Burnt Quotes
291 quotes by 223 authors
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I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.
— Ingeborg Bachmann
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All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.
— Mickey Cohen
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Village cricket spread fast through the land. In those days before it became scientific, cricket was the best game in the world to watch, with…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
— Bill Parcells
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I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just…
— Donovan Bailey
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A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.
— Marianne Boruch
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Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed,…
— Unknown Author
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A burnt child dreads the fire.
— Aleister Crowley
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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
— Eric Allin Cornell
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I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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You might find it difficult to see anything but your own sadness, the way smoke can cover a landscape so that all anyone can see…
— Daniel Handler
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
— George Eliot
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The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes.
— William Greider
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I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.
— Jonny Lang
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Burnt child fire dredth.
— John Heywood
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In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing…
— Unknown Author
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It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips…
— H.G. Wells
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O Nanak, the worldly achievements and glory is worthy of being burnt in the fire if it causes one to forget God. Usually these worldly…
— Guru Angad
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To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope…
— Jeremy Brett
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If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a…
— Alberto Juantorena
Who Wrote These Burnt Quotes
223 authors contributed a total of 291 Burnt Quotes, led by these top contributors: