Burn Quotes

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

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

I'm shocked at how early everything closes here. But people start earlier. I miss the late nightlife in NYC, but then again I sing and burn so much energy in the show that it's probably good - I get to go home and sleep.

Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

We will definitely not burn the Koran, no. Not today, not ever.

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.

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.

Is it the right thing to burn Qurans? Legally? Can pastor burn Quran tomorrow? People accept legally it is right. But is it the right thing to do? No.

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.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

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.

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.

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

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 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.

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