Burn Quotes
1457 quotes by 1009 authors
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You are a white. The Imperial Wizard. Now, if you don't think this is logic you can burn me on the fiery cross. This is…
— Lenny Bruce
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you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the…
— Charles Bukowski
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Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color.…
— Eduardo Galeano
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One day old Thrashbarg said that Almighty Bob had declared that he, Thrashbarg, was to have first pick of the sandwiches. The villagers asked him…
— Douglas Adams
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Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden…
— Joseph Heller
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
— Virginia Woolf
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And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may…
— Douglas Coupland
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great men burn bridges before they come to them
— E E Cummings
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When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.
— Pablo Neruda
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I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn." Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic…
— Eoin Colfer
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God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly…
— C.S. Lewis
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The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at her with wide…
— Shannon Hale
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...there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children…
— Sherman Alexie
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Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken…
— Alice Hoffman
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Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that…
— Joseph Heller
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Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.
— Thomas Kinkade
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In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to…
— Joanne Harris
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Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Letters are just pieces of paper," I said. "Burn them, and what stays in your heart will stay; keep them, and what vanishes will vanish.
— Haruki Murakami
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