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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• All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

  Ellen Key

  Charity, Mouths, Incense

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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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• Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.

  Sanai

  Knowledge, Knowing, Serenity

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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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• The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.

  Nikola Tesla

  Mean, Men, Air

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Wireless Tesla”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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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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• We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Friendship, Crazy, Blue

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• You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Dream, Giving

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.

  Gavin Lyall

  Morning, Writing, Printed Word

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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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• I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.

  Alice Cooper

  Baby, Evil, Cry

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• All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and interesting. But everything. All of creation.

  Rob Brezsny

  Beautiful, Nature, People

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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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