George Burns Quotes

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

George Burns

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleHairBusyBadCountryRun

We've got to be delivering young people, and people that are getting reeducated, people who are getting reemployed, into the marketplace with skills to work together, to understand computers, and to be able to be a part of that 21st century economy.

Ann McLane Kuster

WorkTogetherPeopleComputersYoung

I say 'I love you' to my daughters every day.

Amy Chua

LoveI Love YouDayYouEvery Day

Being 5' 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I'd just hit the crap out of the ball.

Summer Altice

FireCollegeMeShortPlaySay

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

Mary Baker Eddy

GodTruthScienceLawChristianity

Meeting my wife Amanda was the best thing that could ever have happened to me. She wasn't going to let me screw around my life anymore, so I stopped drinking and started behaving like a decent human being.

Jason Bateman

LifeBestWifeMeMy LifeMeeting

For whatever reason, I'm pretty good with pressure. I kinda just flip it over and think of it as positive.

Chloe Kim

PositiveGoodThinkPressureReason

I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.

Boris Johnson

PeopleLanguageFingerGoingOff

To be No. 1 is something I've dreamed of as a kid.

Brooks Koepka

KidSomethingDreamed

If I stayed in Florida, I would have a house and a dog and a partner. And, honestly, I was so bored.

Tituss Burgess

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My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.

Niklaus Wirth

TeacherSimpleInfluenceLanguage

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

Kelsey Grammer

PoliticsMeThinkingImportantWay

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.

Gunther Schuller

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