Flame Quotes

• When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Guitar
  • Flame
  • Adrenaline

• 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.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Fire
  • Flame
  • Civilisation

• Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

  

  August Strindberg
  • Consumers
  • Flame
  • Peak

• I sang the first green leaf upon the bough, the tiny kindling flame of emerald fire, the stir amid the roots of reeds, and how the sap will flush the briar

  

  Clinton Scollard
  • Leaf
  • Reeds
  • Briar

• When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • Character
  • Soul
  • Inspiration

• Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name?

  

  Helen Hunt
  • Passion
  • Flame
  • Blossom

• Yeah, the way you’re waiting on me to want you is like waiting for a flame to catch fire.

  

  Carly Pearce
  • Want
  • Way
  • Waiting

• Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.

  

  Homer
  • Life
  • Land
  • Mortals

• What keeps my flame burning is, first, I'm ornery and persistent. I don't like giving up on things and I believe in my band and I just happen to have the sort of personality that really likes to see things to the bitter end. The second reason is the incredible people I've been fortunate to meet as a result of pursuing this insane, money-hemorrhaging enterprise. Literally every time I release a well-reviewed, poor-selling record, the net result is that I end up meeting more kind, like-minded, creative and brilliant people. That's really all the reward I need.

  

  Eddie Pepitone
  • Reason
  • I Believe
  • Fortunate

• But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Love
  • Night
  • Flame

• Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Talent
  • Genius
  • Flame

• Do you hear the people sing Lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people Who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth There is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end And the sun will rise.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Music
  • Flame
  • Valley

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

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Love
  • Virtue
  • Kindled

• The sun flickers. Like a flame hit by a sudden gust of wind. Like the lights of a bomb shelter during an air raid. Even the sun flickers. That’s what she kept telling herself. A gust, a bomb, a small explosion. Then the disruption passed—everything calm again. Everything returning to normalcy. Except that she felt herself trembling. Except she knew that this was the beginning. It was her body that had flickered.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Sun
  • Wind
  • Lights

• The longing of your breast is to be a living flame, ignited with the exhilaration of beholding His beauty, worshiping Him with uninhibited abandon, and deployed into the world with self-controlled, calculated zeal that does not love its own life even unto death.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • Love
  • Death
  • Beauty

• She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame.

  

  Anna McPartlin
  • Souls
  • Flame
  • Moth

• Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Night
  • Streets
  • Fled

• Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • For Her

• The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Journey
  • Flame
  • Drives

• God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • God
  • Smoke
  • Composes

• Feelings of guilt will never motivate anyone to spend more time with God; in actuality, they will discourage you and make you feel like a failure. Guilt has the potential to totally snuff out whatever small flame there presently might be.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • God
  • Failure
  • Guilt

• The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

  

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
  • Sunset
  • Flame
  • Brush

• In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Mouth
  • Roof
  • Feats

• But this was true only for the duration of one of these seemingly durationless periods; figure and ground could be reversed, and when one was in the midst of some new intensity, kiss or concussion, one was suddenly composed exclusively of such moments, burning always with this hard, gemlike flame.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Kiss
  • Burning
  • Duration

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