Burst Quotes
502 Burst quotes by 414 unique authors
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Getting older is a struggle. I always feel that just under the surface of acceptance and enjoyment of the ageing process is a terrible hysteria…
— Michael Sheen
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I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was…
— Tom Sizemore
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Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
— Jonathan Swift
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I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.
— Tina Turner
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I'm a born entertainer. When I open the fridge door and the light goes on, I burst into song.
— Robbie Williams
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...A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.
— Ayn Rand
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Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up.”…
— Armistead Maupin
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Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling…
— William James
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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Love is as varied and unpredictable as the rain is: it comes in constant summer drizzles, or sudden, unforseen storms that make rivers burst their…
— Susan Fletcher
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If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then…
— Yann Martel
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Elinor could sit still no longer. She almost ran out of the room, and as soon as the door was closed, burst into tears of…
— Jane Austen
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An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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There is just this for consolation: an hour here or there, when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give…
— Michael Cunningham
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When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping void of space…
— Dave Eggers
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But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness;…
— Truman Capote
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The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will…
— Victor Hugo
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There are random moments - tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at…
— Elizabeth Berg
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Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old…
— Margaret Atwood
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And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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EVERYONE suddenly burst out singing; And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom, Winging wildly across the white Orchards…
— Siegfried Sassoon
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By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual…
— Albert Schweitzer
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She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very…
— Jane Austen
Who Wrote These Burst Quotes
414 authors contributed a total of 502 Burst Quotes, led by these top contributors: