Famous Quotes & Sayings

You should be burning by now. If you're not, I don't know what's wrong with you.

Your powerful radiance is burning the entire universe, and filling it with splendor, O Krishna.

You're burning a fuel to create a fuel. It doesn't seem very efficient to use what is a valuable energy source to turn rock into oil.

Mother Teresa

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

Sylvia Plath

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

David Roberts

During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

As if a fire is burning him, as if the forest-fire burns in various directions, this jealousy of his do thou quench, as a fire (is quenched) with water!

Bruce Springsteen

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary/Out by the gas fires of the refinery/I'm 10 years burning down the road/Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go,

We are studying the weather hard every day. If this weather model continues, it may become prudent for us to reconsider whether to have a burning ban.

We know that it's a large warehouse with propane tanks and multiple pallets. We're talking about the pallets that you see in the warehouse stores that are three stories high of wooden pallets that are burning right now. There are also plumbing supplies, roofing supplies, and other multiple things inside this warehouse that are fully involved.

Marvin Hagler

Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.

There is some evidence that morning exercise promotes more fat burning than other times of the day, but the difference is so small that it really wouldn't matter, ... And if you're going to exercise inconsistently in the morning, then it's not worth it at all.

Lev Grossman

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.'

James Wolcott

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.

The worst thing right now is the weather. Every time we try to have something, there is a storm. How can you go to Phoenix and have a storm? Usually, you have to take tents to try and keep from burning up.

What's happening to our world? Imagine the year 2000 and our ozone layer has vanished... Our planet has a fever and she is burning up - what will you do?

The Secret Service came to me and thought I was burning the White House.

The smell of burning rubber is always great in the air.

The siding of the cabin was metal and . . . they would light the stick on fire and use the blackened portion of it to write their names with. And, as they were doing that, burning embers would fall onto the grassy area. That's how we feel the fire started.

Roy Harper

I've listened to a lot of music, and I reckon that my records are definitely better, more stimulating, and more carefully constructed than any others. I've studied the melodies and lyrical forms of many artists, but no-one else quite seems to sustain the burning intensity of my own work.

Warren Buffett

Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's.

Tim Wise

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.

Jerry Pournelle

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

George Eliot

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

Jean Cocteau

I am burning myself up and will always do so.

Federico Garcia Lorca

The wounds were burning like suns at five in the afternoon, and the crowd broke the windows At five in the afternoon. Ah, that fatal five in the afternoon! It was five by all the clocks! It was five in the shade of the afternoon!

I'm kind of glad after what happened that we have a mid-week game. I think if you're a competitor, you have a burning desire to jump right back out and compete again.

It was supposed to be some kind of Jesus burning party. I guess they were going to burn everything up.

Everybody's burning (trash), and all this stuff just stays in the air.

Damming, drilling, burning -- all of these things have impacts and they have them first and worst on our nation's rivers.

Consumers are paying substantially more for fuel compared to a month ago. Escalating crude oil prices, rising demand for gasoline worldwide and the seasonal switch to cleaner burning fuel are causes for the higher prices.

It will be a cross-sports forum to look at whether a girl under 18 can handle tour life, ... We want our players to be out here for anything from 10 to 25 years. We don't want them burning white hot for a year or two and then flaming out.

It is that smell of burning flesh and rubber that I just love. You can just tell rugby is being played.