Charles Burney Quotes

#1. I like doing sequels. Basically, I think it's a fun thing to follow characters in time. In real time.

Julie Delpy

#2. All biologic phenomena act to adjust: there are no biologic actions other than adjustments. Adjustment is another name for Equilibrium. Equilibrium is the Universal, or that which has nothing external to derange it.

Charles Fort

#3. If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Alfred P. Sloan

#4. Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter.

Mary Roach

#5. I do care about not 99 percent or 95 percent. I care about the very rich and the very poor. I care about 100 percent of America.

Rick Santorum

#6. His hands slid around my head, pulling me back to his mouth. There was a cracking sound in the house. A fissure of electricity shot through the room. Something smoked. I didn't care.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

Carl Spitteler

#8. I snapped my lips shut againt the yes that was about to come out. Could I hit Reth? Could I please, please just ht him?

Kiersten White

#9. The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

Max Eastman

#10. Something that simply mystifies me.

Cole Porter

#11. The fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

Adolf Hitler

#12. I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd.

Janine Turner

#13. I agree she could finance us, but the only thing I have left is my pride, and I'll eat shit before anyone rips that from me.

Katie McGarry

#14. With respect to excellence of style and composition, it may perhaps be said that to practised ears the most pleasing music is such as has the merit of novelty, added to refinement, and ingenious contrivance; and to the ignorant, such as is most familiar and common.

Charles Burney

#15. When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

William Hazlitt