#p

It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy. ↗

— Marian Burros

#beef #done #get #gravy #hold

I was on the cover of a lot of newspapers. I was on the cover of USA Today for every single day for a month. I was on the masthead, so I tend to get recognized a lot, and in weird places. It's always flattering, and it's always odd. It's always at the worst possible time. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#cover #day #every #every single day #flattering

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. ↗

— John Burroughs

#kingdom #mind #place #state

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. ↗

— Dana Carvey

#characters #come #each #get #interact

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday. ↗

— John Burroughs

#new #path #something #take #took

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#any #horror #national #other #our

That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#forgotten #important #important things #invisible #most

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#am #bloodstream #bones #definitely #get

When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#films #great #great time #i #like

It's about avoiding reality through various escape routes that become addictions and lead to Hell. My character is addicted to television, chocolate, coffee, to her dream of her son, which has no basis in reality. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#addicted #addictions #avoiding #basis #become