Burns Quotes

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

Environmental concern is a little like dieting or paying off credit-card debt - an episodically terrific idea that burns brightly and then seems to fade when we realize there's a reason we need to diet or pay down our debt. The reason is that it's really, really hard, and too many of us in too many spheres of life choose the easy over the hard.

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth.

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.

You know what burns me? Matches.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I think in my case, I had no choice but to have a good sense of humor. I grew up with my dad, Danny Thomas, and George Burns and Bob Hope and Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and all those guys were at our house all the time and telling jokes and making each other laugh.

In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into day, The air stings like Autumn, clarifies like pain - Well, I have dreamed this coast myself.

Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

He that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

I always put clothes and family photos under the mattress, in case the house burns down.

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

Mr. Burns is a father symbol to me, and you can omit the word symbol.

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

A band is sort of like a star. It reaches a peak and burns out. To have five guys working in perfect harmony longer than a couple years is difficult.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

George Burns was the father I never had.

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories.

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.