Burning Quotes

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
Don Henley

Best, Light, Sometimes

There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.
Alison Lurie

War, Sweet, Hot

On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, 'What God do you pray to?' What beliefs do you hold?'
Michael Bloomberg

God, Lives, Alive

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.
Katherine Heigl

Women, Power, Bras

I also started writing songs because I had this burning activity in my heart and had to express myself.
Annie Lennox

Heart, Writing, Started

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
George MacDonald

Keep, Oil, Lamp

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.
Kevin Costner

Love, Fear, Eyes

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave.
Elizabeth Edwards

Brave, Run, Building

Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering.
George H. W. Bush

Time, Through, Said

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
Rod Stewart

Succeed, Desire, Chest

It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.
Mike Davidson

Nice, End, Book

Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
Thomas Frank

True, Else, Whatever

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.
William Hague

Building, Countries, Euro

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
Elizabeth Bowen

Best, She, Effort

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene.
James Wolcott

Unique, Appreciate, Scene

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.
Gavin DeGraw

Slow, Partying, Amount

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.
Howard Cosell

Gentleman, Ladies, Bronx

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.
will.i.am

Music, Place, Started

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.
Tracey Ullman

Life, Ambition, Plan

When I was 20, 21 years old, I had just got married. Put yourself in my wife's shoes. All of these fans all across the world would have Donny Osmond burning - record-burning parties. They would put my albums and burn them.
Donny Osmond

Yourself, Wife, Old

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'
Lev Grossman

Read, Compete, Drowned

If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
Thom Yorke

History, Before, Start

Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
Vanessa Paradis

Eyes, Pretty, Creative

By burning fossil fuels, we are already dumping 30 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which has a profound effect on the climate. So, like it or not, we're already messing with a system we don't understand.
Jeff Goodell

Understand, Year, System

I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Best, Desire, Capable

In 1945, there were more people killed, more buildings destroyed, more high explosives set off, more fires burning than before or since.
Stephen Ambrose

Before, Off, High

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
George William Curtis

Wisdom, Books, Lamps

Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.
Judi Dench

Strange, Desire, Bit

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'
Geraldine Brooks

Mind, Book, Sometimes

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.
Geraldine Brooks

Children, Done, Young

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