Cade Burnett Quotes

Leave the orgasm, take the cannoli? ~ Kate Meader

Burnett let out a low growl and motioned for the agent to leave. Then he glanced back at Miranda. "How were you able to pull this off?"
Miranda shrugged. "I don't know." The girl's green eyes grew a sheen of tears. "They were going to hurt Della and Kylie. I panicked and just did it."
Della found her chest filling up with warmth. Kylie reached over and held Miranda's hand.
"And you did a great job," Kylie said. "I'm so proud of you."
"Me, too," Della added.
"Group hug," Miranda said, holding out her arms.
"No damn hugs!" Burnett snapped. "You can undo it, right?" he asked.
"I'm pretty sure I can."
"Oh, hell!" He raked a hand over his face. "Try to do it. Try really hard. I don't think our jail is set up to house kangaroos. ~ C.C. Hunter

she acknowledges Thomas only by bending down and scraping a handful of dirt into her hands, her fingernails filling with the cold moist earth and making them brown at the edges. And then she tosses it onto his coffin, where bits and pieces of torn grass and weeds have mixed with the tender soil and are sliding in a small pile down the sides of the domed casket. ~ Tiffani Burnett-Velez

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. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Cade thought about this. "Let me get this straight - you secretly pretend to like poetry to impress the smart girl in your English class, while she's secretly pretending to like football to impress you." He paused. "That's gotta be the cutest fucking thing I've ever heard."
"I guess her subconscious finds my subconscious pretty irresistible," Zach said, all teenage confidence right then.
"You were lucky to pull that line off once, Garrity. I wouldn't push it. ~ Julie James

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! ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

It turned out that between 1945 and 1947, 18 people were injected with plutonium, specifically: 11 at Rochester, New York, 3 at the University of Chicago, 3 at UC San Francisco, and 1, Ebb Cade, at Oak Ridge. Several thousand human radiation experiments were conducted between 1944 and 1974. In 1994, President Clinton appointed the Advisory Committee of Human Radiation Experiments (ACHRE) to investigate these and other experiments funded by the United States government. Their final report was published in 1996. ~ Denise Kiernan

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. ~ T Bone Burnett

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

How can stars shine facing your brightness if your beauty overwhelms them? ~ Cyci Cade

Speaking of things robs them of half their terrors. ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

When a man is overcome by anger, he has a poisoned fever. He loses his strength, he loses his power over himself and over others. He throws away time in which he might have gained the end he desires. The is no time for anger in the world. - The Ancient One ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Mother says as th' two worst things as can happen to a child is never have his own way-- or always to have it. She doesn't know which is th' worst. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

The body is the temple of the heart. How shall we reach the sacred image unless we enter the gates? ~ Thomas Burnett Swann

My interesting diet tips are eat early and don't nosh between meals. I mean, I can pack it away. ~ Carol Burnett

When you will not fly into a passion people know you are stronger than they are, because you are strong enough to hold in your rage, and they are not, and they say stupid things they wish they hadn't said afterward. 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. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

I couldn't get the laughter out of my head. It wasn't career. It wasn't even a choice. It was a calling. ~ Carol Burnett

Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

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. ~ T Bone Burnett

Reappraise the past, re-evaluate where we've been, clarify where we are, and predict or anticipate where we are headed ... ~ Toni Cade Bambara

fond of driving and the brown cob was a beauty, she felt that she was being given a treat on a level with the rest of her ladyship's generous hospitalities. She drove well, and her straight, strong figure showed to much advantage on the high seat of the cart. Lord Walderhurst himself commented on her as he ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

What the hell, Cade? You knew, and you never thought . . . 'Hey, maybe I should tell my
brother'?"
"No, Cole, I never thought that," Cade said, stuffing his hands into his pockets.
"And why the hell not? ~ Maisey Yates

If I were not a child with my parents, they would be more unloving toward me ... ~ Ivy Compton-Burnett

I don't know what it is to be hungry, ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

People have to be given permission to write, and they have to be given space to breathe and stumble. They have to be given time to develop and to reveal what they can do. ~ Toni Cade Bambara

With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process. ~ Charles Burnett

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. ~ Edward Burnett Tylor

You could refer to me as god and the odd curtsey wouldn't go a miss either ~ R.S. Burnett

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

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it. ~ Toni Cade Bambara

How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we'd come back to the apartment - we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood - and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen. ~ Carol Burnett

Mistress Mary Quite Contrary ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

It's worth emphasizing that failures and hardships are a part of every life, even the well-designed ones. ~ Bill Burnett

I have always been a very passionate player and person. I often wear my emotions on my sleeve, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. I hope that my teammates always respect that of me, as I trust they know my commitment to winning.? ~ A. J. Burnett

Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan. ~ T Bone Burnett

And as she lay and listened, it was as if she were not only listening but waiting for something. She did not know at all what she was waiting for, but waiting she was. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett