Burning Quotes

There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was?

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life.

It takes oil to keep the lamps burning.

When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one!

If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on.

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.

Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part.

Your lifeline...oh, the burning stick. Right." Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

If your goal is to produce firefighters and rescue workers, you have to produce people willing to enter burning buildings.

When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead!

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

I am like Dante, I walk through hell, but I am not burning.

In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

Burning the small dead branches broke from beneath thick spreading whitebark pine. A hundred summers snowmelt rock and air hiss in a twisted bough.

It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.

All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

Violence up close has a smell. Like copper blood and charcoal burning.

I spend hundreds of pounds a year on candles and it is such a waste of money. It is burning cash whatever way you look at it but I love them.

Better--while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.

Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!

The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.

Make the land of Islam a burning fire that burns their faces and feet wherever they pass.

Pliny the Elder, who when Rome was burning requested Nero to play You Picked a Fine Time to Leave Me, Lucille. Never got a dinner!

Burn brightly without burning out.

Burning stakes do not lighten the darkness.

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

In this climate - with belief in guardian angels and creationism becoming commonplace - making fun of religion is as risky as burning a flag in an American Legion hall.

History seldom destroys that which does not deserve to die; and the burning of the tares makes for the next sowing a richer soil.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.

No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.

His speech is a burning fire.

I defy any of my coreligionists to tell me they do not laugh at the idea of Dawkins burning in hell.