I call it mindless munching.


Susan Burke

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Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
ANTHONY DANIELS
I love Delta Burke!
BROOKE ELLIOTT
This is going to affect the whole town, West Burke as well as East Burke. I don't think people reali...
CATHI FEELEY
I think at this point, the only person that's truly going to be able to help Susan is Susan.
JUDY CORNETT
I know a lot of things about what people say about Judge Burke, and I know how he is. I get along wi...
JOHN BRYSON
She loves Susan Sarandon and I know my dad (would have loved) being married to Susan Sarandon, ... S...
CAMERON CROWE
Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way.
TRUMAN CAPOTE
(Davis) tried to overthrow a breaking ball (to Burke) and he hung it.
NED YOST
I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke.
ROBERT MAILLET
And like many wars it was built upon a mindless prejudice.
SAMANTHA YOUNG
I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.
HABEEB AKANDE
our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry
ALLEN GINSBERG
This is the first hurdle for Burke County Public Schools.
ANDY BRANDON
Is he like Burke, who winds into a subject like a serpent?
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
You want to make the most of those opportunities. I got a great pass and got Burke sliding.
PATRICE BERGERON
When I saw Burke come in, I definitely felt like things were (about) to turn around for me a little ...
EDDY CURRY
I listened to the veteran wrestlers that had tons of experience, like Leo Burke. I was never really ...
ROBERT MAILLET
The Susan Kennedy issue is over.
DUF SUNDHEIM
The program was chosen by Susan.
JOEL ROSENBERG
She was indomitable. [About Susan Sontag]
MICHAEL SILVERBLATT
It doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous...
STEVE KRUG
The requested sale of Aegis (Burke)-class destroyers becomes more likely.
DOUG BEREUTER
Susan and I have been relentlessly pursued by the Office of Independent Counsel,
JULIE MYERS
Susan says, don't get afraid, get angry.
TERRY PRATCHETT
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS
It's frustrating really. I mean, even Susan Wood resigned. That shows her own frustration.
BETTY DEFAZIO
I just don't like playing (Burke) back-to-back at this point in the season, so Johnny went in.
JOHN TORTORELLA
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
They call is adaptation, I call it learning. They call it circumstances, I call it practice.
TARUN UPADHYAYA
Don thanked God, me and his wife, Susan,
BRIAN CHAVEZ
That's Susan. She's always doing stuff like that.
KRISTA RAPPAHAHN
Not at Susan, but he smiled at me.
JOHN DONALDSON
I have compassion for Susan and I have to come from a caring place when I hear that.
DANIEL HOROWITZ
Yury, Jim, Susan, I know it's a tough day. I know it's hard to say good-bye.
FRANK CULBERTSON
I just spun around and threw it on net. [Gerry] Burke was screening. I figured if I got it up, it ha...
CHRIS BLIGHT
We obviously wanted to get in front of Burke because we know they can score. We were skating well an...
RICH FALASCA
SUSAN SLADDEN, WHO HELPED HARRY OUT OF HIS CUPBOARD
J.K. ROWLING
I am not leaving twitter. If the mindless few defeat the thoughtful majority we are all doomed.
GARY LINEKER
There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
CALVIN HARRIS
I'm proud to say that I was that guy playing the character of Dr. Burke on 'Grey's Anato...
ISAIAH WASHINGTON
That No. 15 (Burke) is as good of a running quarterback as we've ever seen.
JACK CRUMBLISS
I was very impressed by Mrs. Burke because it's not a flashy painting. It's a religious painting, an...
MIYEKO MURASE
While the dinosaurs were munching on leaves, these little guys were probably eating insects and thes...
JUDD CASE
My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks.
RON WHITE
In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good b...
TERRY PRATCHETT
If small things amuse small minds, then nothing amuses the Mindless. 
GECOGEE GERALD
In that instance I realized that I was going to live or die. It's kind of like your experience, Susa...
HELEN BOLLING
I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
HAMID KARZAI
There is a great deal of probable cause to believe Mr. Burke is a primary suspect.
LINDA BOWMAN
I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and a...
MORGAN BRITTANY
Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless con...
BILL GRIFFITH
Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. -Susan Sontag.
SUSAN SONTAG
Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book.
TERRY PRATCHETT
Some call it stalking.....I call it LOVE
IDK
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around ...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around ...
GARETH OWEN
I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE
You call it madness, but I call it love.
DON BYAS
I have a lovely light blue Kate Spade wallet. It has pockets for many credit cards, business cards, ...
AJA NAOMI KING
When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and...
CONSTANCE WU
We must move from mindless denigration to mindful integration if we want to move from war to peace.
DAVID FRISKO TEACHER
I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress.
JOHN TEMPLETON
They said 'Ms. Susan, we know you and you are Iraq's friend'.
SUSANNE OSTHOFF
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
, "THE CALL OF CTHULHU"
I never watch 'Sopranos' reruns back home. As far as I am concerned, the nuclear family is s...
GEORGE VECSEY
Computer games don't affect kids; I mean, if Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running ar...
MARCUS BIGSTROKE
Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me.
BECCA FITZPATRICK
I just threw it up. Call it luck. Call it skill. I have no idea.
LUKE WEAVER
In 1944 James Arthur and Minnie Susan were added to the Marx household.
HARPO MARX
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony.
JULIE HARRIS
Susan Polk defended herself against an attack by a rageful, brutal, aggressive man,
DANIEL HOROWITZ
Susan digs into how the gamblers were trying to get to the Reds.
GENE CARNEY
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and lis...
MARCUS BRIGSTOCKE
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and lis...
MARCUS BRIDGSTOCKE
W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so silly. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for ...
CHRISTINA RICCI
70 out of 100 people in the world cannot read... if you can read then you are the luckiest out of 2 ...
CALL BAIN
Movies are such an integral part of American culture. We're so spread out in this country, and m...
DAVID CALL
As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I di...
DAVID CALL
We have been able to show in a study that apes can draw conclusions from their physical environment.
JOSEP CALL
It is not a laboratory in the traditional sense. The animals can move around freely between outdoor,...
JOSEP CALL
Pay equality is not going to happen because we scream and yell about it, it's going to happen when w...
SUSAN SARANDON
I hope that they recognize that Susan was trying to defend herself. There was no malice in what was ...
HELEN BOLLING
Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless
STEVE ALLEN
Like other intellectuals, he welcomed the mindless drudgery as a refreshing change of pace.
PHILIP ZALESKI
IT helps to think of the whole development thing as a process; you go in looking like a girl, and yo...
PHILIP VAN MUNCHING
Edward: "Wait--you were trying to hit on me?"
Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The ...
JODI PICOULT
You call it nagging, I call it 'listen to what I said the first time!'
ANONYMOUS
I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence
MALCOLM X
What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering...
STEVE GOODIER
We don't really call it retirement. I call it out of work.
FREDDIE BELL
There is no individual on this Earth more determined than I am to end this country's wretched and mi...
CHANDRIKA KUMARATUNGA
I wouldn't call it religion. I call it a conscious contact with my Higher Power. I choose to call hi...
GLENN HUGHES
We are not wired to bury our children. It was rough. Dick and Susan always will have a hole in their...
DON OHLMEYER
I couldn't be Susan Sontag. I'm not very good with abstract thought. I always just take to t...
SALLY MANN
He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
JACK KEMP
With a bored pride; in their own hands a shallow mindless electronic device - it is without doubt - ...
KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN
A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.
TEJU COLE
Some people call it child labor. I call it... let's not get technical.
SARAH OCKLER
It's what I call the illusion of security, that's what I call it.
BILL BUTLER

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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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We still have nine games left, so this is just the beginning. We're still sitting in second place, s...
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The whole thing was beautiful to see, just perfect.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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The balance of power.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
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I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
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No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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Good order is the foundation of all great things.
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The key to why things change is the key to everything.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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Dignity belongs to the conquered.
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
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Custom reconciles us to everything.
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Chapter of accidents.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and...
EDMUND BURKE
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ...
EDMUND BURKE
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
EDMUND BURKE
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
EDMUND BURKE
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
EDMUND BURKE
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the pub...
EDMUND BURKE
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
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No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
EDMUND BURKE
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
EDMUND BURKE
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laught...
EDMUND BURKE
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand...
EDMUND BURKE
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
EDMUND BURKE
There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it...
EDMUND BURKE
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
EDMUND BURKE
Turn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKE
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE
But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
EDMUND BURKE
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
EDMUND BURKE
The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
EDMUND BURKE
Calamity is man's true touchstone
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Illustrious Predecessor.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, ...
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