Ed Burns Quotes

When two people respect each other, the ability to be vulnerable and to reveal hurt feelings can create a powerful emotional connection that is the source of real intimacy and friendship.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor. ... Opera is where a man gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.

Music is my life - acting's just a hobby.

Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

I get a standing ovation just standing

It's no surprise that things are so screwed up: everyone that knows how to run a government is either driving taxicabs or cutting hair.

Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

Beauty's of a fading nature. Has a season and is gone!

Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.

When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.

Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The bursting tears my heart declare; Farewell, the bonnie banks of Ayr.

Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.

Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being.

As long as you're working, you stay young.

The heart that is generous and kind most resembles God.

I am passionately interested in understanding how my country works. And if you want to know about this thing called the United States of America you have to know about the Civil War.

I don't think that there has been a film that I've done that hasn't been influenced by libraries and archives.

I don't care what you do for a living. If you love it, you are a success.

Life is like pouring water into a Coca- Cola bottle; if you're the least bit scared you can't do it

Well, my aspirations certainly were not to be in a pre-school show. I mean, it's certainly nothing that I considered; it's nothing I ever thought anyone would ever let me do.

I'm truly sorry man's dominion has broken Nature's social union.

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

People are always asking me when I'm going to retire. Why should I? I've got it two ways - I'm still making movies, and I'm a senior citizen, so I can see myself at half price.

Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

My best advice: Fall in love with what you do for a living.

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.

I find you have to take each day as it comes and be thankful for who's left and whatever you can still do.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voice.

The flame is not out, but it is flickering.

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety.

A married couple that plays cards together is just a fight that hasn't started yet.

Be quick to learn and wise to know.

Or like the snow falls in the river, A moment white-then melts for ever . . .

My Son, these maxims make a rule An lump them ay thegither: The Rigid Righteous is a fool, The Rigid Wise anither.

But facts are chiels that winna ding, An' downa be disputed.

You don't have to be the best at something. You just have to be the most determined.

If there 's a hole in a' your coats, I rede ye tent it; A chiel 's amang ye takin' notes, And, faith, he 'll prent it.

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.

Take care not to wear stripes that are out of sync with your wrinkles.

The Thames is liquid history.

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.

Young. Old. Just Words.

The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.