Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir.

I was in a state of witless shock, as though flames had suddenly enwrapped and paralyzed me so that for a moment I had no mind, no memory.

I looked in the rear-view mirror and saw flames from the back of my truck,

Benjamin Disraeli

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Robert Lopez

My god, I wanted to go in there and smash that window and try and see if I could pull her out. But the flames were too high. It's gone.

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

Archibald MacLeish

You burned the city of London in our houses and we felt the flames.

Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Christine Feehan

She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

Alfred North Whitehead

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

Alcee Hastings

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

Adolf Hitler

Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.

Alexander Pushkin

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Those flames are sky-high. This is really scary.

Cormac McCarthy

The martyr who longs for the flames can be no right candidate for them.

Clifford Stoll

It's a great medium for trivia and hobbies, but not the place for reasoned, reflective judgment. Suprisingly often, discussions degenerate into acrimony, insults and flames.

We landed, the plane started skidding, and then flames. Flames. I remember flames and flames.

Dante Alighieri

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

Dante Alighieri

If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

Dante Alighieri

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Dante Alighieri

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

Dante Alighieri

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

Dante Alighieri

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Dante Alighieri

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Billy Graham

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

Douglas Horton

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

David Limbaugh

It's truly hard to understand how liberal politicians, activists and journalists so consistently escape accountability for stoking the flames of racial disharmony while purporting to dampen them and for dividing our society along racial, gender, and economic lines while claiming to unite us.

Alfred Doblin

I read like the flame reads the wood.

Andre Gide

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

Alton Brown

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

Ann Aguirre

Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.