Melvin Burgess Quotes

I read all the time so it's difficult to say who my all-time favourites are. One is George Orwell, because he makes political writing so simple a child could understand it.

Melvin Burgess

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 25, 1954

Topics

TimeSimpleChildWritingPolitical

My top goal as your Secretary of State is to save lives by reducing fatal traffic crashes. When I established the Teen Driver Safety Task Force, the goal was to improve Illinois' graduated driver licensing law and, even more importantly, to save lives.

Jesse White

TeenSafetyLawGoalTrafficTop

The internet will catastrophically collapse in 1996.

Robert Metcalfe

InternetWillCollapse

The Big Dream of any entrepreneur really has very little to do with the entrepreneur. If you truly love repairing automobiles, chances are, you'll be a lousy business owner. Likewise, if you are fascinated by debits and credits, the dream of building an accounting firm with you at the helm is probably best left unfulfilled.

Michael Gerber

LoveBusinessBestBuildingYouBig

Dream food day, hmm - maybe a hamburger and fries, but honestly, it's not really a dream because I tend to eat what I want to for the most part.

Stella Maxwell

FoodDayDreamWantEatHamburger

Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.

Srikumar Rao

BestEnergyTryOthersElevateOwn

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Tom Verlaine

QualityWonderSoundI WonderLike

I have always said to myself, 'I never want to say I'm leaving a job because I want to spend more time with my family.' I feel sorry for people when they say that. But my advice to them is that you shouldn't have taken the job in the first place.

Louis Freeh

FamilyTimeMyselfJobPeopleSorry

Real laughter is spontaneous. Like water from the spring it bubbles forth a creation of mingled action and spontaneity - two magic potions in themselves - the very essence of laughter - the unrestrained emotion within us!

Douglas Fairbanks

WaterLaughterSpringActionMagic

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

Chief Seattle

ChangeDeathOnlyWorlds

I'm not interested in blind optimism, but I'm very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, 'This is not enough.'

Colum McCann

DarknessOptimismBlindEnoughTakes

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

Brian Greene

UniverseExplorePrecisionThingsUs

I am private because I'm still figuring things out. I'm young! I'm making it up as I go!

Allison Williams

I AmGoYoungOutUpThings

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