A. J. Burnett Quotes

Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

My advice for young people is that, if you want to be a musician, the thing to do is practice eight hours a day.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

I don't want to make music for people who don't care about music.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.

At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.

My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

I figured out early on what I wanted to do.

I can tell for sure, the technologists have made it clear that they don't care about musicians. The arts have been sacrificed on the altar of technological advancement.

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music.

Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.

The internet has surrounded television and turned television into an art form.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

If Picasso walked into Disney looking for a job, they would throw him out on the street. Couldn't draw good enough.

The best style is the least noticeable.

He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.

Facing your fears robs them of their power

I wish I was friends with things, " he said at last, "but I'm not. I never had anything to be friends with, and I can't bear people.

Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?"..."It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine...

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

Sadly, the words "reliable" and "accurate" can rarely be applied to the workings of the brain, particularly for memory.

One of the brain's most prominent skills is the ability to ignore anything that becomes too predictable, no matter how important it may be

Thoughts -- just mere thoughts -- are as powerful as electric batteries -- as good for one as sunlight is, or as bad for one as poison.

They're a pair of young Satans.

The prairie skies can always make you see more than what you believe.

The mere fact that Lottie had come and gone away again made things seem a little worse-just as perhaps prisoners feel a little more desolate after visitors come and go, leaving them behind.

She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.

Do you still believe that I am only a dream?"-Alastor

I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sence enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us - like electricity and horses and steam.

You said th' Magic was in my back. Th' doctor calls it rheumatics.

Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love.

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

What was I was dying for? The sins of the past? The wrongs of the present? Did it even matter?

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

you are going to be sent home....I 'm glad of it but where's HOME ?

You could refer to me as god and the odd curtsey wouldn’t go a miss either

That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.

I knew that the tears of adults were wetter, saltier, and much, much sadder than those of a child

There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.

We interrogate the world by making.

Being dead does have its advantages.”-Alastor

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

I know what it is to be hungry, and it is very hard when one cannot even pretend it away. -Sara

Is any life so isolated that it lives only in the past and not in the present and future, too?