I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
Gustave Moreau

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
A. R. Ammons

I do not see how a people that can find in its conscience any excuse whatever for slowly burning to death a human being, or for tolerating such an act, can be entrusted with the salvation of a race.
James Weldon Johnson

I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
Ben Stiller

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
Cillian Murphy

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
Hugh Grant

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Tanya Tucker

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
Danny Elfman

I don't think having a My Chemical Romance action figure will make a kid start his own band, I like to think it will make him save children from a burning building.
Gerard Way

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.
Christian Slater

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.
Claire Bloom

I saw my hometown burning that day.
Rodney King

I think in a sense this is a house that was built on a bad foundation. And the foundation was the Americans coming here and allowing the sacking, burning and plunder of Baghdad, for whatever reason.
Jon Lee Anderson

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.
Klaus Fuchs

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line.
Robert Kirkman

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

If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.
Mohammad Khatami

If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.
Rick Renzi

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

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa