Ed Burns Quotes
Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others.
I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
The upright, honest-hearted man Who strives to do the best he can, Need never fear the church's ban Or hell's damnation.
In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.
I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
She didn't need to go to acting school to learn that the essence of acting is to act like you're not acting.
Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money.
At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.
Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .
When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
The only art form that Americans have created that's recognized around the world is jazz music born in a community that had the peculiar experience of being unfree in a free land.
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.
When Jack Benny has a party, you not only bring your own scotch, you bring your own rocks.
What actresses do today when they appear on the screen is what they did once upon a time for getting to appear on the screen.
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.
Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!
Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
Bridge is a game that separates the men from the boys. It also separates husbands and wives.
When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.
When we played the back end of a horse we always knew that if we worked hard and did a good job we could become the front end.
Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.
Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
Don't eat bear balls. Eat healthy, delectable, plant-based foods so that you will never fall over on your cat.
Morality, thou deadly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou hast slain! Vain is his hope, whose stay an' trust is In moral mercy, truth, and justice!
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your gory bed, Or to victory! Now 's the day and now 's the hour; See the front o' battle lour.
Nature's law, That man was made to mourn. Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn! O Death, the poor man's dearest friend, The kindest and the best!
Those who remember only that the Roosevelts served hot dogs to the royals will be fascinated by this well-researched account of an historic and ennobling relationship - a great story!
Ye Hypocrites, are these your pranks To murder men and gie God thanks Desist for shame, proceed no further God won't accept your thanks for murder.