Frances Hodgson Burnett Interesting Quotes

#1. Her behaviors turn her psychic pain, which she fears is not legitimate, into physical pain, which is indisputably real.

Sheila M. Reindl

#2. Dogs should be called by names which are not very long, so that each may obey more quickly when he is called, but they should not have shorter names than those which are pronounced in two syllables ...

Columella

#3. I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. 'See how richly they are clad,' he said. 'Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#4. People are incredible creatures of habit.

Sam Altman

#5. Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.

Doug Larson

#6. Thank you," I whisper. Words I never thought I would say to her. They unsettle us both."
"You want to thank me, Barrow?" she mutters, kicking away the last of my bindings. "Then keep your word. And let this fucking place burn." (300)

Victoria Aveyard

#7. The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.

George R R Martin

#8. Claire was going to hate me. Our son was sucked into the pits of hell while I was watching General Hospital. God damn you Brenda and Sonny for making me lose focus.

Tara Sivec

#9. As a filmmaker, I always try not to concern myself with the outcome of things. I make the movie, and I do that as honestly and good as I can. I don't want to pollute my thoughts with what is going to happen with it afterwards, because I have to work inside-out.

Susanne Bier

#10. I think you've all heard my story about my daughter and how we felt Children's Hospital saved her life when she was less than a year old. I won't go through all of the details of that.

Jack Nicklaus

#11. Nothing is more interesting than repressed emotion. The appearance of sardonic coldness and stoicism which has deceived you is but a hollow mockery; beneath it I secrete a maelstrom of impassioned feeling and a mausoleum of blighted hopes.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#12. Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.

Lord Chesterfield

#13. I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies.

Tom Selleck

#14. And when there are enough outsiders together in one place, a mystic osmosis takes place and you're inside.

Stephen King

#15. Oji just happened to suggest he had one or two

Kazuo Ishiguro

#16. Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#17. The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

Helen Keller