Chauncy Burr ... talks well, possibly better than he…

“I think we're all aiming to be something better than what everyone thinks we were born to be”

— Chris Kurtz

A man is always better than he thinks.

— Woody Hayes

There are very few institutions that give prizes to people who may not have got to be number one, but are possibly better at…

— Desmond Tutu

If you're not willing to get your 'worst one ever' out of the way, how will you possibly do better than that?

— Seth Godin

Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most…

— Robert Frost

I'm not against accents - my husband's from Lancashire and has a rural Lancs accent. We've just got back from Scotland yesterday, and I…

— Penelope Keith

America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house,…

— Robert Penn Warren

The real story of our times is seldom told in the horse-puckey-filled memoirs of dopey, self-serving presidents or generals, but in the outrageous, demented…

— Harlan Ellison

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've…

— William Gibson

These bits of poetry that stick to her like burrs.

— Jenny Offill

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will…

— Louisa May Alcott

I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.

— Hilary Mantel

Never do today what you can do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

— Aaron Burr

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness,…

— William Shakespeare