John Hill Burton famous quotes

It is difficult, almost impossible, to find the book from which something either valuable or amusing may not be found, if the proper alembic be applied.
-- John Hill Burton

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Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.

Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.

The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.

Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

Sometimes the good fight feels impossible, but I for one, am NOT giving up.

Only the impossible is worth doing.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.