A. J. Burnett Quotes
If you see a kid in school, who is a little shy ... that's when you should reach out. When you do, you are going to open up a flower and discover something wonderful.
It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before.
Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book.
I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.
A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth,' said his cousin. 'But we seem to have no other.
The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.
My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.
The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.
However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.
The work of an advertising agency is warmly and immediately human. It deals with human needs, wants, dreams and hopes. Its 'product' cannot be turned out on an assembly line.
Good advertising does not just circulate information. It penetrates the public mind with desires and belief.
My mother always says people should be able to take care of themselves, even if they're rich and important.
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.
The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.
If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
My mantra is: Realize you're going to fail all the time, and accept it. That doesn't mean I'm not frightened of it.
America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else.
If you can't turn yourself into your customer, you probably shouldn't be in the ad writing bsuiness at all.
I have learned to respect ideas, wherever they come from. Often they come from clients. Account executives often have big creative ideas, regardless of what some writers think.
Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
there were times when I was more at home in front of millions of people than I was at home.
Anyone who thinks that people can be fooled or pushed around has an inaccurate and pretty low estimate of people - and he won't do very well in advertising.
It's a given your family will be tired of being photographed, but don't give up. In another couple of decades, those are the pictures you will be glad to have.
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.
If you fill your mind with a beautiful thought, there will be no room in it for an ugly one. - King Amor
My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away.
We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.
When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!