Burning Quotes - Page 9

• You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.

  Karel Capek

  Stars, Flames, Hands

  "R.U.R". Book by Karel Capek, January 25, 1921.

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• Many billions of years will elapse before the smallest, youngest stars complete their nuclear burning and shrink into white dwarfs. But with slow, agonizing finality perpetual night will surely fall.

  Paul Davies

  Stars, Fall, Night

  Paul Davies (2008). “The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures About The Ultimate Fate Of The Universe”, p.50, Basic Books

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• Man with his burning soul Has but an hour of breath To build a ship of Truth In which his soul may sail- Sail on the sea of death. For death takes toll Of beauty, courage, youth, Of all but Truth.

  John Masefield

  Truth, Men, Sea

  John Masefield (1946). “Poems”

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• After Blood Simple, everybody thought I was from Texas. After Mississippi Burning, everybody thought I was from Mississippi and uneducated. After Fargo, everybody's going to think I'm from Minnesota, pregnant, and have blonde hair. I don't think you can ever completely transform yourself on film, but if you do your job well, you can make people believe that you're the character you're trying to be.

  Frances McDormand

  Jobs, Believe, Character

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• You know, that's what I've regretted the most, that joy. Of course, later there were times when I felt happy, but happiness is to joy what an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy, on the other hand, has no object. It seizes you for no apparent reason; it's like the sun- its burning is fueled by its own heart.

  Susanna Tamaro

  Heart, Light, Hands

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• Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Humorous, Old Glory

  P.J. O'Rourke (2012). “Holidays in Hell”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, People

  Clive James (2013). “The Complete Unreliable Memoirs”, p.292, Pan Macmillan

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• [Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influenced me nearly so much as these two. I copied out from Humboldt long passages about Teneriffe and read them aloud on one of [my walking excursions].

  Charles Darwin

  Book, Humble, Science

  Charles Darwin (1902). “Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters”, p.46, Library of Alexandria

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• And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying American dollar bills as has ever been devised by man.

  Dana Rohrabacher

  Moon, Men, Fire

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• I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.

  Dylan McDermott

  Running, Mean, Thinking

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• I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.

  Vincent Cassel

  Thinking, Desire, Direct

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• Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

  Tom DeLonge

  People, Records, Selling

  "Angels & Airwaves' Revolution Has Begun — Just Wait 29 Years, Tom Delonge Insists" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. September 18, 2007.

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• I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

  Warwick Davis

  Hate, Shirts, Ends

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• I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.

  Klaus Fuchs

  Morning, Home, Organization

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• When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

  Jennifer Granholm

  School, Impact, Law

  "Women: We Want You on the Political Battlefield" by Gov. Jennifer Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Fire, Tables

  Song: Eleutheria

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• Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

  Bob Dylan

  Poetry, Soul, Coal

  Bob Dylan (2013). “Lyrics:1962-2012”, p.480, Simon and Schuster

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• Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same.

  Jim Croce

  Memories, Bridges, People

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• I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.

  Bob Dylan

  Religious, Heart, Eden

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• The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

  Larry Gelbart

  Nature, Amazon, Stills

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• Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Romantic, Love You, Book

  Song: Longer, Album: Phoenix

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• I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sex, Heart, Two

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• What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.

  Nong ?uc Manh

  Party, Thinking, People

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• A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Desire, Action, Consciousness

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• 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!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Divorce, Fire, House

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