Top 100 Quotes About Burned
#1. This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life?
Leelee Sobieski
#2. The air is full of a farewell- deserted by the silver lake lies the wild world, overturned. Cities rise where the mountains fell, the furnace where the phoenix burned
Kathleen Raine
#3. Thirty-two steps until Haley Tremaine entered hell. Thirty-two steps until she walked into the smell of alcohol and burned microwaveable meals, into a place where fear overwhelmed.
Krystal Wade
#4. So bright
the flames burned
in our hearts
that we found
each other
in the dark
Dallas Green
#5. Russia had always been an anomaly. Here they were, in the center of the city that had burned down around Napoleon's army, having "traditional" Russian cuisine that had been invented by the French.
Kenneth Eade
#6. Evil is done in hopes that evil surrenders, but the deeds of the devil are burned too deep in the embers, and world of hunger in vengeance will always remember.
Phil Ochs
#7. For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.
Alexander Pope
#8. Who burned cigarette holes in their arms protesting the narcotic tobacco haze of Capitalism
Allen Ginsberg
#9. Prior to that I had written many works but I was unable to present them for publication, in fact I had burned them all.
Gao Xingjian
#10. You will never see the ends of his armies. They blanket the Earth as a storm blankets the sky, but the sun will never rise again."
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, yeah. You demonic all think you're Shakespeare. Really nice. Good-bye." Then I took off her head and the rest of her burned up.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#12. I loved the way the burned-out flashcubes of the Kodak Instamatic marked a moment that had passed, one that would now be gone forever except for a picture.
Alice Sebold
#13. There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;
Norman Vincent Peale
#14. The twentieth will be a short century," he said. "Either we or the Soviets will launch the missiles before long, and all the lies will be burned away.
David Burr Gerrard
#15. I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.
Summer Altice
#16. At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world.
Prem Prakash
#17. He told her, I don't remember any other lover but you.
I don't believe you.
I don't. I know the facts of other lovers, but all the real, visceral memory, or any emotion has burned away. Those lovers happened to someone else, the man I was before I met you.
Thea Harrison
#18. You got nothing left here but enemies in the Junior League and a mama that's gonna drive you to drink. You done burned ever bridge there is. And you ain't never gone get another boyfriend in this town and everbody know it. So don't walk your white butt to New York, run it.
Kathryn Stockett
#19. Moscow was burned by its citizens
that is true; not, however by the citizens who remained, but by those that went away.
Leo Tolstoy
#20. When someone is trapped in a burning building, you don't try to work out what caused the fire and then decide whether the people inside get your sympathy. When people are in danger of burning up, you rush to save them. Especially if you remember how much it hurts to be burned.
Christine Caine
#21. I burned through all of my extra lives in a matter of minutes, and my two least-favorite words appeared on the screen: GAME OVER.
Ernest Cline
#22. It meant that from out of the fire that burned deep in my core, Smoke turned out to be the darkest flame. Just one look and he utterly consumed me.
Christina Lee
#23. When Thomas Edison's factory burned to the ground in 1914, destroying one-of-a-kind prototypes and causing $23 million in damage, Edison's response was simple:
"Thank goodness all our mistakes were burned up. Now we can start fresh again.
Thomas Edison
#24. And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine
Burned like the ruby fire set
In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine,
Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate,
Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet
With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.
Oscar Wilde
#25. Dangerous to me, that sexuality, because I'd been burned by that flame once before and would be forever scorched.
Megan Hart
#26. (Sookie's Thoughts on Debbie Pelt) she had been cruel to Alcide, insulted me grievously, burned a hole in my favorite wrap and - oh - tried to kill me by proxy. Also, she had stupid hair.
Charlaine Harris
#27. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?
Kahlil Gibran
#28. You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.
Nancy Sinatra
#29. Some guys had lousy circuit breakers in their heads. They tripped easy, and once they did, those guys would burn on until they burned out.
Stephen King
#30. Breaking up could sit in front of you for a while. It was a ring of fire you had to at last decide to run through. You finally got tired of standing there, looking at it, feeling the heat, tired enough to finally just let go. Getting burned at last seemed better than the waiting to get burned.
Deb Caletti
#31. So the cold barracks were spared, lonely as they were, and the armories were unscathed, empty as they were, and the larders went unmolested, depleted as they were, and only the common people burned.
Mike S. Elton
#32. I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.
David Lynch
#33. The jolt of fear had burned all the red out of my blood.
Denis Johnson
#34. The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives.
Craig Venter
#35. I mean, when the British burned down the White House in the war of 1812, did we plant a "Tree of Remembrance" in the ashes, or did we get busy rebuilding?
Brian K. Vaughan
#36. If getting dumped by a spouse for a "younger model" burned women, then losing the love of your life to a wealthier lover burned men.
Morgan Parker
#37. The funeral business is so manipulative emotionally. I would want to be thrown into the sea or burned - something that's not a big hassle.
Bjork
#38. Ardet nec consomitur," Melina said. "Burned but not destroyed.
Ransom Riggs
#39. The last time I saw Wade, I attacked him with an office chair. The time before that, I jammed a lit cheesecake up his ass and almost burned his balls off. So it's understandable that his first reaction upon seeing me is to flinch and assume a defensive posture.
Jonathan Tropper
#40. His cottage in Gweedore was made completely out of turf. This puzzled me, as a turf fire burned constantly in the grate, and I could never understand why the entire cottage didn't catch fire.
Arthur Mathews
#41. Mir has long since been deorbited and burned up in the atmosphere.
Chris Hadfield
#42. The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
Aesop Rock
#43. I was everything I was ever asked to be, and as my reward my life was burned to ash. Do not speak to me of easing my pain. My pain is all I have left. Do not speak to me of being a Shadowhunter. I am not one of them. I refuse to be.
Cassandra Clare
#44. What a crazy way to be buried, he thought as he hunted. Get your body burned up and then poured into a box that looked like a library book, like your relatives could check you out and take you home for a couple of weeks. Would there be an overdue penalty if they were late bringing back the dead?
Brian Keene
#45. There is no destiny so great it cannot be altered, Chase Williams. Stone can be broken, parchment can be burned, and words can be lost. The past is all that is constant.
M.R. Merrick
#46. Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.
Charlie LeDuff
#47. The light that burned twice as bright burned half as long.
Cassandra Clare
#48. Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again.
She took every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind.
Sarah J. Maas
#49. A Polish terrorist was sent to blow up a car. He burned his mouth on the exhaust pipe!
Henny Youngman
#50. Well, good afternoon, sunshine. How are you feeling?"
"Like something the cat dragged in, then dragged back outside to leave in the rain, and mud, then the lightning hit it, and burned it, and the cat came back to tear it into pieces, before burying it.
Kimberly Montague
#51. The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
Jimi Hendrix
#52. We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo - men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?
Robert McNamara
#53. If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
George Bernard Shaw
#54. I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#55. The money truck caught on fire and some of the money was burned, but we took what we could and later I made it a payday for everyone. I still have some of those burnt notes and someday I will cash them in for some good ones. The
Ali Ahmad Jalali
#56. I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.
Jim Garrison
#57. How handsome he must have been before he was burned. Heat flared over my skin. How handsome he was now.
Elly Blake
#58. In this life, we are not garments which may be washed and worn again, Karris. We are candles, giving light and heat until we are consumed. You burned more brightly than most. It has a cost. Mediocrities like me? Dim flames burn longer.
Brent Weeks
#60. Love, our love, had been a shooting star, burning in the darkness, unseen until it got too close, too bright and too quick to capture. It burned out, lost to the deep cold and darkness, to the brutality of space, the infinity above us and in the new emptiness inside of me.
Karina Halle
#61. The people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought of their act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness. The same can be said of most of the violence humans have ever committed.
Gil Bailie
#62. Imagine if [Juliet] woke up and he was still alive, but ... " She swallowed, waiting out a tremor in her voice. "But [Romeo] had killed her whole family. And burned her city. And killed and enslaved her people.
Laini Taylor
#63. I was very burned out after Buffy. It was exhausting. It took me from essentially 18 on the pilot to being 24 and married when we finished. That show was my life. I was doing movies on the hiatuses and on weekends, but I needed to explore and live that gypsy lifestyle.
Sarah Michelle Gellar
#64. His words burned to my very core as I drew a horrible conclusion. None of it had been real. I'd fallen in love with a boy who'd never belonged to me in the first place.
G.J. Walker-Smith
#65. He ought to buy her a new dress. She would never accept it, of course, but maybe if her current garments were accidentally burned ...
... But how could he manage to burn her dress? She'd have to not be wearing it, and that posed a certain challenge in and of itself ...
Julia Quinn
#66. Gram and Gramps never spoke of them either. I guess that bridge got burned, too. Hell, Gram probably poured the gasoline and lit the match herself!
AnnaLisa Grant
#67. In case anyone in America had missed the utter helplessness of their government, 4,000 British troops captured and burned Washington DC. The Presidential mansion, where the decision for war had been taken, was one of the public buildings to be torched.
Andrew D. Lambert
#68. Two Polish men at Halloween with burned faces. What happened? They were bobbing for french fries.
Henny Youngman
#69. The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.
Giacomo Casanova
#70. But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.
Ibn Al-Farid
#71. It didn't matter that she was one of his best friend's cousins, or that she was a decade younger than him, or that he knew he'd likely get burned by her. He wanted to taste her again and this time he wasn't going to stop at kissing. Not unless she told him to.
Katie Reus
#72. Low light demanded 'fast' film, usually ISO 400 or higher; the fastest available would be about ISO 1000. When the sun was bright, you would reach for ISO 64 to avoid the burned-out look of overexposure.
David Hewson
#73. I could weep for all the innocent women and children who were burned and maimed in London - and it doesn't help at all to know that German women and children are suffering the same.
Ken Follett
#74. If you abuse power, you will be burned and then you will learn ... if you live.
Frederick Lenz
#75. Uri...vinciri...verberari...ferroque necari.
I will endure to be burned... to be bound... to be beaten... and to be killed by the sword.
Lesley Livingston
#76. This is the worst day of my life'. I groaned and put my head in my hands.
'You can't possibly know that. You might have something really awful going to happen to you later on. All your children burned to death or your nose cut off in a revolving door'.
Victoria Clayton
#77. Bridges burned and pages turned with every tear that fell from my eyes.
Abigail George
#78. What is the point of labeling each individual piece of fruit? Buy the fruit, EAT the ad! We've carved a chunk out of the ozone, burned up all the rainforests, soon we won't be able to BREATHE, and all because we had to label each individual piece of fruit.
Lucy Ellmann
#79. To carry a secret is to play with fire. Try to pass it on and you'd risk hurting someone else. Hold on to it and eventually you'd get burned.
Emily Thorne
#80. I was pretty burned out in '85 and was getting - starting to get into some issues.
Rick Springfield
#81. Sudden moisture burned against the back of his eyelids. He blinked it away before crushing his lips to hers, focusing all of his emotion on the joining of their mouths.
No matter what happened tomorrow, he hoped tonight, this moment, would be something she would never forget.
Rosalie Lario
#82. The cherries on the ends of our cigarettes burned a bright orange against the surrounding shadows, like the stirring of embers, waiting for the phoenix to rise.
Katherine McIntyre
#83. I can't stay mad very long. I get grumpy when I read a bad review. I say, 'How could he say that about my music?' Then I forget about it. If I got mad every time somebody wrote something negative about me, I'd be exploding all the time. I'd be burned out just from reading reviews.
Julian Lennon
#84. His arms surrounded me, pulling me close, holding me as if I was infinitely precious. I burned and trembled in his embrace.
Julianne Donaldson
#85. The men poured gasoline on them and burned them alive, having no remedy for evil but only for the image of it as they conceived it to be.
Cormac McCarthy
#86. When I did "Top of the Pops" for the first time, Ace of Base was one of the other bands, and I have a memory of them on a small stage next to me in the TV studio. A memory of their performance is burned into my mind. Seared.
Beck
#87. Mizuta Masahide's haiku: "My barn having burned down / I can now see the moon.
Sarah Lewis
#88. The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.
P. J. O'Rourke
#89. The crime scene was a small burned out house, blackened support beams sticking up like rotten teeth from the piles of char and ash on the ground. The occasional curl of half-burned insulation lay like thin snakes, poisonous and waiting.
Alex Hughes
#90. It would be like those epic love affairs that exploded into existence and burned white hot for all eternity. The type of love that time and distance and death couldn't seperate
Marissa Meyer
#91. You don't need to follow every impulse in life; you don't need to take on every gamble. But some, even ones that have burned you before, well some of them you do. Some of the sweetest moments in life come from second chances.
R.K. Lilley
#92. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away.
Louis De Bernieres
#93. Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.
Alice Walker
#94. And about in the late '80s, I got kind of burned out a little bit.
Lee Majors
#95. If all the harps in the world were burned down, still inside the heart there will be hidden music playing.
Rumi
#96. Despite the cold chill, she burned inside with a hunger she didn't want to dismiss. Not tonight.
Katherine McIntyre
#97. Blech! Smells like Chewbacca's burned butt hair. Where the hell am I?
Julie Ann Walker
#98. Apparently,they've decided that's a gray zone. It could get them all burned." Then he adds in a whisper, almost to himself, "But the fire can be tempting.
Susan Ee
#99. This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million.
Charlotte Ross
#100. When Rome burned, the emperor's cats still expected to be fed on time.
Seanan McGuire
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