FastSaying

I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.


Gary Burton

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much unders...
VAL MCDERMID I wasn't around when Nic was playing Donald. I was around with Charlie.
TILDA SWINTON I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astr...
JIM LOVELL I was only 14 when I started playing the east London rave scene. At the time, I was so captivated by...
CHARLI XCX I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. ...
MAYA ANGELOU One of the things that turned it around was when I finally came to the conclusion that I [had] to go...
WALTER EKARD One of the biggest challenges we had in the first decade was not that many people had personal compu...
STEVE CASE I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Bur...
FRANCESCA ANNIS I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read a...
KORKY PAUL I was born in Orange County - in Santa Ana. My dad is from California. I was raised on the East Coas...
MICHAEL B. JORDAN When I started to play football, when I was around 15, 16, I remember the players that played on the...
ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC That was my one big Hollywood hit, but, in a way, it hurt my picture career. After that, I was typec...
BERT LAHR Because I was an only child, I don't like many people around, and that's why I don't hav...
CHARLES NELSON REILLY I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked wher...
BEVERLY CLEARY Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that an...
ANNE HATHAWAY I've been playing my instrument since I was about three or four. That's when I started bangi...
NAT WOLFF At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I wen...
LILY COLLINS I learnt how to make candles when I was a kid. My mom used to make them. Then, when I broke my leg o...
TWINKLE KHANNA You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out wha...
JOHNNY CASH I still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Ac...
GARRY HYNES I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I s...
HARVEY PEKAR I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me s...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD I have a lot of nieces and nephews. I was always around kids. I was like the family babysitter becau...
DOREEN CRONIN I was a true wrestler. I was a Division I national champion. I came into the business wanting one th...
BROCK LESNAR I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turk...
HUGH GRANT I didn't know why I couldn't sing - all I knew was that it was muscular or mechanical. Then,...
LINDA RONSTADT I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was d...
AMY LEE You need the right situation and you have to find that niche, ... The situation in Boston where I am...
MIKE KNUBLE And so when I moved to IBM, I moved because I thought I could apply technology. I didn't actuall...
GINNI ROMETTY We moved from the East coast to the town of Spokane, Washington, when I was about 13 years old, and ...
IRWIN ROSE For my senior prom, my father finally said I could go - as long as I was home by 9 P.M.! That was ar...
AMY CHUA Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA He’d moved toward me again. His hands released mine and moved to my waist, and I noticed I wasn’...
RICHELLE MEAD I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm Am...
ALESSANDRO NIVOLA I learned from my dog long before I went to Gombe that we weren't the only beings with personali...
JANE GOODALL I use Pinterest for everything. Book collections, trips, hobbies. It's all there. I planned my w...
BEN SILBERMANN I thought 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' was terrible. I'm a big fan of Johnny Depp...
DAVID THEWLIS When I was six, I entered a talent contest. I dyed my hair blond, had a chainsaw and pretended I was...
NICO MIRALLEGRO I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I coul...
JACK NICKLAUS I came from a folk-family background. Although we weren't really the all-singing, all-dancing-ar...
TEDDY THOMPSON When I signed with Scooter Braun and I decided to go overseas to promote my song, the only concern w...
PSY I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missin...
JOANNA LUMLEY Oh, it's fabulous. I mean I basically moved from the east coast just for this.
ROB ADAMS I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.
CASSIE SCERBO When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always th...
MAIDIE NORMAN I didn't run into racism until we moved to Nassau when I was ten and a half, but it was vastly d...
SIDNEY POITIER There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON When I was young, there weren't any teenage girls I could relate to in film. They were all put i...
BEL POWLEY After my parents' divorce when I was 4, I spent weekends with my dad before we finally moved to ...
ROB LOWE I was a very quiet, shy child. I grew up in a small town, Louisville, Kentucky, and there weren'...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER I've done so many jobs. As an actor, you have to. I didn't have my parents footing the bill ...
MICHAEL KELLY My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I...
MARK STRONG Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to sch...
DAISY BERKOWITZ I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too ma...
RITA RUDNER I was always the Doubting Thomas of the bunch, and I don't think I was convinced about the Allma...
GREGG ALLMAN If it's on ESPN, I'll start at midnight. I don't care. It was the No. 1 featured game, the only game...
BOB THOMASON When it comes to meeting and attracting women, many men are resigned and complacent. We figure some ...
NEIL STRAUSS I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice&...
BARRY SCHWARTZ There was James Burton, one of the greatest guitar players around, who played for Elvis years and ye...
BOBBY HATFIELD When I got started, the Bulls weren't even that popular in Chicago. The Chicago Sting, the indoo...
JERRY REINSDORF Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got ...
GARY SHEFFIELD There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w...
FAITH HILL All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was...
LUCAS TILL I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was qu...
SEAN BEAN When I was young, I preferred dogs, but when I moved into a flat when I was 18, it wasn't practi...
CELIA HAMMOND I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had t...
ANGELINA JOLIE I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instru...
WILLIE NELSON When I started out modeling, there weren't casting directors and there weren't stylists, so ...
NAOMI CAMPBELL I was also the romantic lead in The Boston Strangler - I was the only one that lived to tell the sto...
SALLY KELLERMAN The polls indicated that I was feisty, that I was tough, that I had a sense of humor, but they weren...
GERALDINE FERRARO I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls tha...
ANGELINA JOLIE There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar...
ANDY SUMMERS I mean, every single time I was there with Mahesh, I just tried to learn something of his game, beca...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA I was playing the best football of my career at the time, finishing top scorer in Italy three year&#...
MICHEL PATINI I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to...
ALAN HOVHANESS When I came out, when I was 17 years old, it was one of those things where I realized that there was...
BOB HARPER It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, ...
ELAYNE BOOSLER There was a fly buzzing around my head and I brushed it away. When I looked down the ball had moved....
AI MIYAZATO I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when J...
MUHAMMAD ALI I ain't got no beef with east coast, I think it's just being hyped up.
ICE T The first time I met Leo Messi, I didn't know who he was, only that I couldn't believe the b...
SERGIO AGUERO I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew ...
DONALD DUNN There were definitely curveballs in my growing up, from a family aspect. My parents got divorced whe...
TAYLOR HICKS The team was ravaged by illness early in the season, resulting in numerous games being played with s...
DAVE PISTONE I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are ...
SABRINA LLOYD I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' ...
PETE WENTZ When I told my mother that I wanted to be an actress, she said, you can't live here and do that,...
CICELY TYSON I moved to Dallas in 1975 and stayed there until 1980. That's when I decided it was time to move...
LARRY DRAKE I thought that some of my best records was when there wasn't a lot of work being done on it, lik...
GIL SCOTT-HERON When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me ...
ERIC SAN When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.' I was in the 9th Precinct in t...
JASON WILES I think everybody was surprised — I was looking forward to working with him for the next four years...
CHARLES ECKSTINE When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By jun...
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I a...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION

More Gary Burton

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quarte...
GARY BURTON I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played...
GARY BURTON I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no ot...
GARY BURTON I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check someth...
GARY BURTON It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new ...
GARY BURTON I think I always have been someone who likes to push at the edges of things, looking for something d...
GARY BURTON I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from play...
GARY BURTON I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we...
GARY BURTON Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on thei...
GARY BURTON There are a few things that I will hopefully be credited for as a pioneer. One is my four-mallet pla...
GARY BURTON It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough...
GARY BURTON But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynam...
GARY BURTON Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvisi...
GARY BURTON There are certainly legislators up here that won't take a dime from anyone, but yet, they'll go to l...
GARY BURTON Temperance is a bridle of gold.
BURTON When you say something to the mother, she wants to fist-fight you, ... I just wish something could b...
BURTON [Betsy Burton, an analyst at Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner Inc. and a longtime critic of the UPU pri...
BURTON Science is particularly needed to bring the attention of government policy-makers to problems that t...
BURTON You're very affected by your early life, ... I think if you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, ...
BURTON The most recent testimony seems to be an admission that Microsoft set up the browser to knock off Ne...
BURTON We're going to make a big din before it's over,
BURTON When they returned the punt, ... the momentum totally swung in their favor.
BURTON However, except for two-thirds of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska, the numbers are predicated on very,...
BURTON The airport development plan is going to determine the actual scope of the project and the cost, ......
BURTON In every area of inquiry that we're involved in, suffice it to say there are an awful lot of interes...
BURTON The guys who are seniors this year were sophomores when we came within a game of the playoffs [in 20...
BURTON Espionage debriefings are exhaustive and meticulous,
BURTON Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extingui...
BURTON There are refineries that are not ready to take the product at the end of the pipe. So it's not just...
BURTON Carl said, 'Please, can you come and set up your tents here?' So here we are. We're going to stay as...
BURTON Is it a down year in the Big Ten region? No, ... But I think it's somewhat down in the particular ar...
BURTON It's nice to come out on the winning side of one of those,
BURTON Teachers have described him as friendly, well-liked,
BURTON When we hit on all cylinders like we did today on offense, defense and special teams, I know that we...
BURTON The success rate is still in the 70 percent range,
BURTON Anytime anybody works and accumulates something, I don't think that it's right for somebody to just ...
BURTON (Hunter is) one of the top players in the country, and you're talking about a guy who has scholarshi...
BURTON He's another bigger running back-type that Iowa seems to like,
BURTON Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life...
TIM BURTON It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
TIM BURTON I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meanin...
TIM BURTON Just keep going like crazy and look back when it's over. Otherwise you just get confused.
CLIFF BURTON I have a tendency as an actress in general to ground my characters. Even when doing outlandish chara...
KATE BURTON I have literally played the most interesting parts since I turned 40.
KATE BURTON I was lucky enough to be able to grow and mature in a natural way as an actress.
KATE BURTON It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what...
KATE BURTON I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed ...
KATE BURTON For me, hour-long drama was always the thing I felt the most comfortable doing, and I've played ...
KATE BURTON I recurred on 'Grey's Anatomy' for three years, and at the same time, I recurred for eig...
KATE BURTON I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
KATE BURTON I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the oppo...
KATE BURTON It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a life...
LANCE BURTON I've worked nonstop for 31 years. I've counted down myself hundreds of cues for everything i...
LANCE BURTON I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.
LANCE BURTON I'm very happy to be employed. I always contend that in show business that if you're employe...
LANCE BURTON It's new and different every night. The charge you get from a good audience is like nothing else...
LANCE BURTON That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine...
LANCE BURTON I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lo...
LANCE BURTON I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
LANCE BURTON The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pa...
LANCE BURTON When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that...
LANCE BURTON Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing...
LANCE BURTON We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic b...
LANCE BURTON I feel like I'm the luckiest person alive. I'm always waiting for that phone call: 'Hell...
LANCE BURTON When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me t...
TIM BURTON What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of th...
BURTON RASCOE I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than kn...
ROBERT BURTON Build castles in the air.
ROBERT BURTON For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.
ROBERT BURTON No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
ROBERT BURTON See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
ROBERT BURTON Penny wise, pound foolish.
ROBERT BURTON We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved....
DAN BURTON One religion is as true as another.
ROBERT BURTON There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because th...
BURTON CUMMINGS Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead t...
ROBERT BURTON The miller sees not all the water that goes by his mill.
ROBERT BURTON I would help others out of a fellow-feeling.
ROBERT BURTON False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives n...
RICHARD BURTON Out of too much learning become mad.
ROBERT BURTON Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
ROBERT BURTON Every schoolboy hath that famous testament of Grunnius Corocotta Porcellus at his fingers' ends.
ROBERT BURTON One person's craziness is another person's reality.
TIM BURTON We all know interspecies romance is weird.
TIM BURTON One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
ROBERT BURTON No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
ROBERT BURTON The fear of death is worse than death.
ROBERT BURTON They are proud in humility, proud that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON The devil is the author of confusion.
ROBERT BURTON Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
ROBERT BURTON A mere scholar, a mere ass.
ROBERT BURTON A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.
ROBERT BURTON Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold,...
ROBERT BURTON A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
ROBERT BURTON I may not here omit those two main plagues, and common dotages of human kind, wine and women, which ...
ROBERT BURTON What can't be cured must be endured.
ROBERT BURTON There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share of...
PAUL BURTON A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe.
PIERRE BURTON England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as...
ROBERT BURTON Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel...
HENRY BURTON When we were growing up and saw a Ray Harryhausen movie, we were interested in how it was done. But ...
TIM BURTON Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,...
ROBERT BURTON All literature is political.
LEVAR BURTON For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.
ROBERT BURTON 'Tis a hydra's head contention; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by h...
ROBERT BURTON He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our hel...
ROBERT BURTON Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
ROBERT BURTON Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
ROBERT BURTON [Witches] steal young children out of their cradles, ministerio doemonum, and put deformed in their...
ROBERT BURTON Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.
ROBERT BURTON The Devil himself, which is the author of confusion and lies.
ROBERT BURTON Like the watermen that row one way and look another.
ROBERT BURTON Birds of a feather will gather together.
ROBERT BURTON Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outrid...
ROBERT BURTON Homer himself must beg if he want means, and as by report sometimes he did "go from door to door an...
ROBERT BURTON Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer.
ROBERT BURTON For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
ROBERT BURTON There has to be positive action that allows the most disadvantaged people to get their fair share o...
PAUL BURTON He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
ROBERT BURTON [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up li...
ROBERT BURTON England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for wom...
ROBERT BURTON Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is look...
TIM BURTON Many things happen between the cup and the lip.
ROBERT BURTON He is only fanastical that is not in fashion.
ROBERT BURTON The Chinese say that we Europeans have one eye, they themselves two, all the world else is blinde.
ROBERT BURTON Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?
ROBERT BURTON Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun him; He who kno...
LADY BURTON Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which mo...
ROBERT BURTON For idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON All places are distant from heaven alike.
ROBERT BURTON As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet ...
ROBERT BURTON There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover,
Tomorrow, just you wait and see.
NAT BURTON I’m doing the absolute opposite of giving myself away. As far as I’m concerned, I’ll be comple...
JESSIE BURTON We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. W...
LEVAR BURTON How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is ...
DAN BURTON In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forge...
TIM BURTON Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it...
HILARIE BURTON There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.
HILARIE BURTON Working on 'Nightmare Before Christmas,' I had endless arguments, like the studio saying, &#...
TIM BURTON And it's here and it's ready and we can really revolutionize the way we educate our children...
LEVAR BURTON I started to do stop-motion when I was a kid. You take a Super 8 and make some models, and move, cli...
TIM BURTON A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
RICHARD BURTON An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.
RICHARD BURTON False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives ne...
RICHARD BURTON Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
TIM BURTON I always liked strange characters.
TIM BURTON I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the h...
TIM BURTON Dave Reichert is vulnerable. He represents a district that Kerry won. He doesn't really fit the dist...
BILL BURTON What we're passionate about, along with Jennifer, is design from the essential elements. The raw cha...
BILL BURTON Leadership in Congress isn't just about the personalities; it's about policies and priorities.
BILL BURTON We liked that look, but when the steel plates came to the house, they were hot-rolled steel, so they...
BILL BURTON Allowing Tom DeLay to sit on a committee in charge of giving out money is like putting Michael Brown...
BILL BURTON Tom DeLay 's decision to leave Congress is just the latest piece of evidence that the Republican Par...
BILL BURTON New Jersey families sent Congressman Scott Garrett to Washington to represent their values and compa...
BILL BURTON Unfortunately for Speaker Hastert and his special-interest cronies, ... one photo-op press conferenc...
BILL BURTON If you talk to any member of Congress, they will tell you that when they go home, this is what they ...
BILL BURTON Dave Reichert is vulnerable. He represents a district that Kerry won. He doesn't really fit the dist...
BILL BURTON It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dres...
SARAH BURTON I think you know what you're up against when you take on a piece that you know is going to involve d...
AMANDA BURTON It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate g...
AMANDA BURTON I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock tha...
AMANDA BURTON I think this is a very difficult job, especially for women - there are too few roles around. I never...
AMANDA BURTON Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.
AMANDA BURTON I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of ...
AMANDA BURTON Facing up to non-being enables us to put our life into perspective, see it in its entirety, and ther...
NEEL BURTON In 1949, neurologist Egas Moniz (1874-1955) received a Nobel Prize for his discovery of ‘the thera...
NEEL BURTON If two people with no symptoms in common can both receive the same diagnosis of schizophrenia, then ...
NEEL BURTON Rather than being medicalized or romanticized, mental disorders, or mental dis-eases, should be unde...
NEEL BURTON As it stands, the diagnostic criteria for depression are so loose that two people with absolutely no...
NEEL BURTON Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
CLIFF BURTON No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
ROBERT BURTON I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where ...
HILARIE BURTON Idleness is an appendix to nobility.
ROBERT BURTON When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally dev...
TIM BURTON Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a chil...
TIM BURTON Almost in every kingdom the most ancient families have been at first princes' bastards.
ROBERT BURTON Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, f...
ROBERT BURTON I was a complete tomboy. I loved wandering out in storms or walking on the beaches in the dark. It w...
AMANDA BURTON 'Beauty Queen' is the weirdest, strangest, and most perfect play to do before 'Hedda Gab...
KATE BURTON I never saw Frankenstein or King Kong or the Creature from the Black Lagoon as bad guys. They were t...
TIM BURTON We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is...
LEVAR BURTON Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playin...
CLIFF BURTON Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.
RICHARD BURTON The reason why Three Mile Island makes such a big impact is because of a Jane Fonda movie called ...
BURTON RICHTER When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.
ROBERT BURTON They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.
ROBERT BURTON It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much,...
TIM BURTON Danny Elfman, the composer, tells me the only time he thinks I'm happy is when I'm on the sc...
TIM BURTON Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old faci...
BURTON RICHTER Starving the future to feed the present is a mistake - it leads to obsolescence and stagnation. Some...
BURTON RICHTER I succumbed to temptation and became a scientific administrator, first as Technical Director of the ...
BURTON RICHTER I was born on 22 March 1931 in New York, the elder child of Abraham and Fanny Richter.
BURTON RICHTER Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time...
BURTON RICHTER In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry ...
BURTON RICHTER Science is particularly needed to bring the attention of government policy-makers to problems that t...
BURTON RICHTER Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disast...
BURTON RICHTER While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important...
BURTON RICHTER I completed my senior thesis on the quadratic Zeeman effect in hydrogen.
BURTON RICHTER