Top 100 Burt's Quotes
#1. had reached a new level, and anger and suspicion were my first reactions to the world around me. Burt's
Daniel Keyes
#2. especially given to dirtying the butter (a thing quite superfluous, according to Captain Burt's description of Highland butter).
Andrew Lang
#3. I carry about eight lip balms: Burt's Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.
Lena Headey
#4. To a certain extent, Ruef's and Burt's research is a validation of the celebrated "strength of weak ties" argument first proposed by Mark Granovetter,
Steven Johnson
#5. Live until you die." spoken by Nana Antonia in Steve Burt's story "Nana Antonia's Christmas Wish" in Family Circle Magazine. The story is also found as "Christmas Eve 12 Plus 97" in Steve' book, A Christmas Dozen.
Steve Burt
#6. My hair does get really frizzy, so I use a de-frizzing serum from Bumble and Bumble, and also Moroccan Oil is some really good stuff. Plus, I can't live without my Burt's Bees lip balm!
Chloe Bridges
#7. I like Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm because I don't need a mirror to reapply. But I definitely treat myself with face lotion - I use La Mer.
Alison Sweeney
#8. Uncle Burt's round face, mixing bowl bangs of greying blond locks and toothless smile made him look more like an emoticon than a judge.
Kenneth Eade
#9. What befalls me couldn't have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me.
Alexandra Burt
#10. Since Yuri Gagarin and Al Shepard's epoch flights in 1961, all space missions have been flown only under large, expensive government efforts. By contrast, our program involves a few, dedicated individuals who are focused entirely on making spaceflight affordable.
Burt Rutan
#11. The audience will always forgive you for being wrong and exciting, but never for being right and dull.
Burt Reynolds
#12. If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity.
Burt Bacharach
#13. Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.
Burt Bacharach
#14. I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called Seesaw. I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first ac.
Giancarlo Esposito
#15. Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.
Burt Lancaster
#16. There is a rampant tendency in any industry where someone is trying to sell something with a bunch of data, where they cherry pick a little bit ... bias a little bit. This becomes quite easy when there is an enormous amount of data to cherry pick from.
Burt Rutan
#17. Science is not about consensus, and consensus is not science.
Burt Rutan
#18. Even in Los Angeles, where we lived, when we would date somebody or go out with them, if we went out with somebody else the next night, we often found that women were banging on our windows while we were bedded down with other women!
Burt Ward
#19. NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.
Burt Rutan
#20. If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody tells me I can't do it. If I want to go skinny dipping and wash my body, I can take my clothes off.
Burt Shavitz
#21. There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.
Burt Rutan
#22. ...No, the gentle will not have to kill the table-pounders, thus stultifying their own instincts, for the noisy, being bullies, will melt away at the first sight of the army of the soft-spoken.
Maxwell Struthers Burt
#23. With a name like that, he must be Catholic, right?
Burt Hochberg
#26. In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
Burt Rutan
#27. Our goal is to show that you can develop a robust, safe manned space program and do it at an extremely low cost.
Burt Rutan
#28. I enjoyed playing around with that guy, and it was a pleasure every three, four years, coming back seeing how the wardrobe is. Is he heavy? Is he thin? I had fun.
Burt Young
#29. The moment you grab someone by the lapels, you're lost.
Burt Reynolds
#30. If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
Burt Prelutsky
#31. The greatest help oft comes in harm's disguise, to those with trusting hearts and open eyes.
William D. Burt
#32. My head's swimming. Sorry, sis. I'm a useless brother. You're best off shot of me. - Burt
Jamie Scallion
#33. Music breeds its own inspiration. You can only do it by doing it. You may not feel like it, but you push yourself. It's a work process. Or just improvise. Something will come.
Burt Bacharach
#34. I never liked hearing anyone say I was the new George Gershwin, because I knew I could have never even carried that man's music case. If George Gershwin hadn't died when he was thirty-nine years old, there is no knowing how much more great music he would have written.
Burt Bacharach
#35. The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's important.
Burt Bacharach
#36. I'm curious about why there's so much honor given to death, when there is no honor in losing someone you love.
Mackie Burt
#37. You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.
Burt Ward
#38. When there's ever a breakthrough, a true breakthrough, you can go back and find a time period when the consensus was 'well, that's nonsense!' so what that means is that a true creative researcher has to have confidence in nonsense.
Burt Rutan
#39. It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'
Charles Nelson Reilly
#40. He's going to kill me. They'll find me lying on the floor, my heart burt wide open, too full of him to stay in my chest.
Kristen Callihan
#41. But sometimes it's the smallest things that end up making the biggest difference." Indy reached out and clasped Peter's arm. "And you're not alone. No matter what happens, Peter, we so this together. And we do this for Story.
Marissa Burt
#42. And he has the teacher's fear of being surpassed by the student, the master's dread of having the disciple discredit his work. (Not that I am in any real sense Nemur's student or disciple as Burt is.) I guess Nemur's fear of being revealed as a man walking on stilts among giants is understandable.
Daniel Keyes
#43. My life is the land, the dogs, the car, the motorcycle, the pond, the canoe, going to pick up mail. It's just a rural retreat that I enjoy.
Burt Shavitz
#44. It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.
Burt Rutan
#45. It's not getting any better, is it? I don't want my 19-year-old boy going into the army. I love these little kids. They understand how passionate I am.
Burt Bacharach
#46. A NASA-funded study estimates that if the price of a ticket to space approached $100,000, close to a million people would buy one. That's a $100 billion industry. Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen gave me $20 million in startup funding to go after that market.
Burt Rutan
#47. Virgin Galactic, which will be operating SpaceShipTwo, will be only one of several spacelines. The competitors for Virgin include the Russians, Bezos's Blue Origin, and possibly Rocketplane Kistler. And likely a couple of others who are smart enough not to tell people what they are doing!
Burt Rutan
#48. But it's new, Millie. The other one is broken," Burt had said brightly. "This is horrible," she repeated, almost in tears now. "You can't just throw old friends away like they don't mean anything and then go and buy a new one..." She paused. "Even if they do look the same." As
Jamie Scallion
#49. I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.
Burt Reynolds
#50. I've always wanted to get an education, and tonight's as good a time as any.
Burt Lancaster
#51. With any luck, by the time NASA's space probe hits Pluto, you'll be booking a spaceflight with a privately run suborbital airline.
Burt Rutan
#52. If I took over the 'Glamour' offices for a day, I would put Joe Pesci on the cover. I would say 'We've got to change all these magazines a little bit. We have to bring out a different version of what is, like, cool. You know, what's winning. Joe Pesci, Burt Reynolds.'
Jake Johnson
#53. I did the whole rock and roll thing that's coming up. I think you're going to enjoy that! 'Burt Rocks', it's called. I like that he's a dreamer; I like how positive he is. There's a lot of things I think I can learn from Burt.
Garret Dillahunt
#54. In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.
Burt Rutan
#55. You can only hold your stomach in for so many years.
Burt Reynolds
#56. A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.
Burt Bacharach
#58. 'Evening Shade' was such an eye-opening experience. I was 19 when I went on that show. I had barely had an acting class. So as Burt Reynolds continued to bring me back for the next three years, I learned so much from him and all the other legends that were on the show.
David A.R. White
#59. Women are my drugs and alcohol. When I'm involved with one woman, I'm involved with one woman. Period. But between romances, I am carnivorous.
Burt Reynolds
#60. I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.
Burt Lancaster
#61. I make personal appearances around the country. I'm starting a book tour now, and I may be coming to Toronto with the Learning Annex, which I'm doing all through the United States, so that may come up just before Christmas.
Burt Ward
#62. The others laughed and Burt said, All you need are girls who paddle like boys, and you're set!
Carolyn Keene
#63. There are three stages of an actor's career. Young, old, and "You look good".
Burt Reynolds
#64. People who escape familiar groups and make contact with unfamiliar ones becomes smarter and more creative. They have what Ronald Burt calls a "vision advantage." They are no longer captives of their cultures.
Grant McCracken
#65. True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.
Angela Burt-Murray
#66. The only actor who I think probably might have possibly taken a swing at me if he could have would be Burt Reynolds. He used to call Roger and me the Bruise Brothers, out of Chicago.
Gene Siskel
#67. Having done 300 television shows and almost 60 movies, I'm tired of having guys who are younger than some sandwiches I've had, telling me to turn left at the couch. There's no appreciation of actors and no sense of history.
Burt Reynolds
#68. Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything.
Burt Reynolds
#69. We're all forgotten sooner or later. But not films. That's all the memorial we should need or hope for,
Burt Lancaster
#70. I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster
#71. For the industry we're starting now, for suborbital flight, there is no destination, so the spacecraft you go up in has to be large and spacious. That's why SpaceShipTwo is much bigger than SpaceShipOne: It needs to be because you want those six people to be floating around and enjoying themselves.
Burt Rutan
#72. The magic of living life for me is, and always has been, the magic of living on the land, not in the magic of money.
Burt Shavitz
#73. In football you can make it if you've got the 'I'm-going-to-get-up-off-the-ground-and-kick-your-ass' attitude.
Burt Reynolds
#74. I was blown away by the standing ovation. I've had tributes before, sure, but I don't retain that feeling, and I wasn't prepared for it on Tuesday. But maybe you shouldn't retain these things or you'd be on a permanent high.
Burt Bacharach
#75. Iconic artists are never straight ahead. Michael Jackson loved Elvis and Burt Bacharach, and uniquely blended both of them into what he did.
Pharrell Williams
#76. If I want to be up for an Academy Award, I'm either going to have to play a tour de force of some kind or have a tracheotomy just before the nominations.
Burt Reynolds
#77. I mean when you come into the set at 7:30 in the morning and you come out of make-up and the first thing you know, the ladies start coming into our dressing rooms at 7:45.
Burt Ward
#78. There were such sounds as are not heard in daylight - moon sounds and cloud sounds and sounds of dark wind; branches talked and other small voices answered in anxious undertones.
Katharine Newlin Burt
#79. Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom."
~ "The Hole
Guy Burt
#80. Fetch me the money box and some punkwood, will you, my boy? Gannon asked him, licking the honey from his plate. (I fear table manners in the cabin-indeed, all manners-had suffered since Gannon and his son had been left to themselves.)
William D. Burt
#81. On our show, I must tell you, it was ... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?
Burt Ward
#82. Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.
Maxwell Struthers Burt
#83. Everything looks nonsensical before it works.
Burt Rutan
#85. I will not give up. I must not fail."
Burt, Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#86. NASA is doing nothing but development. They're not doing research in manned spaceflight at all and I see no reason for them to do that because we already know that it will work and we already know exactly how it will work.
Burt Rutan
#87. You get to a certain age, where you know you can't go over the wall, but I'll never get to the age where I can't go through it.
Burt Reynolds
#88. The main problem with pacifism is that it doesn't work in all situations. The main problem with pacifists is that they're convinced it does.
Burt Prelutsky
#89. I've got a radio that occasionally I listen to. It's portable. It's got an antenna. I've put a piece of aluminum foil on it that gives me a little bit better reception. And a refrigerator.
Burt Shavitz
#90. I like to protect children. I mean, there's nothing wrong with having adult programming for mature adults that can selectively decide what they want to watch and what they don't want to watch.
Burt Ward
#91. Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.
Burt Rutan
#92. Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.
Burt Ward
#93. I think that what you've got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.
Burt Glinn
#94. She told me I couldn't just put on a leather jacket and think I was rock'n'roll, I had to live it."
Burt about Bex, Book 1 "Making it
Jamie Scallion
#95. Goldie [Hawn] is one of the sharpest ladies I've ever worked with. She doesn't miss a thing. She's my greatest audience. She laughs at all my stories and in the right places, too.
Burt Reynolds
#96. I spent about seven years during the Vietnam War flight-testing airplanes for the Air Force. And then I went in and I had a lot of fun building airplanes that people could build in their garages. And some 3,000 of those are flying. Of course, one of them is around-the-world Voyager.
Burt Rutan
#97. I was in Florida with Burt Stern, the photographer who shot Marilyn Monroe on the beach with a sweater, and we smoked a joint. The bathing suit kept coming off in the water, and I just ripped it off. I was very comfortable being naked.
Rosanna Arquette
#98. I had a brother six years older than me, so I wasn't just listening to teenybopper stuff. My brother had the cooler music, but my parents had the Burt Bacharach, Tom Jones, the Association, the Fifth Dimension; these groups were un-cool, but I secretly loved them.
Jill Sobule
#99. One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.
Stephen Burt
#100. When sober, which he hadn't been for well over a week, Burt thought about Double B, and what it might be like to be a real father, to wake up with him in the morning, to watch him grow, to get to know the little soul."
Book 2 "Having it
Jamie Scallion
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