John Burnside Quotes

With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.

John Burnside

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

QualityPoetryWritingStartWalking

The cooperation of navies from around the world promises high tactical value for the ships, aircraft, and divers involved; while demonstrating international resolve in defending maritime security against potential threats.

John C. Stennis

ValueWorldPromisesPotentialHigh

I love 'Scarface.'

Max Minghella

LoveI Love

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I looked for stories that were the story beneath the story that you thought you knew, like 'The Candidate'.

Robert Redford

StoryThoughtYouArtistActor

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don't know exactly what's in Matt Cooper's notes, and we don't know - and we don't still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame's name to him.

Michael Isikoff

NameKnowWayQuestionHimAnswer

Everything I've done goes back to pro wrestling. Had I not been able to achieve what I did, I guarantee you... my high school jobs were always working in the highway department - driving dump trucks, patching up roads, digging ditches, driving a forklift.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

RoadsSchoolHigh SchoolDrivingYou

I'm not going to go fight the best guys in the world without getting championship fights or championship money; it makes no sense.

Luke Rockhold

BestMoneyFightWorldGoNo Sense

When I finished reading '100 Years of Solitude,' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, I got really sad. I thought, 'This will never happen for me, for the first time, ever again.' Then I opened 'Beauty Is a Wound.' It's a completely different story and writing style, but it has a similar place in my heart now.

Lucy Dacus

BeautyHeartSadTimeStyleMe

But God really did bless me, you know? He really said, All right. Come on. I'm still waiting for you. Get over here. Get over here.

Liza Minnelli

GodWaitingMeYouKnowSaid

I knew that I was different. I gravitated more toward playing house, but the teachers were always pushing me toward playing the more competitive games with the boys. I spent so much time wondering, 'What's wrong with me? Why can't I fit in?'

Chelsea Manning

TimeMeHouseWrongWhyTeachers

There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.

Box Brown

WalkStoryThinkPressureSomeone

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

Ali Smith

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Climate change is a very real threat right now to our economy, the future of our children, to our way of life.

Suzan DelBene

LifeChangeFutureChildrenNowWay

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