Burnt Quotes
291 quotes by 223 authors
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I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt…
— George Strait
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I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be…
— Robbie Williams
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I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought…
— John Oliver
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Bastian had climbed a dune of purplish-red sand and all around him he saw nothing but hill after hill of every imaginable color. Each hill…
— Michael Ende
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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your…
— Ellen Bass
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When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is…
— Michael Crichton
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She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed…
— Aleister Crowley
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But what Freud showed us… was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in…
— Jacques Lacan
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Often, though, the passivity of the woman's role weighs on me, suffocates me. Rather than wait for his pleasure, I would like to take it,…
— Anais Nin
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A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
— Virginia Woolf
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The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his…
— Virginia Woolf
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One day, on tearing off some old bark, I saw two rare beetles, and seized one in each hand. Then I saw a third and…
— Charles Darwin
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Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.
— Hart Crane
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There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Today he wore a burnt-orange shirt, black pants, and a tie that looked like a street fight at the south end of the color wheel.
— Kathy Reichs
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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
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Thousands of years ago the first man discovered how to make fire. He was probably burnt at the stake he'd taught his brothers to light,…
— Ayn Rand
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The evening light was like honey in the trees When you left me and walked to the end of the street Where the sunset abruptly…
— John Ashbery
Who Wrote These Burnt Quotes
223 authors contributed a total of 291 Burnt Quotes, led by these top contributors: