Robert Burns Quotes

Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects.

Robert Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: January 25, 1759 - July 21, 1796

Topics

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Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

Jim Harrison

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I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'

Melissa McCarthy

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We already do a couple numbers with chairs - chairs being a classic, Bob Fosse-ish, showbizzy prop, but the punk element is that it's just me and Stephanie and this funky band from Austin.

Megan Mullally

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I now have Grit Scale scores from thousands of American adults. My data provide a snapshot of grit across adulthood. And I've discovered a strikingly consistent pattern: grit and age go hand in hand. Sixty-somethings tend to be grittier, on average, than fifty-somethings, who are in turn grittier than forty-somethings, and so on.

Angela Duckworth

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I don't want to make it sound like a hotbed of lesbianism but I did have a number of relationships.

Jean O'Leary

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Vegas is a very fickle market that's about fun. It will change to what people want.

Steve Aoki

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We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

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I never ever believed that I would be able to give up on this dream which has driven me to live, breathe, love and embrace the game of rugby from the earliest days that I can remember.

Jonny Wilkinson

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I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

Jonathan Dimbleby

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I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

Cory Doctorow

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Telling the entire world and his dog how good a manager I was. I knew I was the best but I should have said nowt and kept the pressure off 'cos they'd have worked it out for themselves.

Brian Clough

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All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

Brie Larson

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