Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.'

What continues now is to keep the torch burning and not let the world ever forget what a pedophile is.

There's nothing like a big room with a wood fire burning in it. The warmth and the cheeriness of it.

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 interesting thing for me is let's see if we can do it again. That fire is burning even hotter.

I'm looking at something on my wall. It says jogging 6 miles an hour at 150 pounds is 11.6 calories a minute, and mowing grass is 4.1 calories per minute. When I'm jogging, am I really expending 11.6 calories? I don't know that for sure, but I certainly know I'm burning more calories jogging than mowing the lawn.

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 really reflects misplaced priorities when you can go to jail for a longer time for burning a photograph of someone's dog than for burning a dog. The laws just need to catch up with society's values.

I made a decision today to release my champion desire burning inside of my heart.

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

It was loud, hostile and somewhat threatening. There were burning tires, loud firecrackers and obscene chants. They weren't about to move and the police weren't about to move them, so we were stuck.

Sam Endicott

There may be some burning animals, ... We'll see what happens.

The remaining crews will now be conducting mop up operations and making sure that there are no burning embers or hot spots.

They're burning money. They can last a lot longer.

John Caudwell

In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success is how much you are worth.

Instead of generating cash, they're burning cash. We are not jumping into Internet stocks at these valuations. I think the Internet sector is going to continue to sink.

If you see a burning couch, don't pour gasoline on it,

Jessica Szohr

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

If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

Sugar Leonard

I figure it's like something that has to be, before Marvin and me can be content with ourselves. There is a burning desire in me now.

J. R. Celski

I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

I don't see what they gain by burning down a log building. They've got to cut down more logs to rebuild it,

Jack Herer

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

Honest people don't tell you they're honest. Cool people don't say that they're cool. We should all be wondering why these guys feel a burning need to tell us how good they are.

I had a burning desire to work with young men, and I have an even greater desire to see young ladies in the community succeed in the community and in life.

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

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.

Jack Kelley

It took the place burning down and being rebuilt to have his dreams come to life.

It took plenty of time and burning the midnight oil and a lot of telephone calling to get everyone together,

They were threatened with the burning of their houses.

It's likely to continue burning for some days, if not weeks.