Ed Burns Quotes

How can I die? I'm booked.

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!

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.

O, Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning! Cold pausing Caution's lesson scorning, We frisk away, Like schoolboys, at the expected warning, To joy and play.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

The wisest man the warl' e'er saw, He dearly loved the lasses, O.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Painters and poets have liberty to lie.

Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.

Nae man can tether time or tide.

To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For nature made her what she is, And never made anither!

Much of our trading comes down to a battle between our patience and our impulses.

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

You know, you meet some people, and do a lot of interviews, and you come across a Buck O'Neill and you know you are going to know him for the rest of your life. The same thing happened with.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

I wake the dead. I bring Jackie Robinson and the Roosevelts to life. Who do you think Im trying to wake up?

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential.

It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light.

And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair. Wha does the utmost that he can Will whyles do mair.

And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.

I am ready to burn out for God. I am ready to endure any hardship, if by any means I might save some. The longing of my heart is to make known my glorious Redeemer to those who have never heard.

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

From Paris we took the Orient Express to Vienna. I must say I was terribly disappointed; nobody was murdered on the train.

Much later in life, though, Gracie made a major contribution to the opera world. She stayed out of it.

People are always asking me how much I'm worth. Well, all I can say is, I've got enough money to last me the rest of my life. As long as I die in the next 20 minutes.

I drink coffee with my right hand, and I smoke with my left. But I talk with both hands.

Dress simply. If you wear a dinner jacket, don't wear anything else on it ... like lunch or dinner.

There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.

I would read Playboy more often, but my glasses keep steaming up.

If I paid ten dollars for a cigar, first I'd make love to it, then I'd smoke it.

A young mind in a healthy body is a wonderful thing. Especially for an old man with an open night.

You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.

Some books are lies frae end to end.

Oh, stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay, Nor quit for me the trembling spray, A hapless lover courts thy lay, Thy soothing, fond complaining.

We all know it's brutal up there at the front, especially those of us at the rear.

See Social-life and Glee sit down, All joyous and unthinking, Till, quite transmugrified, they're grown Debauchery and Drinking

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

I am seriously troubled by the proposed rapid consolidation in the telecommunications marketplace.

The best traders I know are also the most humble people I know, coincidence? Or has the market taught them some very valuable lessons?

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

Eat as much as you like-just don't swallow it.

Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching at air.

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.

The idea of the show is that it's active and that children will become involved and watch the show, but also participate in the show. And I didn't know if that would work.

Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree, And spreads her sheets o'daisies white Out o'er the grassy lea.