Famous Burns Quotes

538 Burns quotes by 448 unique authors

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark. — John Irving
To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The light of truth burns without a flicker in the depths of a house that is shaken with storms of passion and fear. — Thomas Merton
I've learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me. There is a certain anger: it reaches such intensity that… — Sidney Poitier
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who… — Michelangelo
Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too. — Stephen King
I prefer someone who burns the flag and then wraps themselves up in the Constitution over someone who burns the Constitution and then wraps themselves… — Molly Ivins
Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost. — A. S. Byatt
If it wasn’t for the mist we could see your home across the bay," said Gatsby. "You always have a green light that burns at… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I burn the way money burns. — Anne Sexton
Our conversations are never easy, but as I-we-get older, we are finding that our conversations must bespoken. A need burns inside us to share with… — Douglas Coupland
The Moth don't care when he sees The Flame. He might get burned, but he's in the game. And once he's in, he can't go… — Aimee Mann
Your reason and your passion are your rudder and sails of your seafaring soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can… — Khalil Gibran
What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake. The inner voice… — Charles Baxter
The primary urge that motivates and engenders writing...is the writer's desire to invent and tell a story, and to know himself. But the more I… — David Grossman
laugh a lot. It burns a lot of calories. — Jessica Simpson
And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of… — Barack Obama
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
For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past… — Marya Hornbacher
Some stories, she’d say, the more you tell them, the faster you use them up. Those kind, the drama burns off, and every version, they… — Chuck Palahniuk
If there was a god, he wouldn't let a guy walk right up and shoot you in the face now would he? That's right, now… — Henry Rollins
There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun… — Shel Silverstein
February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring.… — Boris Pasternak
Vengeance burns,Torak." said Fin-Kedinn as the river bore him away. "It burns your heart. It makes the pain worse. Dont let that happen to you. — Michelle Paver
Some things you forget. Other things you never do. But it's not. Places, places are still there. If a house burns down, it's gone, but… — Toni Morrison

Who Wrote These Burns Quotes

448 authors contributed a total of 538 Burns Quotes, led by these top contributors: