Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neal Shusterman

Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers.

Jonathan Zittrain

The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

Kellan Lutz

I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.

James Patterson

I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.

Emile M. Cioran

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

Emile M. Cioran

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

Emile M. Cioran

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

Erasmus Darwin

Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

Hermann Hesse

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen. In argument, for example, they will not shout and wave their arms. But I assure you, they are nevertheless burning with subdued fires.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

Kurt Cobain

I'm going to be a superstar musician, kill myself, and go out in a flame of glory. I want to be rich and famous and kill myself like Jimi Hendrix.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We looked at each other until it felt like everything would burst into flames

Jim Morrison

I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

Neal Stephenson

Clearly Mr. Drkh has had a long career of being the weirdest person in any given room, but he's about to go down in flames.

Neal Shusterman

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

John O'Donohue

We cannot fill up our emptiness with objects, possessions or people. We have to go deeper into that emptiness, then we will find beneath nothingness the flame of love to warm us.

John Calvin

Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

Joe King

Ruben V is the keeper of the flame of the San Antonio vibe

Joan of Arc

[Before being burned at the stake for her faith:] Hold the cross high so I may see it through the flames.

Garrison Keillor

A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex.

Francois Mauriac

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

Lewis H. Lapham

It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame.

Lewis Carroll

She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Lewis Carroll

She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.

Karl Rove

I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble.

Karen Maitland

But then, the flames of a fire are not made less painful by the knowledge that others are burning with you.

Josh Young

'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed.

Joshua Homme

Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

Laurell K. Hamilton

He said,'Trust yourself, mon ami. You are not your friend with his so-sad tale. And Anita is not human. Through us she is more than that. Both of us huddle around her humanity like it is the last candle flame in a world of darkness. But by our very love, we make her less human, and more.

Livy

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Louis D. Brandeis

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

Otto Weininger

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

Gustav Mahler

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.