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John Burdett Quotes

If the world is telling you you're successful, but you don't feel it, you might as well have failed.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: July 24, 1951

Topics

World Feel You Successful Well

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Life Peace Giving My Life You Know

Had the United States not acted in Iraq, Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi would likely not have declared his weapons programs, submitted to international inspections and voluntarily dismantled its programs.

Leader United Would United States

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot... I've seen all these marriages that failed. Those people are always hollering at each other. That doesn't work.

Work Marriage Day Cooking Together

I am a hopeless optimist.

I Am Hopeless Optimist Am

I like to say, 'Chop suey's the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another,' because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means 'tsap sui,' which, if you translate back, means 'odds and ends.'

Food Culture You Back Say Odds

In a packed programme tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

Talking Meet Will Who Tonight He

I was thinking of writers living in East Europe before the Berlin Wall came down. They wrote fantastic stuff but were dealing with a situation that was almost impossible to deal with, but they found a way.

Romesh Gunesekera

Impossible Thinking Down Wall Living

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Myself Want Way Different Performing

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

Woman Clothes Wear Her Fashionable

I cannot bear the responsibility for one drop of blood.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Responsibility Blood Bear Drop

'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.

Bag High Big Bones Lists Bestseller

There's a real question of what the United States could do if we detain somebody out of Syria right now.

Now Question Right Real Out United

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