Burning Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Running, People, House

  "Aleksandar Hemon: A personal history of Sarajevo". Interview with John Freeman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2013.

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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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• When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.

  Elvis Presley

  Romantic, Heart, Kissing

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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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• After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.

  Jessica Szohr

  Hungry, Calories, Gym

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

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• If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

  Thom Yorke

  People, Darkness, Records

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• For most persons, the mystical kundalini energy is easier to initially perceive, unless you're extremely sensitive. It's more of a rush, a flash. There's an electric quality to it, a burning heat.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Quality, Energy

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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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• I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out.

  Criss Jami

  Fear, Fire, People

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.57, Criss Jami

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• I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

  Taylor Lautner

  Sweat, Two, Weight

  Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 6, 2009.

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• Death and Light are everywhere, always, and they begin, end, strive, attend, into and upon the Dream of the Nameless that is the world, burning words within Samsara, perhaps to create a thing of beauty.

  Roger Zelazny

  Dream, Light, World

  "Lord of Light". Book by Roger Zelazny, 1967.

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• Isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.

  Roland Barthes

  Two, Desire, Absent

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• For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous.

  Geri Halliwell

  Feminism, Bras, Lesbianism

  "Girl power comes of age" by Joanna Moorhead, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Thoughts are like burning stars, and ideas, they flood, they stretch the universe.

  Criss Jami

  Stars, Ideas, Flood

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.72, Criss Jami

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• Imagine your shadow burning off the page / As the dear world and the dead word disengage

  Don Paterson

  Shadow, World, Pages

  Don Paterson, Charles Simic (2004). “New British poetry”, Graywolf Pr

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• A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

  Jack Kerouac

  Passion, Heart, Men

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

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• As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular “hook” upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

  Tim Wise

  Hook, Release, Particular

  "Pardon You: Racism, Reparations and the Politics of Blame (as Explained by Henry Louis Gates Jr.)" by Tim Wise, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

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• People were hysterical about Communism the way people today are hysterical about flag burning. I'm really against these people who try to show that they're great patriots, because they're not thinking, they're just being hysterical.

  Julia Child

  Thinking, People, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have always tried to be obedient regarding important matters like not being scalded to death by burning oil, but when public opinion takes a route far from one's inner conviction, one cannot value disobedience too highly.

  Barbara Dana

  Oil, Important, Public Opinion

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• Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

  Mira Bartok

  Memories, Wings, Brain

  Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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