Bursts Quotes
129 quotes by 119 authors
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The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not…
— Keith Olbermann
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I love this word decadence, all shimmering in purple and gold. It suggests the subtle thoughts of ultimate civilization, a high literary culture, a soul…
— Paul Verlaine
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My hand does the work and I dont have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. Its like a…
— Edna O'Brien
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And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act…
— Mary Caroline Richards
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Look at it this way: There are many here among us for whom the life force is best represented by the livid twitching of one…
— Lester Bangs
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I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest
— Shannon Miller
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The fifties are a peaceful time, a quiet sleeping time between two noisy bursts of years, a blue and white time filled with sweet yellow…
— David Gerrold
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Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In almost all cases, I’m opposed to setting aside time for refactoring. In my view refactoring is not an activity you set aside time to…
— Martin Fowler
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Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Out of the new arrivals in our lives--the odd word stumbled upon in a difficult text, the handsome black stranger who bursts in one night…
— Nancy Mairs
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The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into…
— Eric Hoffer
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Every time you give a parent a sense of success or of empowerment, you're offering it to the baby indirectly. Because every time a parent…
— T. Berry Brazelton
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Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is…
— Clarence Day
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Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a…
— Samuel Johnson
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The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm…
— Adam Gopnik
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It is not possible to be original by trying to be original - those who attempt this in the arts will be merely avant-garde. Originality…
— Michael Foley
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The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When truth is buried, it grows. It chokes. It gathers such an explosive force that on the day it bursts out, it blows up everything…
— Emile Zola
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Solar bursts typically last from half a minute to a couple of minutes and often sound like a rapid hissing noise followed by a gradual…
— Honor Harger
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