Doing It Melvin Burgess Quotes

#1. The only thing that isn't free is you. You do as you're told. You sit in your seat until they say 'Stand'. You stay put til they say 'Go'. Maybe that's the way you like it. It's easy. It's all there. You don't have to think about. You don't even have to feel it.

Melvin Burgess

#2. Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that's the reason we're so hard on them.

Melvin Burgess

#3. I hate the very noise of troublous man
Who did and does me all the harm he can.
Free from the world I would a prisoner be
And my own shadow all my company.

John Clare

#4. He'd come back, all open and helpless, and I suppose that's what won her around in the end. But it was so sad, because it was being himself that he found so difficult to cope with.

Melvin Burgess

#5. It wasn't a love story." -Tar's dad
It was a love story. Me, Gemma, and junk." -Tar

Melvin Burgess

#6. It's impossible to satisfy everyone, and I suggest we all stop trying.

Jennifer Aniston

#7. People are always talking about love like it's something everyday. People say they love their parents, but what does that mean?

Melvin Burgess

#8. When you are positive; mind thinks, when you are negative; mind thinks,
For mind can never be in balance.
It is the Self, witnessing in awareness, Centered, which observes these two.

Gian Kumar

#9. My sister called her pillow a pilgo. My brother called his pacifier his nimma. But I don't think I was much of a word generator myself.

Andrew Clements

#10. If it's a choice between being shat on and pissed on and used and being a bastard, I'll choose being a bastard any time.

Melvin Burgess

#11. I got to a point where kind of a oneness with everything and a great compassion. It teaches you compassion. It was a great, enlightening experience, a spiritual experience. Not particularly religious, but spiritual. It was great. I can still go there.

Larry Hagman

#12. And then I noticed the dandelions.

Melvin Burgess

#13. I will not betray my country.

Mohammed Morsi

#14. And a summit and flower there is the feeling they have for each other,
And they are to branch boundlessly out of that lesson until it becomes omnific,
And until one and all shall delight us, and we them.

Walt Whitman

#15. Try it. You don't have to do it ever again if you don't want to. But try it once. Try everything once.

Melvin Burgess

#16. Love is a secret society, a community for two.

Melvin Burgess

#17. Politicians ... turn patriotism into shopkeeping and their own interest - men who care far more for who governs us than for how we are governed.. And what will be the end of such ways? I will tell you. We shall have a Democracy that will be the reign of those who know the least and talk the loudest.

Amelia Barr

#18. Tell me something about yourself no one else knows, something I can keep for myself.

Colleen Hoover

#19. The pen has shaken nations.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#20. I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

Melvin Burgess

#21. Tar had a reason, plenty of reasons. The latest were painted on his face, too.

Melvin Burgess

#22. That's her secret, I suppose. Everything that happens to her she's proud of. She makes it special by it happening to her.

Melvin Burgess

#23. She didn't have to be offered anything; it was already hers. She was more herself than anyone else ever was and as soon as I clapped eyes on her I knew I wanted to be myself just as much as she was herself.

Melvin Burgess

#24. Good ideas are the backbone of good government.

Brian Schweitzer

#25. For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Christopher Ricks

#26. The magic girl licked the wet off her arms and looked over to me as if to say, See? You don't have to behave like them, you don't have to behave like anyone.

Melvin Burgess

#27. Johnny, yawning still, burst into noisy tears and was slapped by Bill till he choked on them.

William Golding

#28. She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are

Melvin Burgess

#29. I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.

Melvin Burgess