Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

Bryce Courtenay

I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed.

Chris Colfer

A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.

Charles Baudelaire

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.

William Shakespeare

One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

Black Elk

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.

Bob Uecker

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

C. S. Lewis

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

We stopped the flames just before they got to the house.

Jose Ortiz

When we cam in, it was a flame and there were kids still screaming. They were throwing kids down the balcony.

It went through the inside of the house. It's pretty extreme. The flames went pretty much everywhere.

Gene Chizik

They are going to move the ball, and they are going to hit a big play on you here and there. Everything at that point comes down to how you respond. You can't let the flames become fires.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

Irving Layton

Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.

Irving Stone

Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?

Jack Kerouac

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

Isaac Watts

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.

Tyrus Thomas

They used to be a powerhouse program. I know they have 11 national championships. They lost their flame for a little bit, but now it's back burning. We've got to be ready to play because they're going to try to put their program back where it's supposed to be.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today.

Nicole Kidman

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

Rajneesh

Once your awareness becomes a flame, it burns up the whole slavery that the mind has created.

Theodore Roosevelt

The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

Margaret Fuller

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

The flames were just horrific. They were huge, especially it being so dark.

The flame of knowledge enkindled in the mind itself can make a person scholarly.

Henry George

Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see.

James Joyce

Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

No one wanted to spontaneously combust into flames, especially not in traffic.’ – Sundown

Nicolas Chamfort

Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Monarch of earth, I shall confess my secret craft: I've always fought to purify wild flame to light, and kindle whatever light I found to burst in flame.

Nikola Tesla

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

David Taras

The judgement of the party is clear. He can go down in flames kicking and screaming or go down with dignity.

Then all of the sudden it was just flames shooting out from underneath the hood.