Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edwin Moses

Maybe he could have just been plain tired, burned out. Lane 1 will do that to you.

Now we're in slash and burn time. We think that analysts are going to take down estimates to 5 or 6 percent growth.

Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.

Getting Tony under contract to remain a Diamondback has been on the front burner for several weeks.

For me the challenge is to make sure the shows are good this year and to not burn out,

From my viewpoint, I don't know if it's not a burning issue for the people, or they don't know it's going on. We'd like to have public input and know what they think, but they're just not coming.

Georg Trakl

Frost and smoke. A white shirt of stars burns your worn-out shoulders, and God's vultures tear at your metallic heart.

I don't think we're doing our kids a service anymore. We're starting too young. We're burning them out. We're doing too much too early.

Allen Iverson

I don't want them to take my money, either. That's just like taking it and burning it.

I look for flags. I look for burning smoke. I look for trees wiggling in the wind,

If they would quit burning until it rains, it would help a lot.

Will Steger

If we could cut carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent over the next 20 years we could perhaps prevent this. If we continue burning fossil fuels as we are today in the very near future (the ice shelf) will slip in (the ocean).

Roger Donaldson

I'd made this naive little documentary about the real Burt Munro, very early in my film-making career, and this character always stuck with me. I thought, 'God, what a great subject for a feature film!' And it's a project that I've been keeping on the back burner ever since.

I don't know of a state where it's not on the burner somewhere.

I could see the crosses burning and I could hear all the words they would use, the N-word and the hate words, and I would listen until I got tired of listening, ... Then I would go inside and turn on music to listen to that instead.

I'd be less than truthful if I didn't say that I've been thinking about it because it's important to a lot of people around me -- my coaches, their families and my family. But I really try to put it to the back burner because a lot of responsibilities I have here, and I literally don't have any time to spend on it.

Chris Wallace

My feeling was, if we're going to tell the story about people rioting and burning down embassies, it's part of the story to know what it is that has caused such outrage.

One person sustained facial burns and 30 were displaced by the fire.

One of the simplest is just to burn it as a heating fuel, produce steam for example. It could also be used for stationary power to produce electricity.

Obviously, with the increase in technology, piracy has increased. It is so much easier to burn a DVD or a CD. Because of the growing popularity of our music on the world stage, it is important to protect our musical creativity.

No-one in particular, lots of different people. It is really about people like Jimi Hendrix who had too much too soon and burned out too quickly. Also it is about people such as CS Lewis who travelled to the limits.

Marc Cherry

My dream is to get someone like Carol Burnett on the show.

Dave Obey

We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now.

Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history, when it may be one of the driving forces in history.

Bjork

The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.

Bahman Ghobadi

In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

Edgar Mitchell

We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.

Thomas More

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

We learned from history that terrorism is a cancer. World War Two started with the burning of synagogues and then they burned people.

We're under a burn ban. Everything is so dry. And even if you have just a small fire, everyone has their windows open with the power out. The smoke comes in and you smell up everything,

Blake Shelton

I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.

Brian O'Driscoll

I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.