gary Burton
#76. I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.
Tim Burton
#78. Are you holding on to me because you think I'm going to disappear?
Jaci Burton
#79. I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
Kate Burton
#80. Most people say about graveyards: "Oh, it's just a bunch of dead people. It's creepy." But for me, there's an energy to it that it not creepy, or dark. It has a positive sense to it.
Tim Burton
#81. I was on Days Of Our Lives for about three months.
Steve Burton
#82. For some of us, Halloween is everyday.
Tim Burton
#83. I am stuck with my passion for the objective world, for the constantly shifting shades of meaning to the events of my life, to the states of being of the people I paint, and to the persistent need to get it right.
Burton Silverman
#84. Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton.
Karen Abbott
#85. Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make up a personality.
Burton Silverman
#87. I actually did do a musical many years ago with John Waters called Cry-Baby, but technically it was only half me - it wasn't me singing. Tim's [ Burton] the only person brave enough to actually let me try to sing.
Johnny Depp
#88. You made me face something I should have faced a long time ago. I'm grateful. And I should have never asked you to leave. You don't ask someone you to love to walk out of your life
Jaci Burton
#89. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.
Neel Burton
#90. It must first be reiterated that with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat
Jeffrey Burton Russell
#91. I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
Lance Burton
#93. Hard grind got us the glory, the saying goes-- but sloth will slide us back into the sea.
Jessie Burton
#94. The problem with studying is that it gets in the way of education.
Neel Burton
#95. Take care, take care. This city thrives! It's money gives you wings to soar. But it is a yoke on your shoulders and you would do well to take note of the bruise around your neck.
Jessie Burton
#96. Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
Alan Dean Foster
#97. And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said I think I need a hair.
Tim Burton
#98. Depression is our way of telling ourselves that something is seriously wrong and needs working through and changing.
Neel Burton
#99. Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.
Sarah Burton
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