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George Burns Quotes

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Success Failure Hate Better

I think that, oftentimes, what people say is, 'We need an actress who'll be able to greenlight a movie,' and my counterargument to that is always that, when it comes to a teen movie, you have very few people who can greenlight a movie.

Teen People Think You Say Need

We're all one thing, and we're all just enacting different aspects of ourselves all the time.

Andrew Garfield

Time Different One Thing Just Thing

When I'm in the car sometimes it's like, 'Yeah, man, just put on the pop music.' You know what I mean? I don't want to listen to Tom Waits.

Car Music Man You Know Sometimes

Elvis may have been my first hero, but you couldn't relate to him.

Hero You First Him May Been

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

Angela Ruggiero

Women Little Girls Gold Win Chance

For myself, I keep writing. I've got to do something. I can't sit on my hands and do nothing.

Myself Writing Hands Nothing Sit

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

John Perry Barlow

Process Political Worth Trouble Out

I always want more.

Want More Always

I'm bigger than the typical model, and I'm shorter, too. I really can't say why it's all worked for me.

Suki Waterhouse

Me Say Why Bigger Model Than

I feel no desire to write a novel that takes place in the past.

Past Feel Place Desire Write I Feel

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government.

Government Execution Executive Feeble

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

Time Think Weird American Young Top

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