Burns Quotes

538 Burns quotes by 448 unique authors

Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be.… — Robert Fulghum
In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter… — N.D. Wilson
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that rise… — Edward Thomas
Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness. — Suzanne Collins
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold no lands, father no children.… — George R. R. Martin
Love and hate hold hands always so it made natural sense that they'd get confused by upset married folk in the wee hours once in… — Daniel Woodrell
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. — Irving Stone
Fire isn’t good or bad. It just burns. — Karen Marie Moning
The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins. It always wins because it is everywhere. It is in the wood that… — Matthew Woodring Stover
Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns — Matt Groening
In the night, I wish to speak with the angel to find out if she recognizes my eyes, if she will ask me: do you… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly. — Leonard Cohen
I’ve never been jealous before I met you, it burns, luv. Like silver through my veins. Some nights, watching you with other men on your… — Jeaniene Frost
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way. — Mark Nepo
I am singing now while Rome burns. — Richard Siken
One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns holes in your skin with his mouth. And… — Maureen Medved
L.A. burns, and so many other cities smolder, waiting for the hose that will flood gasoline over the coals, and we listen to politicians who… — Dennis Lehane
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short… — Charlotte Bronte
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.--Robert Burns — Robert Burns
If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away — Sarah Addison Allen
All her knowledge is gone now. Everything she ever learned, or heard, or saw. Her particular way of looking at Hamlet or daisies or thinking… — Jandy Nelson
I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark. A flickering candle… — Pittacus Lore
We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't… — Jonathan Evison
Each time someone dies, a library burns. — Jandy Nelson
Karkaroff intends to flee if the Mark burns." "Does he?" said Dumbledore softly, as Fleur Delacour and Roger Davies came giggling in from the grounds.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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