Burning Quotes

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
Jack Herer

Old, Result, Effect

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
Jennifer M. Granholm

School, Important, Law

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.
Rupert Grint

Time, Great, Become

Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.
Lee Haney

Water, Fat, Critical

I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.
Taylor Lautner

Two, Put, Losing

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
Caleb Cushing

Down, Before, Off

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

Past, Reason, Tell

The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity.
Nicholas D. Kristof

War, Children, Bands

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

Children, Him, Start

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.
George Meredith

Love, Jealousy, Bed

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.
Donella Meadows

Everyone, Far, Republican

I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
Vincent Cassel

Else, Rather, Desire

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.
Olusegun Obasanjo

True, Political, Democracy

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

Desire, Plan, Actor

On a per capita basis, Britain is responsible for more of the carbon dioxide now in the atmosphere than any other nation on Earth because it has been burning it from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
James Hansen

Revolution, Nation, Earth

What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile.
James Hansen

End, Energy, Poor

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.
James Hansen

Long, Energy, Keep

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

Death, Human, Find

I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.
Dylan McDermott

Mean, Rather, Actor

The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
Jerome Lawrence

Mind, Writing, Soul

I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.
Warwick Davis

Hate, End, Find

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

Write, Desire, Symphony

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

Desire, Particular, Cuddly

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
John Hughes

Change, Everything, Able

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
Michael Berryman

Religion, History, War

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.
Harry Houdini

Small, Another, Alcohol

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.
Harry Houdini

Fake, Eating, Entirely

You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end.
Karel Capek

Age, Great, End

After being in a gym, you're super hungry all the time because you're burning all these calories.
Jessica Szohr

Time, After, Gym

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

Weird, Baby, Guy

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