Burnt Hand Quotes

#1. I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.

Ingeborg Bachmann

#2. No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising.

Hilary Kornblith

#3. Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.

George Herbert Palmer

#4. Redemption came as a wave of relief, but then it followed with a burden.

Building 429

#5. I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

Lalla Ward

#6. What can an artist use but materials, such as they are? What can he light but the short string of his gut, and when that's burnt out, any muck ready to hand?

Annie Dillard

#7. The apostles had this instinct: When in trouble, pray. When intimidated, pray. When challenged, pray. When persecuted, pray!

Jim Cymbala

#8. On the other hand, she had an uncanny resistance to physical pain: if she burnt her mouth or cut herself, as a rule she didn't cry. It was ill will, the ill will of the universe, that distressed her.

Margaret Atwood

#9. I commend my soul to any god that can find it.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Ah took a pish oan the cunt, then ah felt bad aboot Albo's cel so ah sais tae him oan the wey oot, cunt's only went n pished hissel but, eh.

Irvine Welsh

#11. A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.

Marianne Boruch

#12. The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.

Chick Corea

#13. Wayne is definitely one of the top five MCs to ever come out of the South.

RZA

#14. The music of hope is everywhere. All you have to do is listen for it.

Christine M. Knight

#15. He passed the lighter down the table until Descartes held it in one hand while setting the greasy cylinder down on the table. After smoothing it out, Descartes sparked up the lighter. With the lighter drawn near the grease, the aroma of burnt hair filled the board room.

Dylan Callens

#16. Creativity. Taking something enormously strange and somehow making it strangely familiar.

Jim Lewis

#17. Our passions, when well exercised, have wisdom; they guide our thinking, our values, our survival.

Daniel Goleman

#18. This is what I'm going to remember on the day I die," he said. "Right before I close my eyes, I'm going to remember this, the way your hand feels, the heat of your leg against mine, the smell of the skin on the back of your neck, like burnt sugar.

Sarah Black