Melvin Burgess quote: "Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away..."

Being a teenager is as difficult as living with one. And we've all been there. Perhaps that'...
MELVIN BURGESS

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job coll...
MELVIN BURGESS

She wrote, 'Dandelion, I love you.' And I thought that was magic. It's not in you, it's between you....
MELVIN BURGESS

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The expe...
MELVIN BURGESS

I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the...
MELVIN BURGESS

You can do anything you want. You don't believe me. You think, she's out of her head. Yeah, I'm out ...
MELVIN BURGESS

The uncommon man is merely the common man thinking and dreaming of success in larger terms and in mo...
MELVIN POWERS

Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Sco...
MELVIN MADDOCKS

For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own exper...
MELVIN CALVIN

I wouldn't argue the fact that we were probably a little too professional last year. Doesn't mean th...
BOB MELVIN

We continued to battle, and got their closer in the game. If you keep battling and put yourself in p...
BOB MELVIN

He handles the bat very well, hits the ball to all fields. I've already hit and run with him a coupl...
BOB MELVIN

Tony really worked him. That's as professional an at-bat as you are going to see. When you walk a gu...
BOB MELVIN

Tony really worked him, and that's as professional an at-bat as you're going to see. When you end up...
BOB MELVIN

We saw it all spring and have seen it in the [regular] season. We must have seen it happen six or se...
BOB MELVIN

Early on it looked like everyone was swinging the bat and hitting the ball hard and then later on, d...
BOB MELVIN

Other than that one little stretch there, I thought he threw the ball nice.
BOB MELVIN

A lot of times, it's one or two at-bats that swing the game one way or the other, and that was certa...
BOB MELVIN

They should get better and better. When you get off to the start they've had, especially with the yo...
BOB MELVIN

We'll be proactive. If we feel we need to bump him for a start, we won't hesitate.
BOB MELVIN

He is similar to Tony [Clark], who has learned this [reserve] role. Being a bench player isn't easy ...
BOB MELVIN

Is there any way to get back? ... I've got two aunties, Rosemary Parker and Bernice Taylor, and some...
MELVIN TAYLOR

She extended those principles of the founding fathers in a way that applies to all of us,
MELVIN WATT

Russ just lost it in a hurry. He threw the ball great for three innings and then lost his command. H...
BOB MELVIN

When a fastball is coming in at an angle like that, it's very tough to tie him up.
BOB MELVIN

You have to tip your hat to him. He did pitch a nice game. He mixed everything up and threw a few mo...
BOB MELVIN

I am in absolute, full and uninhibited support of Chairman Sensenbrenner in having extensive hearing...
MELVIN WATT

Our emphasis has been using police power to control people and not using it to help people, and we a...
MELVIN WATT

Sometimes the government makes mistakes,
MELVIN WATT

Principles don't mean anything unless they apply to all citizens of this country.
MELVIN WATT

Casey Daigle is really starting to climb the ladder around here.
BOB MELVIN

That's one thing about Helton, you're always aware of where he is. You talk about (San Francisco Gia...
BOB MELVIN

The game was played out as advertised. (Andy) Pettitte pitched well, Webb pitched well. One or two h...
BOB MELVIN

(He) has something to prove, and it's already evident that he's been working hard, throwing a lot of...
BOB MELVIN

As a starter, you need to mix in a couple more pitches, at least one more.
BOB MELVIN

We've seen a lot of good things out of Lance this year. Obviously, recently in the last month, he ha...
BOB MELVIN

He's someone we don't want to rush, obviously. If we have the slightest apprehension about getting h...
BOB MELVIN

He's always had to fight for everything that he has gotten. And he's excelled everywhere he has ever...
BOB MELVIN

I think [it bothers him] more so in the field than at the plate. It's when he slows down or takes of...
BOB MELVIN

Royce has been unbelievable as of late. He's playing the game very hard at a very high level, no mat...
BOB MELVIN

(Terrero) played a nice game yesterday. Unfortunately, he gets the highlight because of what happene...
BOB MELVIN

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions.
MELVIN MADDOCKS

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous...
MELVIN MADDOCKS

He's a little wiser, able to step back and make adjustments more on the fly.
BOB MELVIN

It certainly isn't the same we looked at last year when [Michael] Gosling and Halsey were neck-and-n...
BOB MELVIN

Certainly he's a force. Whether or not he's in the lineup, he'll make you think about what you're go...
BOB MELVIN

He just lost it in a hurry,
BOB MELVIN

Talk about pitching a great game. He's mixing in his breaking ball and his changeup just enough to k...
BOB MELVIN

Javy kept fighting out there. He gave up a bunch of hits but made good pitches when he had to and go...
BOB MELVIN

Discreet as an old teacup.
MELVIN MADDOCKS

Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive.
MELVIN MADDOCKS

Two days after the season was over, he was in the cages. He worked all winter on a consistent approa...
BOB MELVIN

Writing is the most demanding of callings, more harrowing than a warrior's, more lonely than a whali...
MELVIN MADDOCKS

We just kept battling. We were so many times in a situation, say, where we had first and third with ...
BOB MELVIN

We needed a win, period,
BOB MELVIN

His whole career is he'll walk some guys, but he makes the big pitch to get out of the inning.
BOB MELVIN

He just lost it in a hurry. I thought he was throwing the ball as well as he had all year, working b...
BOB MELVIN

After [Tuesday], and the way our bullpen has been beat up, we needed an outing that got us a little ...
BOB MELVIN

We all know the stories about buses being vandalized here. We see this as a great opportunity for Bu...
BILL MELVIN

The bus will run every hour from the Civic Center and stop at the major motels. The riders just have...
BILL MELVIN

I'm really happy with the level of cooperation we've gotten from Butte-Silver Bow agencies (and othe...
BILL MELVIN

It looks like it's going to be a great tournament.
BILL MELVIN

We're just basically getting to know each other better and getting to know each other's tendencies b...
CHASITY MELVIN

They got their composure back. I have to salute them on that. But South Plantation, you can't take a...
MELVIN RANDALL

Don't be self-righteous. We're all human & are therefore permitted these mistakes. But it is imperat...
MELVIN BIZA

No one is irreplaceable. Just play your part well, while its your part to play.
MELVIN BIZA

The sun will always rise, it is us who may not always rise with it.
MELVIN BIZA

I am used to the turf, because that is what I played on in Minnesota with the Thunder. The atmospher...
MELVIN TARLEY

The first thing I remember after the accident is pushing Jerome to get up. He was unconscious and on...
MELVIN GOODRUM

Sometimes the darkest corner has to be visited to open a new corner of light.
MELVIN BIZA

Embrace your weakness, understand it and conquer it. you may just discover it is your biggest streng...
MELVIN BIZA

In a year when we've shuffled quite a few things in the bullpen, this guy's really emerging as a guy...
BOB MELVIN

Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them...
MELVIN MADDOCKS

A man's work is his dilemma: his job is his bondage, but it also gives him a fair share of his ident...
MELVIN MADDOCKS

It is beyond the imagination of the menu-maker that there are people in the world who breakfast on a...
MELVIN MADDOCKS

Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or ...
MELVIN MADDOCKS

You know Gonzo. He's not going to say anything to anybody (about feeling ill). He's had this for alm...
BOB MELVIN

I thought it was great, considering we had to move the event inside because of the weather.
CATHERINE MELVIN

It's a great way to get involved with a good cause. I think everyone has been affected by cancer in ...
CATHERINE MELVIN

My mother had a bout with cancer. I can't fight the fight for her, but this event is a way I can com...
CATHERINE MELVIN

That's something we'll have to discuss. It's always tough when you have a full roster.
DOUG MELVIN

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both insta...
MELVIN MADDOCKS

We agreed to leave it on the table until his agents get here. They want to come and talk to Bill abo...
DOUG MELVIN

He'll put a little pressure on himself, but not to the point where he'll get frustrated. But you kno...
DOUG MELVIN

They can keep him in their system. They don't have to offer him back.
DOUG MELVIN

We made the decision that we're going to have our pitchers hit. I talked to Ned, and he wants our pi...
DOUG MELVIN

They have a lot of information they can bring. It's good to just get an outside opinion on things.
DOUG MELVIN

It's hard to pick and choose. You look at guys who had good years. If they don't work out, maybe you...
DOUG MELVIN

I think he can have fun with players, but he can also jump their (expletive) when he has to. He'll g...
DOUG MELVIN

When you're a team like ours that has to build, the one thing you need is stability. You need that w...
DOUG MELVIN

There are a couple of areas we need to get better at. It's not always the coaches' fault, but someti...
DOUG MELVIN

I don't know if the players recognize it because none of the players were here the last 12 years. Th...
DOUG MELVIN

Corey doesn't get the recognition. Everybody talks about Weeks, Hardy and Fielder, but everybody for...
DOUG MELVIN

We feel like with our rotation we're deeper and with our bullpen we feel like we're deeper and more ...
BOB MELVIN

On game day, I expect the guys to have energy no matter who the coach is. We just didn't have it tod...
MELVIN WATKINS

We had a couple on base [with none out] and Tony [Clark] up there. The ball Trace hit was hit good. ...
BOB MELVIN

We got down so quick, double digits it certainly doesn't make for a lot of enthusiasm when you are u...
BOB MELVIN

I don't think he's comfortable doing that. At the time, we were looking for a fifth starter and he'd...
BOB MELVIN

We stopped making shots and then they made us pay on the other end. It seemed like everything they p...
CHASITY MELVIN

We didn't execute well. We couldn't get into a defensive rhythm. We need to have everyone trying to ...
CHASITY MELVIN

If he hadn't had a good system of closing the gates, I think the miller could have drained the lake.
JAMES MELVIN

I can remember seeing the path of the old mill race,
JAMES MELVIN

I suppose they had a general store and a post office there, ... since we have a letter addressed to ...
JAMES MELVIN

After he died, ... there was some Confederate money recovered from inside the house. We don't know h...
JAMES MELVIN

We had some fun with the Bristol name, but there were the barnstorming teams that created the first ...
PAUL MELVIN

Physicians need to be aware of the potential manifestations of CMI and the need to treat them, and m...
MELVIN BLANCHARD

You come in knowing you're going to play 40 minutes against the best competition in the nation. You ...
MELVIN BUCKLEY

He's one of the best leadoff hitters in baseball.
MELVIN MORA

He's not wild. He was around the strike zone, ... It's just that sometimes the umpire doesn't give h...
MELVIN MORA

The external motivation lasts maybe one or two plays ? I?m just directing things a little bit. We ne...
MELVIN WATKINS

To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnersh...
MICHAEL BURGESS

I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything ...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I enjoy journalism; anybody does. You see the results immediately; you've got an immediate audie...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
ANTHONY BURGESS

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a seri...
ANTHONY BURGESS

I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose...
ANTHONY BURGESS

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectu...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS

He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Every dogma has its day.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I didn't think; I experimented.
ANTHONY BURGESS

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experiment...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use t...
ANTHONY BURGESS

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come fr...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Life is a wretched gray Saturday, but it has to be lived through.
ANTHONY BURGESS

There are no bona fide treatments available for embryonic stem cells. There is nothing in the labora...
MICHAEL BURGESS

That's the best thing about little sisters: They spend so much time wishing they were elder sisters ...
GEMMA BURGESS

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl...
ANTHONY BURGESS

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.
ANTHONY BURGESS

I mean, there's little enough in this life, really, and you only find it worth living for the odd mo...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
GELETT BURGESS

Readers of the twenty-first chapter must decide for themselves whether it enhances the book they pre...
ANTHONY BURGESS

If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fic...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a no...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
GELETT BURGESS

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
GELETT BURGESS

We are supposed to be the children of Seth; but Seth is too much of an effete nonentity to deserve a...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a p...
ANTHONY BURGESS

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
GELETT BURGESS

Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are dr...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow -- I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill...
GELETT BURGESS

For the serious artist does not satisfy needs
ANTHONY BURGESS

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of reti...
ANTHONY BURGESS

The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.
ANTHONY BURGESS

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and no...
MITCHELL BURGESS

Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese be...
MITCHELL BURGESS

If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflectio...
MITCHELL BURGESS

We're dealing with whether we're going to accept the idea of socialism and Marxism and athei...
BURGESS OWENS

Your Guardians of Freedom is a new program that enables unit commanders and Airmen to quickly commun...
MICHAEL BURGESS

I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's ju...
TITUSS BURGESS

Sometime they don't let you know that they know that they don't know everything, but the cor...
GUY BURGESS

My dad and uncles were among the 125,000 proud black American volunteers who, throughout their entir...
BURGESS OWENS

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
ANTHONY BURGESS

No one can truly be prepared for such devastation and pure malevolence, but the United Kingdom can a...
MICHAEL BURGESS

I never had any trouble being myself. Myself was a problem for a lot of people, but I didn't hav...
TITUSS BURGESS

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Nuclear power will help provide the electricity that our growing economy needs without increasing em...
MICHAEL BURGESS

On our way to the Super Bowl XV Championship, the Oakland Raiders played a frigid 1981 AFC playoff g...
BURGESS OWENS

Most Americans have some experience with nursing homes or other long term care settings, and nearly ...
MICHAEL BURGESS

He just played dumb on the stand. He remembered some facts and didn't remember others.
BILL BURGESS

It'll free staff up for other services.
BILL BURGESS

Our ultimate goal is to have all landlords maintain their properties in a safe and sanitary fashion.
BILL BURGESS

(The owner) is going to face some fines. The reason why we're going through the code enforcement pro...
BILL BURGESS

They're in violation of the standards for basic equipment. Some are immediate electrical hazards. So...
BILL BURGESS

We've taken three through the process. Two were dismissed because they brought property into complia...
BILL BURGESS

The aura of the theocratic death penalty for adultery still clings to America, even outside New Engl...
ANTHONY BURGESS

Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn...
ANTHONY BURGESS

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 pe...
MICHAEL BURGESS

Dubois was the first black American to graduate from Harvard. He was accepted within the northern wh...
BURGESS OWENS

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.
ANTHONY BURGESS

White Americans, stop apologizing; we live in the greatest country in the history of mankind, and it...
BURGESS OWENS

I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by...
BURGESS OWENS

The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, ath...
BURGESS OWENS

As a former NFL player, I am one American who will have nothing to do with any NFL Team that cannot ...
BURGESS OWENS

I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating tran...
MICHAEL BURGESS

I am well aware of my good fortune, and I only hope to diversify so I can do what I'm already do...
TITUSS BURGESS

We don't have to wonder or drift with society; the Lord has a very strong and clear pathway of w...
BURGESS OWENS

W. E. B Dubois used the NAACP platform for two decades to discredit the character, reputation, and f...
BURGESS OWENS

I disappear from the public eye and get rediscovered quite often.
BURGESS MEREDITH

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your...
GELETT BURGESS

On stage, everyone stays put; the vantage point is always the vantage point, and you have to play to...
TITUSS BURGESS

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.
ANTHONY BURGESS

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
MITCHELL BURGESS

Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.
MARTHA BURGESS

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
GELETT BURGESS

I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
ANTHONY BURGESS

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
ANTHONY BURGESS

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