Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

My house is burned and looted. Burned and looted. My whole street. Were (the residents of the houses) all terrorists?

Edwin Moses

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

There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans.

Edgar Allan Poe

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on. (Montresor)

Yotam Ottolenghi

I always preferred my father's pasta the next day, when he'd put it in a hot oven with heaps of extra cheese. It would emerge slightly burned and very crisp on top.

It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we got burned on it.

Eddie Murphy

We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here, ... We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.

Lindy Ruff

You make mistakes and you're going to get burned - and we got burned.

We gave them far too many power plays. They are incredible and have a great power play. You give them that many and you're going to get burned sooner or later.

Khalil Gibran

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

Charlotte Ross

This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million.

Timmy probably didn't get burned at all, ... He probably died from smoke inhalation.

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.

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.

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.

When you look at the mosaic of fires that have burned over the last 20 years, it's probably very similar to what occurred in the 1800s. Not a whole lot of fires occurred in the wilderness from 1929 to 1985.

Scott Skiles

Whenever I've tried it, he's burned us. But it would be on the table.

We just weren't playing together. I think we used too much emotion in an exciting game on Friday and we the next game we just burned out.

Rick Riordan

When I was in college, my parents' house burned down, and took a lot of the possessions I'd grown up with. That's probably one thing that made me realize material stuff is not really that important.

Robert McNamara

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Janet Montgomery

Witches were burned and killed in Scotland and England for centuries before what happened in Salem.

Exxon is saying the last year when we found more oil than we burned was 1987. So, the handwriting is on the wall that we are not finding it.

Most of the material actually burned up. Propylene will burn fairly quickly, without a lot of residue,

Marcia Wallace

When you're going through all of this, the last thing you're thinking of as a patient, and especially as a caregiver, is to give yourself something that nurtures you and something that helps you not to get overwhelmed and burned out. Poetry, silence, walks, back rubs, or swimming, whatever, it's the thing you need most, and it's the thing you have to give yourself.

We played Venue 8 last year, right before it burned down. It was big and a great stage. Now, it's even bigger.

We had mutual friends and we had met through cycling. She kept me going when I got burned out.

We had great mixing heights. We had great pressure gradients. We had great wind direction - and so we burned a lot of acres. Unfortunately, it failed us at the critical moment.

We have to keep it monotone. We don't want to get burned out on Friday.

We do new groups, but we have the same old people, and people get burned out and tired. Look up at the podium, and it's the same people who spoke out when Moshe (Rogers) was killed. If they're the same ones up there 20 years from now, they're going to be running these programs from a walker.

Robert Kiyosaki

One of the reasons so many people get burned in the market is because they start buying as they see prices going up.