I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a l...
KEN BURNS Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify t...
KEN BURNS I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier...
KEN BURNS Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century m...
KEN BURNS When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episo...
KEN BURNS History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can chal...
KEN BURNS I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their e...
KEN BURNS I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head.
KEN BURNS The flame is not out, but it is flickering.
KEN BURNS I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before b...
KEN BURNS The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution ...
KEN BURNS Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritan...
KEN BURNS We want them to stop the current arrangement, share it with the public and hold hearings.
KEN BURNS I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more...
KEN BURNS Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining ...
KEN BURNS impossible to imagine what we would have been like without it.
KEN BURNS This is what I don't understand, why we're not taught this. I mean, you would be hard pressed to say...
KEN BURNS Oh, I'm just sitting here dying about it,
KEN BURNS I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life ...
KEN BURNS OK, I'm going with Altman,
KEN BURNS In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Am...
KEN BURNS [Sometimes, for example, we assume the people hearing us don't know anything. I've read a commentato...
KEN BURNS [Burns says he has been particularly inspired by accounts of Japanese-American soldiers who left int...
KEN BURNS History's just been made for sale to an inside deal.
KEN BURNS You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that i...
KEN BURNS First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y...
GEORGE BURNS Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE BURNS Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
GEORGE BURNS I'm at the age now where just putting my cigar in its holder is a thrill.
GEORGE BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could ...
GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE BURNS Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
GEORGE BURNS It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and ...
GEORGE BURNS I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at somethin...
GEORGE BURNS I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE BURNS Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on ...
GEORGE BURNS My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self...
URSULA BURNS I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, wri...
URSULA BURNS Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt our...
URSULA BURNS Xerox is really good at managing documents, and we're definitely good at managing through a proc...
URSULA BURNS Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, a...
URSULA BURNS Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern bus...
URSULA BURNS CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actua...
URSULA BURNS Fresh out of college, you tend to join a company because it's a job. But, you tend to stay becau...
URSULA BURNS If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, you'll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not ju...
URSULA BURNS Unlike people, companies outlive their founders and their leaders.
URSULA BURNS I don't want to overemphasize this, but not a day goes by when I don't think about my mother...
URSULA BURNS Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that ...
URSULA BURNS My perspective comes in part from being a New York black lady, in part from being an engineer. I kno...
URSULA BURNS I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.
URSULA BURNS My mother was amazing. I guess, in our community, if you wanted to get by you had to work hard. So s...
URSULA BURNS I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputa...
URSULA BURNS I want to stop transforming and just start being.
URSULA BURNS I've had many mentors, but the one that has the most impact was my mother.
URSULA BURNS Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The ...
URSULA BURNS The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For exampl...
URSULA BURNS The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's eas...
URSULA BURNS Impatience is a virtue.
URSULA BURNS As I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate - and really value - the other attr...
URSULA BURNS I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said...
URSULA BURNS Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found somet...
URSULA BURNS It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirte...
GEORGE BURNS It's not a matter of vanity; it's a matter of sanity. I'll never look forever young, but...
PETE BURNS If one of my players ever wants to hit me, he better do it really hard because otherwise, I'll f...
PAT BURNS Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the i...
PAT BURNS I believe in Wendel Clark. We want Wendel to be a prime-time player.
PAT BURNS They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my famil...
PAT BURNS The kids get cheated out of a lot of times with their dad. They were good about it.
PAT BURNS Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minde...
PAT BURNS Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I wa...
PAT BURNS As for my career, I always said to my kids, 'you don't cry because it's over, you're...
PAT BURNS I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
PAT BURNS Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.
PAT BURNS I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my...
PAT BURNS I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen....
PAT BURNS It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thin...
PETE BURNS I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
LARRY BURNS Fuel cells create a better automobile that's 50 percent more energy-efficient overall and sustai...
LARRY BURNS No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS My natural color is dark blond, but right now I like being a brunette. I did a movie last summer and...
BROOKE BURNS We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to ...
BURNIE BURNS I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small villag...
PETE BURNS Nae man can tether time or tide.
ROBERT BURNS An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!
ROBERT BURNS I have a big personality, and I think big personality plus blond hair makes me come across as glib. ...
BROOKE BURNS Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin'...
IRVING BURNS Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.
ROBERT BURNS I have regular peels and Botox. It's something I'll always do. People redecorate their homes...
PETE BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.
ROBERT BURNS Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting h...
GEORGE BURNS Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be for...
ROBERT BURNS The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.
ROBERT BURNS O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a b...
ROBERT BURNS Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
GEORGE BURNS The problem with drinking and driving is that trees defend themselves very well.
GEORGE BURNS Be quick to learn and wise to know.
GEORGE BURNS Life's but a day at most.
GEORGE BURNS Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life.
GEORGE BURNS Let us do or die.
ROBERT BURNS I look better, feel better, make love better and I'll tell you something else....I never lied better...
GEORGE BURNS Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root.
ROBERT BURNS It's good to be here. At 98, it's good to be anywhere.
GEORGE BURNS You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
GEORGE BURNS How can I die? I'm booked.
GEORGE BURNS If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
GEORGE BURNS By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
GEORGE BURNS You know you're getting old when you stop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while yo...
GEORGE BURNS Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
ROBERT BURNS Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.
GEORGE BURNS Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting ha...
GEORGE BURNS Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!
ROBERT BURNS When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.
ROBERT BURNS Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted -- we ha...
ROBERT BURNS I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNS Suspense is worst than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who w...
H.S.M. BURNS The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'men
Gang aft agley.
ROBERT BURNS Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
ROBERT BURNS I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.
GEORGE BURNS Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
ROBERT BURNS 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.
GEORGE BURNS The Thames is liquid history.
JOHN BURNS I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discr...
ROBERT BURNS How wretched is the person who hangs on by the favors of the powerful.
ROBERT BURNS The heart and benevolent and kind the most resembles God.
ROBERT BURNS I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid ...
ROBERT BURNS There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.
ROBERT BURNS Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised th...
ROBERT BURNS Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
A farewell, and then forever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll ...
ROBERT BURNS The great Creator to revere
Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
ROBERT BURNS Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's plou...
ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
ROBERT BURNS Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
ROBERT BURNS And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
ROBERT BURNS Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
ROBERT BURNS I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
ROBERT BURNS To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
FRANK BURNS I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
GEORGE BURNS Sex can be fun after eighty, after ninety, and after lunch!
GEORGE BURNS All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
ROBERT BURNS And there begins a lang digression About the lords o' the creation.
ROBERT BURNS O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.
ROBERT BURNS The wide world is all before us-- But a world without a friend.
ROBERT BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.
ROBERT BURNS Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.
ROBERT BURNS I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing: But, och! it hardens a' within, ...
ROBERT BURNS I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, am...
ROBERT BURNS Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poem The Cotter’s Saturday Ni...
ROBERT BURNS Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blu...
ROBERT BURNS What's a' your jargon o' your schools, Your Latin names for horns and stools; If honest nature...
ROBERT BURNS G-- knows I'm no the thing I should be, Nor am I even the thing I could be, But twenty times I...
ROBERT BURNS Farewell, my friends! farewell, my foes! My peace with these, my love with those. The burstin...
ROBERT BURNS Hear, Land o' Cakes, and brither Scots, Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat's;- If there's a hole ...
ROBERT BURNS O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to heaven is sent; Long may thy h...
ROBERT BURNS But pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. Or like the sn...
ROBERT BURNS Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS The mother may forget the child That smiles sae sweetly on her knee; But I'll remember thee, G...
ROBERT BURNS O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blund...
ROBERT BURNS My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent, Long may thy hardy sons o...
ROBERT BURNS Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of wo.
ROBERT BURNS Some wee short hour ayont the twal.
ROBERT BURNS The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
ROBERT BURNS Now blooms the lily by the bank, The primrose down the brae; The hawthorn's budding in the gle...
ROBERT BURNS Mourn, little harebells, o'er the lea; Ye stately foxgloves fair to see! Ye woodbines, hanging...
ROBERT BURNS The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.
ROBERT BURNS A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his ...
ROBERT BURNS A man's a man for a' that!
ROBERT BURNS Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin'...
ROBERT BURNS Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
ROBERT BURNS Suspense is worse than disappointment.
ROBERT BURNS Hear how he clears the points o' Faith Wi' rattling an' thumpin'! Now meekly calm, now wild in...
ROBERT BURNS There's some are fou o' love divine, There's some are fou' o' brandy.
ROBERT BURNS The fear o' hell's the hangman's whip To laud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your hono...
ROBERT BURNS Liberty's in every blow! Let us do or die.
ROBERT BURNS Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye, She draigl't a' her petticoatie, ...
ROBERT BURNS My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.
ROBERT BURNS Now a' is done that men can do, And a' is done in vain.
ROBERT BURNS We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine.
ROBERT BURNS His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony, Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither-- They had been fou for ...
ROBERT BURNS The fear o’ hell’s a hangman’s whip to haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honor ...
ROBERT BURNS But deep this truth impress'd my mind:
Thro' all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent a...
ROBERT BURNS Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of wo...
GEORGE BURNS If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding wo...
GEORGE BURNS I don't like to drive. I don't like the aggressiveness that goes along with driving.
HEATHER BURNS YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.
BURNIE BURNS Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!
ROBERT BURNS There is an animated version of 'Lazer Team,' with all the action sequences, that exists. It...
BURNIE BURNS