Burst Quotes

502 Burst quotes by 414 unique authors

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. — Tom Stoppard
It was only when the giant got halfway down the incline that he suddenly, happily, burst into flame and continued his trip saying, "NO SURVIVORS,… — William Goldman
May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month. The days are long and humid. The river shrinks and black crows gorge on bright mangoes in… — Arundhati Roy
Carrie doesn't seem to talk about anything with sharp edges. Maybe she's afraid they might poke her and then she'd burst. — Lisa McMann
It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we… — Sharon Creech
And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart. — Jeffrey Eugenides
I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's… — C.S. Lewis
Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it?… — Francesca Lia Block
The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames. — Virginia Woolf
We're, ah, taking a break to evaluate things, and, um, reexamine our relationship, so I stuffed him in a closet!" I burst out in shame.… — Jeaniene Frost
I've seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I've never grown tired of it. Oh, the… — Lynn Austin
What she had realised was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst. — Steig Larsson
I was full of a hot, powerful sadness and would have loved to burst into the comfort of tears, but tried hard not to, remembering… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Now I felt the long-forgotten urgency of lovemaking, when it seems one's human selves leave, to be replaced by hungry beasts bolting their food. Gone… — Margaret George
The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear… — Charles Dickens
I see evil when I look in my shaving mirror. It is, philosophically, present everywhere in the universe in order, apparently, to highlight the existence… — Terry Pratchett
Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and… — Patricia McCormick
So it's true. You can walk in sunlight. I thought perhaps it might have worn off." "If I feel the urge to burst into flames,… — Cassandra Clare
The young writer should learn to spot them: words that at first glance seem freighted with delicious meaning, but that soon burst in the air,… — Elwyn Brooks White
Then after a long time Annie wasn’t a little girl anymore. She was a big girl and I was so much in love with her… — Robert Penn Warren
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that… — Suzanne Collins
Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much… — E. Lockhart

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414 authors contributed a total of 502 Burst Quotes, led by these top contributors: