Unburnished Quotes

#1. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#2. The Kindle itself is just the tip of the iceberg, and its true workings are invisible.

Jason Merkoski

#3. Every scene is a lesson. Every shot is a school. Let the learning continue.

Martin Scorsese

#4. The boy held her tighter, murmured soft words to lull her to sleep.
"It's only a nightmare," he whispered. "The dreams will stop."
He didn't understand. The dreams were the only place it was safe to use her power now, and she longed for them.

Leigh Bardugo

#5. Nothing brings you closer together than blind terror.

Colin Firth

#6. It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous.

Aristotle.

#7. Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.

George Carlin

#8. Closure, that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life, because there always seemed to be a little aperture, a slit of light.

Meg Wolitzer

#9. A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.

Tony Campolo

#10. I think people should be brave and take a chance and do what excites them.

Jean Berko Gleason

#11. He lives alone and makes his bed? Who does that?

Rachel Caine

#12. A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.

Eric Maskin

#13. There would not be any profits but for the eagerness of the public to acquire the merchandise offered for sale by the successful entrepreneur. But the same people who scramble for these articles vilify the businessman and call his profit ill-got.

Ludwig Von Mises

#14. That imminence of a revelation that is not yet produced, is perhaps the aesthetic reality.

Jorge Luis Borges