John Burnside Quotes

What the flamingo teaches a child, at that subliminal level where animal encounters work, is that gravity is not just a limitation, but also a possible partner in an intriguing, potentially joyful game.

John Burnside

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: March 19, 1955

Topics

WorkAnimalChildGamePartner

While the majority of my childhood memories are beautiful, I also have experienced the challenges that Nigeria has faced since independence.

Jidenna

MemoriesBeautifulChildhoodMajority

Ideally, content should be shared, mixed, mashed, and reposted - it wants to flow through the Internet like water. This was the point of RSS, after all - a technology that has actually been declared dead more often than the lowly display banner.

John Battelle

TechnologyWaterInternetFlowDead

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

Max Weinberg

InspirationalPeopleArtistPlay

Land really is the best art.

Andy Warhol

NatureArtBestLandReally

Any time you can be with like-minded people, laughing or crying over the same joke or the same scene... For me, it's therapeutic. You just feel a little less alone on the planet.

Michael De Luca

AloneTimePeopleMeFeelYou

Everyone I went to school with went to university, or took a year off and then went, and that was the norm - so I did the same thing.

Stacey Farber

SchoolYearSameEveryoneUniversity

Bill, The United States is not a company. It is a country.

Stewart Alsop

CountryCompanyUnitedUnited States

The challenge for a nonfiction writer is to achieve a poetic precision using the documents of truth but somehow to make people and places spring to life as if the reader was in their presence.

Simon Schama

LifeTruthChallengeSpringPeople

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of the papers in their home towns.

Robert Vaughn

HomeAmericanStudyingSearchingWho

There's always going to be a war going on inside of me. That's just, I think, my make-up.

Mickey Rourke

WarMeThinkInsideAlwaysGoing

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

Luka Modric

LifeGreatMy LifeHardshipSeen

I try to read writers who are better than me because it inspires me to be better.

Jojo Moyes

MeBetterTryBecauseWhoThan

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