Stephen Burrows Quotes

#1. I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

Tariq Ali

#2. I feel high on the knowledge that I can talk as much as I want to, as quickly as I want to, in any direction that I want to, without anyone overtly rolling her eyes at me or suggesting I go to speech therapy. I'm not saying this is good pedagogy. I am saying that its pleasures are deep.

Maggie Nelson

#3. We've been rehearsing a classic from antiquity, Green Eggs and Hamlet, the story of a young prince of Denmark who goes mad, drowns his girlfriend, and in his remorse, forces spoiled breakfast on all whom he meets.

Christopher Moore

#4. You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Henry David Thoreau

#5. In the face of madness, rationality was powerless.

Liu Cixin

#6. [Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.

Stephen King

#7. Basically, I didn't know anything about fashion. I was very nerdy; I went to Bryn Mawr and never even noticed models when I was 21.

Fatima Siad

#8. In America it's good to show people you are fine, you're healthy, you're sporty, you're happy to do things, to live. And in France it's more like you don't have to show you have success.

Lea Seydoux

#9. I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Remarkable work is always not on the list, because if it was, it would be commonplace, not remarkable.

Seth Godin

#11. Because before you acquired language, you didn't exist.

Marcel Theroux

#12. He was a sad poison nice guy more poison than nice.

William S. Burroughs

#13. A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

William James

#14. In an economy of grace, there is enough to go around. The Father's love and generosity are not scarce. His table is brimming with luxurious fare. That is why we invite those who cannot repay us. After all, it is not our table, but his.

Michael S. Horton

#15. Machismo makes no provision for preparing lunch, doing the laundry, or minding the baby.

Mason Cooley