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A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself. — Leo Burnett

The best person to get something done is a busy person. — Mark Burnett

I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances. — Carol Burnett

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

All women are princesses , it is our right. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

If you tell stories, you like nothing so much as to tell them to people who want to listen. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

So no I'm not perfect. I'm still as fucked up as I always was, the only difference is that now I'm happy with it. I accept it and make the best of it. — R.S. Burnett

They're serious"
"Well I hope so, they are getting married — R.S. Burnett

There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

It is in writing of the emotions that style becomes most individual, in moments of passion, betrayal, of life and death. — Hallie Burnett

When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

A leopard does not change his spots, or change his feeling that spots are rather a credit. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

We do not discuss the members of our family to their faces ... — Ivy Compton-Burnett

He's been spoiled 'til salt won't save him. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

side with his head up in the air and his eyes full of laughter walked as strongly and steadily as any boy in Yorkshire - Master Colin. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Sara saw that privately she could not help hoping very much that they would all be black, and would wear turbans, — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer. — T Bone Burnett

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

Don't tell me how good you make it; tell me how good it makes me when I use it. — Leo Burnett

Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them. — Leo Burnett

I want to write songs and play them for people - live. — T Bone Burnett

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies. — Mark Burnett

stories belong to everybody. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Justice isn't about fixing the past; it's about healing the past's future. — Jackson Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Before you can have a share of market, you must have a share of mind. — Leo Burnett

People do not like to lose their lives. That is the reason why they should not take other people's. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Secret garden that morning, and in the midst of — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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

For centuries, everything was taught through music. History was taught through music; language and mathematics were taught through music. — T Bone Burnett

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. — Edward Burnett Tylor

She was a sweet, pretty thing and he'd have walked the world over to get her a blade o' grass she wanted. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

There's no such thing as 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' There's only 'smart sell' and 'stupid sell.' — Leo Burnett

The Magic in this garden has made me stand up and know I am going to live to be a man. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business. — Erin Burnett

Comedy = tragedy + time. — Carol Burnett

A person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone. — 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

Two lads an' a little lass just lookin' on at th' springtime. I warrant it'd be better than doctor's stuff. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Victorian and touchingly respectable. "I have been crying," confessed Lady Agatha. "I was afraid so, Lady Agatha," said Emily. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I'm lonely, she said. She had not known before that this was one of the things which made her feel sour and cross. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled. She had not thought of it before. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

They're a pair of young Satans. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Never is a long word. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Dickon says anything will understand if you're friends with it for sure, but you have to be friends for sure. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian. — David Burnett

But age became him as it did the oaks and the cedars. — Thomas Burnett Swann

I think I feel on the whole that something's there trying to get out ... It's sort of trying to get out and wants help. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

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

I liked myself better when I wasn't me. — Carol Burnett

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them. — Carol Burnett

My kids - even though it's a family business - they don't even know what day or time 'Survivor' is even on. They just know it's on TiVo. — Mark Burnett

Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away. — Carol Burnett

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling. — David Burnett

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

I need to breathe" I manage to get out, his hold on me loosens slightly.
"I need you — R.S. Burnett

to speak to her. He was interested in his roses (which, she heard afterward, were to be sent to town to an invalid friend), — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. — Carol Burnett

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you. — David Burnett

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. — Burnett Hillman Streeter

I am often asked how I got into the business. I didn't. The business got into me. — Leo Burnett

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. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't like it, papa," she said. "But then I dare say soldiers - even brave ones - don't really like going into battle. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned. — Carol Burnett

I think ABC sort of hoped I would be really like Carol Burnett. I mean literally, I think. — Dana Carvey

America is the most giving nation on Earth. One of the best ways to feel better is by doing something for somebody else. — Mark Burnett

Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish. — Edward Burnett Tylor

Dickon, and Dickon brought his tame animals, and, if you'll credit it, sir, out of doors he — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Advertising is the ability to sense, interpret ... to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink. — Leo Burnett

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing. — Carol Burnett

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders. — Leo Burnett

The stillness seemed to hold her and she paused to hear and feel it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

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. — Mark Burnett

Into a passion and beat and kicked her, she looked only — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee. — Carol Burnett

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

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

Two worst things as can happen to a child is never to have his own way - or always to have it. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you. — Carol Burnett

I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows. — Lennon Parham

Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me. — Carol Burnett

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. — Leo Burnett

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. — Carol Burnett

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. — Leo Burnett

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. — Edward Burnett Tylor

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self. — Whit Burnett

Real life seems to have no plots. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

Color of gold. I have short black hair and green eyes; — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Politeness never was one of your strong points"
"Bitch was always one of yours though — R.S. Burnett

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. — Leo Burnett

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

Death is always sudden however long one waits. — Frances Hodgson Burnett