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John Burnside Quotes

Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Birds Woods Find Ancestors Nuts Set

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

Time Bad Too Much Taxi Twice Driver

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

Service Death Run Secret Protection

We've got to ensure that the quality and the capability of these forces will be good enough to withstand the challenges that the insurgents and the terrorists will present to the new Iraqi government.

Good Quality Government Challenges

To believe that your husband, wife, parents, kids, boss, job, bank account, or body is even partly responsible for your emotions, to think that there are bullets 'out there' that you have to contend with, that there are stressful life events to overcome, is to miss something vital.

Andrew J. Bernstein

Life Job Wife Boss Parents Believe

When I was younger I was taught that a winner never quits, and a quitter never wins.

Winner Never Quitter Younger Wins

There's not a doubt in my mind that you will see a spate of municipal-bond defaults.

Meredith Whitney

Mind Doubt You Will See

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

Music You Must Justify Instrument

I think we will find more and more ways in which technology invades our artistic spaces, so music is something you will need more than ever because it is there in time and in space and for that moment only.

Music Technology Time Moment Space

I got picked on a lot as a kid.

Michael K. Williams

Kid Got Lot Picked

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

Good I Can Want My Own Own Wherever

I try to treat my orientation the same way I would if I was straight, which is to talk about it when it's relevant.

Treat Way Try Talk Same Would

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

Dennis Eckersley

Change Today Face Think You Nice

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