John Burnside Quotes

A forest - the word dates back to the Norman occupancy, when it meant an area set aside for England's violent new masters to hunt boar and deer - is necessarily larger than a wood. It belonged to the king and was a fit place for his recreation.

John Burnside

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

KingForestBackPlaceNewWood

I think everyone deserves their place in this sport, and Bisping has been around, and he's fought hard and deserves to be the champion.

Anderson Silva

ChampionThinkPlaceHardEveryone

All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

Robert Redford

LiveBlack And WhiteRedBlueThink

It's fun playing small venues.

Tracy Chapman

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I don't think falling in love in Slovakia is much different from falling in love in Tunbridge Wells.

Tom Stoppard

LoveThinkFalling In LoveFalling

Projection of sound gives the stage a life different from real life. As actors and interpretive artists, we must not only be able to know the attitude of the script, we must also make ourselves heard - without amplification.

Jason Robards

LifeAttitudeKnowSoundRealStage

I grew up loving actresses or actors who were very classy but who seemed a little bit mysterious because you couldn't grasp what they're really thinking.

Diane Kruger

ThinkingYouLovingClassyUpWho

My emotions are strong when I start the season.

Claudio Ranieri

StartStrongEmotionsSeason

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Brian Eno

GoodArtYourselfPeopleFeel Good

I do accept that, with - with respect to those vague terms in the Constitution such as equal protection of the laws, due process of law, cruel and unusual punishments. I fully accept that those things have to apply to new phenomena that didn't exist at the time.

Antonin Scalia

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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

William Wirt

PowerGreatWealthMoreOutChief

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

Richie Havens

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'Mullygrubber' is an Australian term which means something that creeps along the ground; it's like a little grub.

Richie Benaud

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