Burst Quotes

502 Burst quotes by 414 unique authors

There's just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us… — Michael Cunningham
Great Power, capable of everything and only temporarily handicapped by economic difficulties. We are not a great power and never will be again. We are… — Henry Tizard
LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same… — Terence McKenna
Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,… — Ernest Hemingway
I've only suffered writer's block badly once, and that was during the writing of Chamber of Secrets. I had my first burst of publicity about… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Nothing can burst your fatherly bubble faster than hearing your daughter come home from a date and saying: 'Some nights I don't know why I… — David Henry
I've always believed that a speculative bubble need not lead to a recession, as long as interest rates are cut quickly enough to stimulate alternative… — Paul Krugman
It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that… — Thomas A. Edison
During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware that I have the power… — Ross Douthat
Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the… — Peter Damian
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we… — Mahatma Gandhi
But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up at the sky and see… — Thomas Merton
If you want to take your mission in life to the next level, if you're stuck and you don't know how to rise, don't look… — Bruce Jenner
Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the buildings… — William L. Shirer
But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit. — George Orwell
Sometimes the entire thing comes out in one burst. Sometimes you hack away at a thing for years before you get something that satisfies you. — David Crosby
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on my steady descent… — Al Alvarez
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as… — Brian Froud
And my daughter said, 'Why are you yelling at us?' and I said, 'I'm trying to discipline you!' And then she looked up at me… — Stephen Colbert
Did you know that the word person comes from the Latin word persona, which means mask? So maybe being human means we invite spectators to… — John Cusack
I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness.… — Josh Lucas
And I am the kind of person that feels so much that if I didn’t have acting (and music), I would burst from all of… — Gloria Reuben
Boarding school in Tring was a bit of a bubble that burst when I went to Hackney to go to drama school. — Lily James
Love is considered the most basic emotion that human awareness can feel; therefore, it is the closest to the source of life. The burst of… — Deepak Chopra
We went into a recession in 2008 because of gasoline prices. The bubble burst in housing because people couldn’t pay their mortgages because of $4… — Rick Santorum

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