Mariellen Burns Quotes

#1. Thine image and--a name--a name!
Two separate--yet most intimate things.

Edgar Allan Poe

#2. Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.

Bob Barker

#3. Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

Abdolkarim Soroush

#4. Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

Thomas Szasz

#5. Why not seize the pleasure at once?
How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Jane Austen

#6. Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

Stephen King

#7. Glory comes too late when we are nought but ashes.

Martial

#8. We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.

Richard Powers

#9. A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.

E.W. Howe

#10. Roasted sweet potatoes are like illicit sex in the old Chinese saying, "Having it isn't as good as not having it." The smell is better than the taste. When you smell it, you feel you must have one, but once you actually sink your teeth into it, you find it's not really anything special.

Qian Zhongshu

#11. There is a point in every young person's life when you realize that the youth that you've progressed through and graduate to some sort of adulthood is equally as messed up as where you're going.

Jena Malone

#12. When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.

Ryan Adams

#13. Friendship is the union of spirits ...

William Penn

#14. A sudden and unforseen swinging of his head alarmed all present. He seemed to be trying to scare off a flock of vampires biting into his brain.

Juan Filloy

#15. There was never a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

Edgar Dale