John Burnside Quotes

With each passing decade, history becomes less real for us, less immediate and essential to our way of life, and so, like 'green' nature, more of a commodity or an advertising gimmick.

John Burnside

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeNatureHistoryGreenWayMore

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

John Edward

PeopleKnowWantExperiencesOwn

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

John Henry Carver

CompetitionLookingYouMeasureTwo

Harmonies are nice.

Maurice Gibb

NiceHarmonies

No one could possibly look all the time like my photographs. It is dreadfully hard to live up to them. They stare at me everywhere.

Anna Held

LiveTimeMeLookHardUp

We always go out looking for live music after our shows.

Ron White

LiveMusicLookingGoAlwaysOut

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.

Roisin Murphy

FutureMusicBelieveHumanityEarly

I seem to have been everywhere in the last 30 years, maybe not in the epicenter but flying around the periphery of extraordinary events and equally extraordinary people.

Rupert Everett

PeopleFlyingEventsExtraordinary

Strategy 101 is about choices: You can't be all things to all people.

Michael Porter

PeopleChoicesStrategyYouThings

I come out before the matches because it's important the fans see I am in a good mood. When I get to the club, my mood is always lifted. You can be in a terrible mood, but once you are at Fulham, you are happy.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

GoodI AmHappyYouImportantMood

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

Jazmine Sullivan

WomanI AmPeopleThinkBodySee

Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.

Deborah Tannen

FamilyChildhoodWordsFriendsYou

When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.

Colm Toibin

TimeThoughtYouIrishUpMiddle

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