Burning Quotes - Page 2

• There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.

  Alison Lurie

  Sweet, War, Smell

  Alison Lurie (2012). “The War Between the Tates: A Novel”, p.35, Open Road Media

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• I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

  Tanya Tucker

  Perseverance, Thinking, Desire

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• 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

  Taken, Desire, Actors

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• Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.

  Cillian Murphy

  Passion, America, Burning Passion

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• The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat. Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting.

  Richard M. Nixon

  War, Sleep, Fighting

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• I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it

  Claire Bloom

  Ambition, Accomplished

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• I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?

  Yves Klein

  Fire, Flames, Way

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

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• 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.

  Ramakrishna

  Fire, Ego, Rope

  Ramakrishna (1960). “Sayings: The Most Exhaustive Collection of Them, Their Number Being 1120”

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• Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

  Alexander Theroux

  Fire, Hands, Should

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• A certain fire pretends to be alive; it awakens. Working its way along the hand as a conductor, it reaches the support and engulfs it; then a leaping spark closes the circle it was to trace, coming back to the eye and beyond.

  Paul Klee

  Eye, Fire, Hands

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• The fire first has to be laid before the match can be put to it.

  P. K. Page

  Fire, Firsts

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• In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

  Teresa of Avila

  Love Is, Fire, Order

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

  Paul Cezanne

  Fire

  "Cézanne". Book by Ambroise Vollard, Dover publications Inc. New York, p. 74., 1984.

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

  Mikhail Bakunin

  Fire, Theory, Spoil

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• 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.

  Pema Chodron

  Fire, Talking, Feeding

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.73, Shambhala Publications

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• Love is a flaming heart, and its flames aspire / Till they cloud the soul in the smoke of a windy fire.

  Arthur Symons

  Love, Heart, Fire

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Dying, Done, Today

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

  George W. Bush

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2005

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• I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Fire, Self, Secret

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• The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Men, Shallow

  Attributed to Glenn Gould in "Glenn Gould: Music and Mind" by Geoffrey Payzant, (p. 64), 1978.

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• For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

  Joan Miro

  Light, Dazzle, Sparks

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• You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.

  Howard Stern

  Fire, Careers, Narcissistic

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• But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Heart, Men, Light

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• And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Artist, Flames, Sake

  Letter to Wilhelm Taubert, August 27, 1831.

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