Burn Quotes - page 7

It certainly would have been adaptive for ancestral man to have a chubby wife during stressful times of famine. Not only would she have had more calories to burn, and thus more energy and endurance, but since fat stores estrogen, she would have remained fertile for longer. (Helen Fisher)
Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt. View quote
Holly Black
No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out. View quote
Arthur Lydiard
Here at last is her smile: burn it into your memory; you won't see it often. View quote
Junot Diaz
Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right. View quote
David Levithan
Angel wanted them all to burn in h-e- double toothpicks forever. View quote
James Patterson
What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book? View quote
James Patterson
The truth is something that burns. It burns off dead wood. And people don't like having the dead wood burnt off, often because they're 95 percent dead wood. View quote
Jordan Peterson
When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax. View quote
Jacques Pepin
I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. He didn't want to burn my photo or toss it away, but he didn't want to look at me anymore, either. View quote
Alice Sebold
I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am. (Alice Hoffman)
Those you love will not drown or burn. They will fly away.' ...'Now we both have people we love who are like birds. They have flown far from anything in this world that can hurt them. They're flying away still. View quote
Alice Hoffman
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. View quote
Alice Hoffman
I wish I had cancer. I will burn in hell for that, but it's true. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
... some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. View quote
Michael Caine
O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty. View quote
Rabia Basri
I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up. View quote
Cornell Woolrich
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. View quote
Kenji Miyazawa
Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground. View quote
Mark Z. Danielewski
Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before. View quote
Thomas Kinkade
The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt. (Frank O'Hara)
I didn't want to make the same mistake my parents made. I didn't want my love to fade away one day like an old scar. I wanted it to burn forever. View quote
Jenny Han
An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. a burn for a burn. a life for a life. that's how all this got started. and that's how it's going to end. View quote
Jenny Han
Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok. View quote
Graham Chapman
Sir Beldevere: What makes you think she's a witch? Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt! Sir Beldevere: A newt? Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause]... I got better. Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway! View quote
Graham Chapman