A. J. Burnett Quotes

There's naught as nice as th' smell o' good clean earth, except th' smell o' fresh growin' things when th' rain falls on 'em.

That's what I look at some people for. I like to know about them. I think them over afterward.

Oh,Sara. It is like a story." "It is a story...everything is a story. You are a story-I am a story. Miss Minchin is a story.

People's weaker side is not necessarily their truer self.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

Don't tell people how good you make the goods; tell the how good your goods make them.

Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.

You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.

It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

The best person to get something done is a busy person.

I am afraid the Spanish American has not always a very strict regard for truth.

People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton

I'm playing the game because I love it. But I'm also playing it for my family. You play for the glory, but you play for your family, too.

I'm definitely not a follower. This is our job. This is what we do. If you're not having fun here, you shouldn't be here.

Every one disguising the truth from a man who has a right to the truth is wrong, and ought not to be encouraged.

If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity.

No theory of the universe can be satisfactory which does not adequately account for the phenomena of life, especially in that richest form which finds expression in human personality.

I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.

I've always been able to recount things and I have a really good memory about dialog and what people have said before and this and that.

I can't tell a joke to save my soul. It's just not my thing, though I love to listen to jokes.

Daddy, when he drank, just became sweeter. There wasn't a mean thought in his body. I've always said he was like a drunk Jimmy Stewart.

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

I always preferred working with somebody so I could look into their eyeballs and play tennis.

There are even many huts built entirely of the universal aloe.

... justice is mercy's highest self.

Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.

As long as one has a garden, one has a future. As long as one has a future, one is alive.

Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things.

But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.

There is naught a man or woman can not learn who hath the wit.

It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.

when the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all.

Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

Things happen to people by accident.

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

If I go on talking and talking...and telling you things about pretending, I shall bear it better. You don't forget, but you bear it better.

Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

It's so different to be a sparrow. But nobody asked this rat if he wanted to be a rat when he was made. Nobody said, 'Wouldn't you rather be a sparrow?

People never like me and I never like people

So long as I know what's expected of me, I can manage.

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

I don't know who it is," she said; "but somebody cares for me a little. I have a friend.

To speak robin to a robin is like speaking French to a Frenchman