Quotes about flames
flames soul evolution
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul Andrei Tarkovsky
flames crafts metamorphosis
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. Annie Proulx
flames fire frustrated
I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does? Amy Grant
flames world tiny
One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world. Anne Rice
flames fire heat
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. Andy Goldsworthy
flames light bombs
Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear. Andrew Motion
flames joy association
Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated. Alphonse de Lamartine
flames names fire
Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame. Bob Dylan
flames never-settle settling
Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower. Bruce Feirstein
flames interesting stories
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames. Brian P. Cleary
flames fire needs
Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade. Bono
flames perspective sun
All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out. Antonio Porchia
flames lips love-passion
Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame. Anya Seton
flames people challenges
Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges. Eckhart Tolle
flames mind sun
Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind
flames symphony light
A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame. Edward R. Murrow
flames fire genius
Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. Bernard Williams
flames order wind
The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will be extinguished by stormy winds; warm so as not to benumb fragile buds... empty of itself, in order that extraneous life may have room in it; finally, mistress of itself and also of its body, so that the entire person is readily at the disposal of every call. Edith Stein
flames ashes intensity
Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash. Edmund White
flames life-and-death effort
When you consider something like death, after which (there being no news flash to the contrary) we may well go out like a candle flame, then it probably doesn't matter if we try too hard, are awkward sometimes, care for one another too deeply, are excessively curious about nature, are too open to experience, enjoy a nonstop expense of the senses in an effort to know life intimately and lovingly. Diane Ackerman
flames fire hot
It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot! Demetri Martin
flames choices vision
In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself. Brenda Ueland
flames cities yesterday
Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City. Jane D. Hull
flames giving feelings
Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they dont sing to you. Ive got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this. Antony Starr
flames laughing actors
I call for actors burning at the stakes, laughing at the flames. Antonin Artaud
flames artistic victim
And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.
flames radio london
Whatever happens, the flame of the French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished. Tomorrow, as today, I will speak on Radio London. Charles de Gaulle
flames body events
A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool. Alan Watts
flames long independence
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. Bryce Courtenay
flames together may
A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other. Chris Colfer
flames blood skins
...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. Charles Baudelaire
flames lust sin
One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke. William Shakespeare
flames color rainbow
And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. Black Elk