Burn Quotes

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me - I never retreat.

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

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.

I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.

So it's one of those things where we have to - our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don't want to burn the audience. And we don't want to be excluding anybody.

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

We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.

It's better to burn out than it is to rust.

We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin.

I burn with no causes.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it; but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

I definitely don't ever want to burn out at my job.

Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he's doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

Never burn your bridges till you come to them.

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.