Burn Quotes - page 3

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. (Umberto Eco)
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me. View quote
Vivien Leigh
My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions. View quote
Vivien Leigh
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light, but he left them a gift they had not conceived and he lifted darkness from the face of the Earth. View quote
Ayn Rand
You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman! View quote
Thomas Hardy
People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. View quote
Haruki Murakami
The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return. View quote
Thomas Campbell
In my judgment, my buildings are less likely to burn to the ground during one of your visits if you are disoriented from being treated like a sultan. View quote
Jim Butcher
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses. View quote
Zack de la Rocha
I gave up on this stuff. I gave up on my species and ... I gave up on my countrymen. Because I think we squandered great gifts. I think humans were given great great gifts: walking upright, binocular vision, opposable thumb, large brain ... We grew. We had great gifts, and we gave it all up for both money and God ... We gave it all up to superstition, primitive superstition, primitive shit ... Invisible man in the sky, looking down, keeping track of what we do, make sure we don't do the wrong thing, if we do, he puts us in hell, where we burn forever. That kind of shit is very limiting for this brain we have. So we keep ourselves limited. And then we want a toy and a gizmo and gold and we want shiny things, and we want something to plug in that will make big big big things for us... And all that shit is nothing! It's nothing. (George Carlin)
Rather than go to a demonstration to burn an effigy of the author Salman Rushdie, I would have hoped that it'd be the real thing. View quote
Cat Stevens
I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass. View quote
John Constable
Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. View quote
Edmund Burke
Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. View quote
W. H. Auden
Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire. View quote
Kim Wilde
The truly awesome intellectuals in our history have not merely made discoveries; they have woven variegated, but firm, tapestries of comprehensive coverage. The tapestries have various fates: Most burn or unravel in the footsteps of time and the fires of later discovery. But their glory lies in their integrity as unified structures of great complexity and broad implication. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee We don't take our trips on LSD We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street We like living right and being free. View quote
Merle Haggard
As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. View quote
Ramakrishna
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . . (Elie Wiesel)
I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything. View quote
Gloria Estefan
I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. View quote
Michael Servetus
Much early alchemy seems to have been adventure. You heated and mixed and burnt and pounded and to see what would happen. An adventure might suggest an hypothesis that can subsequently be tested, but adventure is prior to theory. View quote
Ian Hacking
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. View quote
Dylan Thomas