John Burningham Quotes

#1. What if there is this time bomb to love. What if it's like you fall in love with so many people who just aren't for you, and with each one, your heart toughens up, and you have to find the one who is right for you before your heart is completely calcified in your chest.

Gregory Sherl

#2. The physics of undergraduate text-books is 90% true; the contents of the primary research journals of physics is 90% false.

John Ziman

#3. When will the arbitrary be granted the place it deserves in the formation of works and ideas?

Andre Breton

#4. The greatest weapon you have, and the one that will see you through anything, is a settled determination that you will achieve your dream.

John Patrick Hickey

#5. What is there to imagine with a gun?" asked Papa . . . .
"Something dead," Papa said more quietly. "That's what there is to imagine with a gun.

Paula Fox

#6. There are lots of animals in the house.
There's an elephant in the hall,
a seal in the bathtub,
a crane in the laundry,
a tiger on the stairs,
and a polar bear by the fridge.
Does this have anything to do with you?

John Burningham

#7. There is no one alive who has not wanted to go back to sleep.

Elizabeth Lesser

#8. There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

John Keats