Burton Quotations

When you say something to the mother, she wants to fist-fight you, ... I just wish something could be done.

We're not disciplined enough to do things correctly, ... We take downs off and it gets us into trouble. It's personal fouls. It's holding. It's facemask. It's the whole gauntlet of stuff.

I don't go out as much as I used to, ... I don't go to the movies or buy CDs as much any more because of these ridiculous gas prices.

I don't think it's so great they're coming out a week between each other or whatever. It's a disaster, ... The point is, those guys do great work. That's why it's unfortunate they're coming out at the same time. Filmmakers won't compare them, but everybody else will.

The purpose of the fund is to invest in habit-forming small ticket items which people think they can't live without, ... That turns out to (include) liquor and tobacco. But that's not it. I hate to tell you. The No. 1 habit-forming commodity is toilet paper.

We've got to make progress every week, ... We can't wait for a league game to make it important. Every week is important.

What you're beginning to see is a restoration of investor confidence after two tough years,

I think everyone in the industry realizes the potential here, ... It would be an enormous boost.

Most of the restaurants and taverns, especially the ones downtown, support the proposal I've introduced,

Two hurricanes of Category Five force go through those facilities and you come out with no single disastrous pollution, no loss of life and no major injury of people. Really, we've done a good job,

This was a very serious accident with major health consequences, especially for thousands of workers exposed in the early days who received very high radiation doses, and for the thousands more stricken with thyroid cancer, ... By and large, however, we have not found profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding areas, nor have we found widespread contamination that would continue to pose a substantial threat to human health, (apart from) a few exceptional, restricted areas.

We feel so lucky, with computers and all taking over, to be able to do this beautiful, old fashioned technique,

Every game is an important one, ... And it's not just the seniors. For juniors, they need to be on the field to get noticed by colleges.

There's just something visceral about moving a puppet frame by frame, ... There's a magical quality about it. Maybe you can get smoother animation with computers, but there's a dimension and emotional quality to this kind of animation that fits these characters and this story.

The success rate is still in the 70 percent range,

Anthony Williams gave the city a facelift, but he didn't lift up the rest of the city, ... You know what he was telling the city with all this development? He was telling the poor people to get out because none of them can afford to live in the Washington, D.C., he was creating.

For him to get to the professional level of sports, he's going to need to go where he's going to be able to excel. . . . I think he made the absolute right choice with baseball.

By and large, however, we have not found profound negative health impacts to the rest of the population in surrounding areas, nor widespread contamination,

He's another bigger running back-type that Iowa seems to like,

The good thing is we're going to have a debate, ... I think that's healthy.

The love triangle was the trickiest thing in the movie,