Burn Quotes

We're the guys who, if someone says you really shouldn't do an episode making fun of Scientologists, we say, 'Whatever.' Someone says, 'They might come try to burn your house down,' we say, 'We'll just get another one.'

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.

A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.

So remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven't been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Rule of thumb: Eat for what you're going to be doing, and not for what you have done. Don't take in more than you're willing to burn off.

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.

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.

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

I want to hold a CD I didn't burn. I hate burnt CDs.

We say that anytime budgets are balanced and an ample savings account has been set aside, government should just stop collecting taxes. Better to leave that money in the pockets of those who earned it, than to let it burn a hole, as it always does, in the pockets of government.

We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powder dry, because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future.

Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.

If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

Burn not thy fingers to snuff another man's candle.

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan - it's simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

I have something to say: it's better to burn out, than to fade away.