Burned Quotes - Page 5

• Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it ever burned before? Is my baby flame retardant?'

  Al Gore

  Baby, Fire, Flames

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• Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the creep who burned you, because nothing is happening...and then ZANG!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Waiting, Firsts, Loathing

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Writing, Grandmother, White

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was a child and they burned me out of my home, I was frightened and I ran away. Eventually I ran far away. It was to a place called France. Many of you have been there, and many have not. But I must tell you, ladies and gentlemen, in that country I never feared. It was like a fairyland place.

  Josephine Baker

  Country, Children, Home

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• Rock 'n roll smells phony and false. It is sung, played and written for the most part by cretinous goons and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration and sly, lewd, in plain fact, dirty lyrics ... manages to be the martial music of every side-burned delinquent on the face of the earth.

  Frank Sinatra

  Dirty, Mean, Rocks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are seasons of our lives when nothing seems to be happening, when no smoke betrays a burned town or homestead and few tears are shed for the newly dead. I have learned not to trust those times, because if the world is at peace then it means someone is planning war.

  Bernard Cornwell

  War, Mean, Tears

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• Then my life crashed and burned down: trials, men, drama, no self-love, no identity. A little identity, but not a lot of love for myself, my life.

  Mary J. Blige

  Drama, Men, Self

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• I burned the candle at both ends and it often gave a lovely light.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Light, Lovely, Ends

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• People don't realize that doing a horror movie is hard work. You're out there all day screaming your lungs out, breathing in toxic make-up fumes, rolling around in the dirt, getting your eyebrows burned off - it's not like doing a sitcom.

  Clint Howard

  Hard Work, Breathing, Eyebrows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

  LeBron James

  Mistake, Athlete, Kids

  "LeBron James leaves Miami Heat to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2014.

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• The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

  Ayya Khema

  Hands, Trying, Hot

  Geshe Tashi Tsering, Ayya Khema (2010). “Being Nobody, Going Nowhere: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought:”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Learning the notes on the fretboard is key to any guitarist's development on the instrument, and [Guitar] Trainer HD is a neat way to get that info burned into your brain without having to carry a guitar with you everywhere you go. Pretty cool!

  Bryan Beller

  Keys, Guitar, Brain

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• Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.

  Gia Carangi

  Pain, Mistake, Life And Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Eight days the light continued on its own: A miracle, they say, but not more so Than ordinary lives of flesh and bone, Consuming wicks burned ashen long ago.

  Nick Gordon

  Eight, Light, Long Ago

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• The patients often try to starve themselves, to hang themselves, to cut their arteries; they beg that they may be burned, buried alive, driven out into the woods and there allowed to die. One of my patients struck his neck so often on the edge of a chisel fixed on the ground that all the soft parts were cut through to the vertebrae.

  Emil Kraepelin

  Cutting, Bipolar, Trying

  Emil Kraepelin (2002). “Lifetime Editions of Kraepelin in English: Manic-depressive insanity and paranoia”, Thoemmes Pr

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• He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope.

  Robert Frost

  Fire, House, Vision

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.314, Harvard University Press

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• where ther is drsire there is gonig to be a flame where there is a flame someones bound to burned just because it bruns doesn't mean your going to die you gotta get up and try, try, try

  Pink

  Mean, Flames, Trying

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• The White Mansion isn't boring, lass. Never boring. It's the grand demesne the Unseelie King built for his concubine. It's a living, breathing love story, testament to the brightest passion that ever burned between our races. You can follow the scenes through if you've time enough and are willing to risk getting lost for a few centuries.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Kings, Passion, Race

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Sep 12, 2013

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• It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Emotional, Fire

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• No matter what happens, I'll always come back to you." "Promise?" I asked in a shaky voice. Logan's eyes burned with icy determination. "Promise.

  Jennifer Estep

  Determination, Eye, Voice

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Crimson Frost”, p.173, Kensington Books

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• The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

  Jim Butcher

  Lasts, Kill Me, Last Time

  Jim Butcher (2011). “Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.444, Penguin

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• If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

  Jim Butcher

  Nice, Next Day, Track

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• I wanted something that I could look back on and say, yes, you were fighting too, you burned to be alive, and whatever failure or accident of nature caused you to be killed could be explained by something other than the fact that I'd missed your giving up.

  Kevin Powers

  Giving Up, Fighting, Looks

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• When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Two, Solitude

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Sputnik Sweetheart”, p.129, Random House

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• Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Fall, Play, Phoenix

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

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