She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you. It's bigger and stronger than you are


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GELETT BURGESS
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their...
ANTHONY BURGESS
The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are dr...
ANTHONY BURGESS
The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn...
ANTHONY BURGESS
Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow -- I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill...
GELETT BURGESS
For the serious artist does not satisfy needs
ANTHONY BURGESS
Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
ANTHONY BURGESS
All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
ANTHONY BURGESS
Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and no...
MITCHELL BURGESS
Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese be...
MITCHELL BURGESS
If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflectio...
MITCHELL BURGESS
We're dealing with whether we're going to accept the idea of socialism and Marxism and athei...
BURGESS OWENS
Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly commun...
MICHAEL BURGESS
I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's ju...
TITUSS BURGESS
Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the cor...
GUY BURGESS
My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entir...
BURGESS OWENS
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
ANTHONY BURGESS
No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can a...
MICHAEL BURGESS
I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav...
TITUSS BURGESS
Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
ANTHONY BURGESS
Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing em...
MICHAEL BURGESS
On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff g...
BURGESS OWENS
Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly ...
MICHAEL BURGESS
He just played dumb on the stand. He remembered some facts and didn't remember others.
BILL BURGESS
It'll free staff up for other services.
BILL BURGESS
Our ultimate goal is to have all landlords maintain their properties in a safe and sanitary fashion.
BILL BURGESS
(The owner) is going to face some fines. The reason why we're going through the code enforcement pro...
BILL BURGESS
They're in violation of the standards for basic equipment. Some are immediate electrical hazards. So...
BILL BURGESS
We've taken three through the process. Two were dismissed because they brought property into complia...
BILL BURGESS
The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl...
ANTHONY BURGESS
Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
ANTHONY BURGESS
Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn...
ANTHONY BURGESS
We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 pe...
MICHAEL BURGESS
Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern wh...
BURGESS OWENS
The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
ANTHONY BURGESS
White Americans, stop apologizing; we live in the greatest country in the history of mankind, and it...
BURGESS OWENS
I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by...
BURGESS OWENS
The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, ath...
BURGESS OWENS
As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot ...
BURGESS OWENS
I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating tran...
MICHAEL BURGESS
I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already do...
TITUSS BURGESS
We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of w...
BURGESS OWENS
W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and f...
BURGESS OWENS
I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
BURGESS MEREDITH
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your...
GELETT BURGESS
On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to...
TITUSS BURGESS
He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
ANTHONY BURGESS
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
MITCHELL BURGESS
Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.
MARTHA BURGESS
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
GELETT BURGESS
I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
ANTHONY BURGESS
Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
ANTHONY BURGESS
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
ANTHONY BURGESS