Burning Quotes
I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.
For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.
God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.
I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
When you find your reason for living, hold onto it. Never let it go. Even if it means burning other bridges along the way.
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.
If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.
And now it goes as it goes and where it ends is Fate. And neither by singeing flesh nor tipping cups of wine nor shedding burning tears can you enchant away the rigid Fury.
Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim.
I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%.
One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological.
Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.
The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome
I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless
I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.
All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.
I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it is over.
The most important thing is actually raising up children with a true and lasting burning sense of curiosity. I don't even know how they do it. Good parents are a marvel.
Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
We've got a wood-burning pizza oven in the garden - a luxury, I know, but it's one of the best investments I've ever made.
Burn brightly without burning out. Throw your heart over the fense and the rest will follow. Keep your face to the sunshine and you wont see the shadows
A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.
You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?
My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.
I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.
His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle.
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea.