Quotes About Singe

#1. My tears fall backward, burning as they singe their way down my throat.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. The funny thin is, you say it like it's so unusual that you've only done it once. But I bet a whole lot of people go through their lives without ever telling the truth, not really. And they wake up in the same body and the same life every singe morning.

David Levithan

#3. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

William Shakespeare

#4. My flesh began to singe as if I were a scrap of meat newly thrown onto the barbecue, and then i could hear the bubbling of my skin as the flames kissed it.

Andrew Davidson

#5. Slowly, the light receded, and she could see a singe sword, hanging in the air, a sword of pure white, of light and truth.

Tyrean Martinson

#6. I am waiting to write the poem that is something like a dance movie, the ones populated by fair haired ballerinas with just a little bit of singe to their tulle, not quite as dark as the Natalie Portman one, but girls woefully misunderstood by their parents or harboring dead mothers and sad pasts.

Kristy Bowen

#7. To go to law is for two persons to kindle a fire, at their own cost, to warm others and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree as to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves that others may be decorated with their feathers.

Owen Feltham

#8. Some people will burn your world into ashes and yet the smoke from the singe would still be in love with them,

Novoneel Chakraborty

#9. Not the way I knew Christian's touch would burn me, the way it blessed me and bled me, the way he would singe me as his fingers traced my skin, the way he would sear me with his kiss. I couldn't handle anything so intense.

A.L. Jackson

#10. I still don't know what kind of woman I am. But as the flame nears the fingers that trust the match, as close as the skin can stand it to singe, I call this the nerve to find out.

-Self Portrait Of A Woman Standing Outside Your House With A Match And A Gallon Of Gasoline

Ashley Toliver

#11. I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

A.M. Homes

#12. Christ, I walk through an inferno unscatched, then singe my ass on the flight back."
[ ... ]
"You guys are the ... the heart and brain of the Great Machine."
"Yeah? Then you're the inflamed anus."
"You're not the brain, by the way.

Brian K. Vaughan

#13. The freezing in hell that comes before the everlasting fire where sinners bubble and singe forever.

Toni Morrison

#14. If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.

Jeaniene Frost

#15. Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#16. Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?

William Shakespeare

#17. [W]hoever leads an auspicious life here and governs the commonwealth rightly, as my most noble father did, who promoted all piety and banished all ignorance, has a most certain way to heaven.

Henry VIII Of England

#18. I can't be good ALL the time.

Anne Taintor

#19. Cynicism is fear posing as confidence; joy is hope let off the leash.

Bob Goff

#20. I quote Tolkien because he puts it better. But I can still open a can of whup ass all over you."
You're right," I told him. "He does put it better.

Karen Chance

#21. It's not always easy to distinguish between existentialism and a bad mood.

Matthew Woodring Stover

#22. Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?

Michael Chabon

#23. If the opposite of certainty is doubt, humility must lie somewhere between the two,

Ron Suskind

#24. (there is no one, but no one, more gullible than a psychiatrist),

Robert Barnard