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Richard Burton

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KELLY JONES They're the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of our era.
NIKKI SIXX There's ups and downs of any job. If you worked at the post office, there's ups and downs. Y...
TRACY MORGAN Tim Burton, let's face it: he's into stitches.
KELLY ASBURY From the ashes [...] we are arisen.
LAINI TAYLOR So, when it comes to eating healthy, it's just doing the right thing. And it's not something...
MIKE DITKA Let's take up the most important issues first. Let's take up the reauthorizations first; let...
DAN WEBSTER My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I was in and out of Yes six times. Someone once likened it to Liz Taylor and Richard Burton's ma...
RICK WAKEMAN There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.
SARAH J. MAAS There are good days and bad days for me - even now. Don't let the hard days win.
SARAH J. MAAS Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd...
ALAN DEAN FOSTER The person I've always wanted to interview but never met was Richard Burton.
CHARLIE ROSE The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season
AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in...
AND CITY Desperate Housewives.
AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.
AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford]
AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-...
AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte...
AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio...
AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth...
AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ...
AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana.
JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight,
JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent,
JILL AND To make an argument worse the last thing to do is argue back.For it is like a stick twisting into a ...
GARY F EVANS... Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judge...
KELLY REILLY I have my good and bad days, but when it's tough I just push through it.
CHRISTIE RAMPONE The last few days it?s been Richard Seymour. That was a little different for me the first few times....
LOGAN MANKINS Limitlessness is the emotion that sunny mornings evoke in me now. A new appreciation for the present...
KALEB KILTON You cannot mistake Bush's clarity of purpose. He believes in a story about freedom and opportuni...
ERIC LIU Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense." (on Richard Bu...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR No longer are the days where I just kind of fly under the radar. Everybody's recognizing me. Eve...
CARLI LLOYD Yeah, he shoots some really great grass. Remember Days of Heaven and Richard Gere? They were in gras...
WES STUDI We've got the children so we have to deal with each other because we have to deal with children&...
RINGO STARR My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-r...
NATALIE DORMER On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to see...
TAHEREH MAFI I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup i...
WALTER ISAACSON You have good days and bad days.
USAIN BOLT We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'
YVETTE NICOLE BROWN Even in the afternoon of her best days. -King Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I don't have too many bad days because I just don't let them happen. When I'm having one...
MATT DALLAS What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days...
S. JAY OLSHANSKY In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and s...
IVAN TURGENEV You look at a herd of cattle and well, they all look the same... but they know. They all have an ind...
CHRIS COOPER In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the...
JOANNE HARRIS Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy...
KATE WINSLET These days it's cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool - a...
GIADA DE LAURENTIIS I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible...
ED OXENBOULD Let 's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Over the next few days, it will stay rather cool.
DAN GREGORIA Cool to disappear, but I missed you most days.
GAVIN ROSSDALE Mankind have angels and devils, this thing is called balance!
DEYTH BANGER There are good days and there are bad days, and I've had my share of both.
CHARLIE BELL On my best days, I fancy myself a combination of Dad's persistence/patience and Mom's toughn...
DAVID EINHORN I'm sort of awkward with technology, and I think I'm the type of guy who would have somethin...
BEN BASS It's the beauty and curse of doing a daily show. Some days you've got nothing to talk about ...
CRAIG FERGUSON Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I...
DITA VON TEESE I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
GALE GORDON By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn'...
HELEN HUNT JACKSON Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. A...
JON BON JOVI Let the Gods create the days, and just live through them.
ANDREW ASHLING When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's arti...
CHANCE THE RAPPER Any time I have to get on a plane and leave my kids for a few days, it's kind of tortuous.
SHEENA EASTON I like bowling. I suck at it, but I like it. You know what's so funny? I have days when I'm ...
LIL' KIM When I have bad days, I just eat lots of chocolate ice cream and dance to the 'Lion King' so...
BLAKE LIVELY I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Bur...
FRANCESCA ANNIS With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot'...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON For me, being comfortable is the best way to express my personality. Some days I like to be chill an...
ELODIE YUNG I never considered myself a supermodel or anything like that. I mean, I don't think I'm ugly...
CHELSEA HANDLER His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, prom...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Once I said to my father, 'Why do you want me?'

I still think that's the bravest thing I'...
CHINA MIéVILLE It wasn't cool that I didn't comb my hair and had books and wore glasses. It was never cool ...
AJ LEE Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to t...
TAYLOR JENKINS REID Even the worst days have an ending, and the best days have a beginning.
JENNIFER COLETTA Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and wee...
ROGER STAUBACH We were monitoring that system for days and days and days,
LIXION AVILA The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incid...
HOWARD THURMAN We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.
LESLIE WHITE You've always got to have that inner confidence in you. That's where it all starts. You'...
SCOTT TOLZIEN I shine bright like an excellent cut round brilliant diamond, D in color, and flawless clarity.
STEPHANIE LAHART I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ...
K.A. LINDE Broadcasting's best days lie ahead as both an engine of local economies and as an integral part ...
GORDON SMITH He goes days and days and days and days and days without missing, ... He's been hitting 100 putts li...
TIGER WOODS I actually had someone say to me, 'Lynn, you're going to have very good days, and you're...
LYNN GOOD You want to know why Barbra Streisand is so difficult? Because she's brilliant. She's a bril...
JERRY LEWIS Israel's days without Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip are gone and will not retu...
YITZHAK SHAMIR I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good...
BRANDY NORWOOD You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
LA'PORSHA RENAE So many parents these days are totally cool with their kids living on the couch the whole time. It&#...
BLAKE ANDERSON Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide
JOHN CROWDER Let's make a statement to the airlines just to get their attention. We'll pick a week next y...
ANDY ROONEY I did a film called 'Days and Nights,' which is a modern-day retelling of and inspired by Ch...
JULIET RYLANCE To me, the machinima artform has essentially evolved now into the Let's Play streaming world. Th...
BURNIE BURNS The coming together of a man and woman was a holy thing, after all. God had chosen this way of reple...
NAOMI RAGEN It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
GARY NEVILLE There's so much focus on celebrity these days; we're in the Kardashian era, and it's sli...
NAOMI WATTS I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days...
FRANCES CONROY

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RICHARD BURTON 'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.
RICHARD BURTON If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.
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RICHARD BURTON Well, I don't want to kill myself.
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RICHARD BURTON I think they could have used a second trolley though.
RICHARD BURTON The County salutes the tremendous contributions of groups such as the American Red Cross and also th...
RICHARD BURTON I rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a wo...
RICHARD BURTON How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events o...
RICHARD BURTON If you drink it straight down, you can feel it going into each individual intestine.
RICHARD BURTON Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a ...
RICHARD BURTON At 34 she is an extremely beautiful woman, lavishly endowed by nature with a few flaws in the master...
RICHARD BURTON I grew up among heroes who went down the pit, who played rugby, told stories, sang songs of war.
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RICHARD BURTON Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subje...
RICHARD BURTON I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guard...
RICHARD BURTON Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck ...
RICHARD EUGENE BURTON We are the doubles of those whose way Was festal with fruits and flowers; Body and brain we we...
RICHARD EUGENE BURTON As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
SIR RICHARD BURTON Meanwhile "Black sheep, black sheep!" we cry, Safe in the inner fold; And maybe they hear, and...
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RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing.
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RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
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RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON One death to a man is a serious thing: a dozen neutralize one another.
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SIR RICHARD BURTON I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without merc...
RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Temperance is a bridle of gold.
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SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives ne...
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SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.
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SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
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LANCE BURTON I'm comfortable and confident about the future.
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LANCE BURTON Harry Collins was the first magician I ever saw back in 1965 when I was five years old. He was doing...
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ROBERT BURTON Build castles in the air.
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ROBERT BURTON No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.
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DAN BURTON One religion is as true as another.
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ROBERT BURTON Out of too much learning become mad.
ROBERT BURTON Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]
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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.
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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...
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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.
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ROBERT BURTON He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our hel...
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ROBERT BURTON Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
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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.
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BRUCE BURTON As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
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PAUL BURTON He that will not when he may, When he will he shall have nay.
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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