Burning Quotes - Page 9

I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.

I'm screwed up, mixed up, messed around, dive-bombing, crashing and burning.

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

Material loss can be made up through renewed labor, but the moral wrong which has been inflicted upon the conquered peoples, in the peace dictates, leaves a burning scar on the people's conscience.

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

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

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?

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

I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.

God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.

How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.

Great sex is not a pleasant soak in the tub, with the scented candle burning. Great sex is more like a bomb exploding inside your right mind.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

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.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

Your lifeline...oh, the burning stick. Right." Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA!

Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal.