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George Burns Quotes

At my age flowers scare me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: January 20, 1896 - March 9, 1996

Topics

Birthday Age Flowers Me Scare

You get spoiled as a novelist because you get to be the director and the editor, and you play all the parts, but as a screenwriter, you are a bit down the ladder.

You Down Play Ladder Director Get

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.

People American Bad Immigrants Nice

Writing is an amazing place to hide, to go into the rabbit hole, and pull the trap door down over your head.

Amazing Door Writing Hide Down Go

My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Job People Person Understand Need

My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.

Robbie Robertson

Mother Me Born She Kid Relatives

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

Me Nobody Kind Never Names Audience

A horse, you know, they can't say, 'Hi? How are you? I'm so-and-so,' you know? So they communicate through typically smelling or, you know, just body language. And when a horse approaches another horse, the first thing they do is they smell noses.

Language Horse You Body Know Say

I like to say I'm determined; some people would call it stubborn. It depends on your perspective.

Perspective People Stubborn Say Call

With English literature, if you do a bit of shonky spelling, no one dies, but if you're half-way through a maths calculation and you stick in an extra zero, everything just crashes into the ravine.

Literature You Everything Through

I would say I have a bit of a nerd vibe.

Say Vibe Would Nerd Bit

I have to thank country radio for believing in me.

Me Country Believing Radio Thank

It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one always has to remember that there seemed to be no reason in 1939 for Hitler to start war, and yet he did, and he started it with a world practically unprepared.

James Forrestal

War World Start Remember Gang Take

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