Frances Burney Quotes

#1. Peace to the spirits of my honored parents, respected be their remains, and immortalized their virtues! may time, while it moulders their frail relicks to dust, commit to tradition the record of their goodness...

Frances Burney

#2. Collectively, these findings tell us it's conceivable that life began on Mars and later seeded life on Earth, a process known as panspermia.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#3. It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

Scott Weiland

#4. What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it?

Karan Mahajan

#5. Everybody likes pizza! It's a quick and easy clean-up meal.

Buddy Valastro

#6. Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.

Frances Burney

#7. I like the writing life, but it's not something that always makes enough money.

Tom Drury

#8. A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

Frances Burney

#9. When you're dressed up as David Bowie, with your eyebrows completely bleached, and you're doing this kind of strange dance with Paul McCartney while singing "Rebel Rebel" in the middle of the Met ball, and Madonna's looking at you ... I was just thinking, It's become a bit weird.

Florence Welch

#10. Human progress is achieved by taking exact measurements.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#11. People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance.

Frances Burney

#12. It's not going to be easy, but it's kind of like ripping off a band-aid. Painful for a minute, but it has to be done.

Kenneth Eade

#13. I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

Clare Balding

#14. Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don't think that's by accident.

Phil LaMarr

#15. Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

Seneca The Elder

#16. We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

Frances Burney

#17. Famous designers think nothing of putting their names on your clothing, but would have the servants set the dogs on you if you ever tried to put your name on their clothing.

Dave Barry

#18. The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

Frances Burney

#19. To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

Frances Burney

#20. Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.

Paul Taylor

#21. There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.

Frances Burney

#22. Our reality is colored by our vibration and belief systems. In other words, the experiences we have in the world with other people are dictated by the energy we bring with us wherever we go.

Alaric Hutchinson

#23. I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

Frances Burney