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John Burnside Quotes

It may be a cliche, but cliche or not, I fear the day when the only marsh harriers or peregrines I can look at are in paintings by Joseph Wolf or Bruno Liljefors - and no matter how beautiful those works may be, life is the great thing: life, life, life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Fear Beautiful Great Day Wolf

I was very personable and outgoing and was friends with most everybody in my class but I was a diehard dancer so I was constantly at dance classes and working toward my passion of dance.

Passion Dance Friends Class Working

Don't expect liberals to weigh the costs of their sweet-sounding policies.

Expect Costs Liberals Weigh Policies

The great thing about Priest, in all the years that we've been making heavy metal music, is that we've always kind of carried this metal flag, if you will - this beacon of hope that, no matter what you may be going through in life, there's always a sense of overcoming difficulties, a sense of winning, a sense of coming out on top.

Life Music Hope Great Winning You

I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

Home Live Feel Feeling New See

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Desire Achieving Beyond Anything

Jim Rollins is the king of the weird science action genre.

Jonathan Maberry

Science King Action Weird Genre Jim

Back in the day, when I was a university professor, I used to teach a class in Human Anatomy and Physiology. This class was popular with the football players, who all took it under the tragic misapprehension that it would be easy.

Day Football Easy Back Teach Class

My guitar has, like, become part of me, you know.

Me Guitar You Know Become Like

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow.

Colleen McCullough

Back Will Teeth Always Something

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

Great People You Be True Done True

I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help.

Tomorrow River Start Thought Push

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

William J. H. Boetcker

Success Day Yourself Mind Better

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