A. J. Burnett Quotes

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go.

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

Before you go to bed, write down three 'gratefuls' for the day and three 'did wells' (they can even include something as simple as doing the laundry)-the results can be amazing!

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit.

It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.

I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren’t pretty, or smart, or young. They’re still princesses.

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Facing your fears robs them of their power.

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best.

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

Don’t tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it.

Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read.

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany.

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.

As long as you have a garden you have a future and as long as you have a future you are alive.

If you want to know the feeling [of labor pain], just take your bottom lip and pull it over your head.

Adolescence is just one big walking pimple.

What helps people, helps business.

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

Well, I don't know how astute I am, but I did want to be a journalist when I was growing up.

I'm really not that funny in real life. But I am the best audience one could find. I love to laugh.

Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden-in all the places.

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart.

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story.

If you don't get noticed, you don't have anything. You just have to be noticed, but the art is in getting noticed naturally, without screaming or without tricks.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.

And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink.

Products are made in the factory, but brands are created in the mind.