Burned Quotes
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
Anne Carson -
In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
Barbara Steele
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Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?
Brian Tracy -
I used to be much heavier when I first started out acting and did a lot of crash dieting and a lot of crash exercise - a ton for a month before you burned out. Then I made a decision in my twenties to only do things that I can do for life, so everything's kind of in moderation for me.
Rhea Seehorn -
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Taken up with Hugh and Clark swapping baseball trivia. Clark often detailed yet another financial reversal. On the day he told us his house had burned down, we all, I think, accepted the news as somehow unexciting and inevitable.
John Metcalf -
The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.
Ernest Hemingway -
Night's candles have burned out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountaintops." Hope tinged with melancholy - like life.
William Shakespeare
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If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.
Bam Bam Bigelow -
It was as if she had emitted a pulse of radiation that reached him even where he stood, and it bathed him and it burned him.
Laini Taylor -
She burned too bright for this world.
Emily Bronte -
I thought I knew who you were, but I see now you were a lesson to learn, and all I am to you now is a bridge that’s been burned.
Christina Aguilera -
After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
Shmuel Yosef Agnon -
Gone was the slightest implication of compassion if it had ever existed before. “I have seen young boys burned alive,” he said. “I have seen Iranian and Iraqi boys tearing each other literally with their nails and teeth. It is raging hate against raging hate.
Kanan Makiya
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It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.
William Gibson -
I beg you not to resort to demonstrations, for they have become nothing but burned paper.
Muqtada al Sadr -
“With horror he saw that her hair was already afire as the tarred stake burned about her head. He held her agonized gaze with his fierce black eyes. "I'll love you forever, and beyond," he vowed as he raised both arms and plunged his sword into her heart.
Virginia Henley -
I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.
Sarah Michelle Gellar -
A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.
Rumi
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The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes.
Ernest Hemingway -
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
Erma Bombeck -
I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.
Billy Joel -
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.
Wilfred Burchett