Burning famous quotes
04-23-2025
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A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand.
-- Adolf Bastian -
Trees and soils can absorb carbon dioxide released by fossil fuel burning. It would be great to subsidize responsible farmers and forest managers.
-- Alana Beard -
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
-- Albert Camus -
Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
-- Alberto Giacometti -
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
-- Alex Haley -
Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?
-- Alexander Theroux -
Pain seared through me again-a hot, burning stab in my gut-and yet my body found strength I didn't know I had, correcting as I fell.
-- Ally Carter -
In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.
-- Amadou Hampate Ba -
I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.
-- Amy Bloom -
How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
-- Anais Nin -
The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood.
-- Andre Breton -
My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
-- Andrea Gibson -
He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.
-- Angie Sage -
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
-- Anne Carson -
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
-- Ansel Adams -
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames.
-- Antonin Artaud -
When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling.
-- Arianna Huffington -
The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno?
-- Arun Manilal Gandhi -
Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
-- Augustine Birrell -
I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.
-- Ba Jin -
Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.
-- Barney Ross -
I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
-- Ben Stiller -
If you see what you do each day as your way of loving the world and helping it heal, then life gets to be a lot different. The difference between burning up and burning out is the difference between loving what you are doing and not loving it.
-- Bernie Siegel -
I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
-- Bill Bailey -
Without an end to the burning of fossil fuels, coal especially, most of us will live shorter lives. I'm hopeful, but very, very concerned.
-- Bill Nye -
When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you.
-- Billy Graham -
It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
-- Billy Sheehan -
To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
-- Brian Tracy -
The only church that illuminates is a burning church.
-- Buenaventura Durruti -
I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."
-- Channing Tatum -
unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.
-- Charles Bukowski -
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
-- Charles Bukowski -
I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -
I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.
-- Chris Crutcher -
The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating capacity worldwide. This is over three times nuclear generating capacity and roughly 38 percent of the capacity of fossil fuel-burning power plants worldwide.
-- Christopher Flavin -
I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
-- Cillian Murphy -
I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it
-- Claire Bloom -
Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.
-- Claude Levi-Strauss -
I had so much fire in me and so many plans...
-- Claude Monet -
There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
-- Cole Porter -
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!
-- Colin Mochrie -
You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.
-- Cornelia Funke -
Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.
-- Criss Jami -
...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind.
-- Dan Brown -
At least in my country, we have come to accept the flags burning, but what we cannot accept is violence, burning of embassies and intimidations, and there is no excuse for that.
-- Daniel Fried -
Dont worry about people telling you to stop doing too much and that you will burn out. Burning out is mental, and if you are tough you can do anything.
-- Dathan Ritzenhein -
I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love...
-- David Bowie -
Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.
-- David Luiz -
Burning fat efficiently boils down to one thing - building more muscle!
-- Denise Austin -
If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.
-- Diana Vreeland -
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
-- Don Henley -
Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage
-- Don Paterson -
Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.
-- Dorothy Canfield Fisher -
I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?'
-- Drew Barrymore -
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
-- E. O. Wilson -
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
-- E. O. Wilson -
Flesh is heretic. My body is a witch. I am burning it.
-- Eavan Boland -
I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"
-- Eddie Griffin -
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
-- Edmond Jabes -
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
-- Elizabeth Cunningham -
All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.
-- Ellen Key -
Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost.
-- Elliott Smith -
The Church exists by mission as fire exists by burning.
-- Emil Brunner -
The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.
-- Emil Brunner -
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
-- Eric Hoffer -
I have way too many candles. Theres always a candle burning at home.
-- Erin Heatherton -
There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
-- Gavin DeGraw -
As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.
-- George Carlin -
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.
-- George Eliot -
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
-- George William Curtis -
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
-- Geraldine Brooks -
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.
-- Geri Halliwell -
For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.
-- Geri Halliwell -
There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.
-- GG Allin -
Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.
-- Glenda Millard -
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.
-- Glenn Gould -
Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?
-- Grover Norquist -
I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
-- Gustave Moreau -
It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.
-- H. G. Wells -
If jealousy was the vindaloo of love, I'd imagined her tongue burning, and such a fire forcing her to spill her truth.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
After nightfall, I wouldn't leave a burning building without an escort.
-- Harriet Van Horne -
The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
-- Harry Houdini -
It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.
-- Hazel Henderson -
Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.
-- Heinrich Heine -
Our hearts are lamps for ever burning...
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Thus at the flaming forge of life Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped Each burning deed and thought!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.
-- Howard Cosell -
The Mandrake is the "Tree of Knowledge" and the burning love ignited by its pleasure is the origin of the human race
-- Hugo Rahner -
No nation, savage or civilized, save only the United States  of America, has confessed its inability to protect its women save by hanging, shooting, and burning alleged offenders
-- Ida B. Wells
