Singed Quotes

#1. He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

Lloyd Alexander

#2. Desperation's heated breath singed my neck, its jagged teeth prepared to devour my flesh. Poverty growled too, waiting its turn, famished yet patient, a beast that dined on the bones of men.

Eric Jerome Dickey

#3. I know what death smells like. Death smells like gasoline, singed hair and fingernails.
It smells like cooking meat. My meat.

Rasmenia Massoud

#4. Valek leaned back in his chair and said to me, "I don't think I would have made it past the audition,Yelena. I probably would have set my hair on fire by this point."
"What's a singed head for the sake of art?" I teased. He laughed.

Maria V. Snyder

#5. She was singed, bleeding, bruised, and furiously alive.

J.D. Robb

#6. For what angry God arching backward over the world. his anus spitting fire, the fetid breath of his mouth propelling blood-colored clouds, his navel full of burnt pitch and singed feathers, have we given our eyes, our teeth, our eyeglasses, bales of our our hair, and the magic of our worthless gold?

Erica Jong

#7. Eyebrows and hair singed off, Hector is barely recognizable under a lathering of day-glow orange. He appears to have been tarred-and-feathered with orange tar and oatmeal feathers.

Ray Palla

#8. My wife, although still with her arm in a sling, was so much better this morning that she took care of me. I was amused to hear her ask for some white ointment which she put over her brows to conceal the fact that her eyebrows had been singed. Her returning vanity was a good sign.

Michihiko Hachiya

#9. Jacob scrubbed his hand over his mouth, before pulling it away and staring down at it as if he'd been singed.

She smirked. Her juices were all over his face. She hoped they set him on fire. She hoped she was imprinted on him forever.

Alisha Rai

#10. I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

Jeffrey Combs

#11. Eyes the infinite black of the night sky bore into her and carved deep grooves along every curve. She felt the weight of his desire wash over her like the slow rise of dawn creeping across the bed in the morning. It singed every inch of her.

Airicka Phoenix

#12. Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

Wes Fesler

#13. But the irony is that unless God's in the center of it, you can get singed pretty badly.

Julie Lessman

#14. Sometimes singed wings will fly with greater purpose.

Tom Althouse

#15. The one advantage of playing with fire, Lady Caroline, is that one never gets even singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

Oscar Wilde

#16. Now he was singed by pain. When he finally opened his eyes he saw, at the end of the narrow green path, dazzlingly bright light. There she is, he thought breathlessly, there she is. With a shout of joy and deliverance he plunged forward to meet the light.

Hella S. Haasse

#17. What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. I've seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.

Roman Payne

#19. I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed.

Rick Santelli

#20. Flames moved towards him
and dropped within
-
singed and marred
his tender skin ...
(the frightful plight tale)

Muse

#21. (The baby sneezed. Wulf jumped as fire shot out of its nostrils and almost singed his leg.)
Excuse me. I almost made Dark-Hunter barbecue, which would be really sad 'cause I ain't got no barbecue sauce with me. (Simi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#22. So in that dark and tangled night,
the chaw of chaws rose to flight,
with talons bloodied, feathers singed.
A battle won - a war begins!

Kathryn Lasky

#23. There was a blinding flash of magnesium and a smell of singed hair and dust. A green light flared in the boar's glass eye.

Linda Lappin

#24. You can be so much in a room that the world outside turns to water. You've got the heater blowing out burnt air, but you still don't get warm. Your ankles are singed, but your head's in a bucket of ice. Time drips like a stalactite. The water for the coffee boils away in a tree of steam.

Iain Sinclair

#25. My head is buried in the sands of tomorrow, while my tail feathers are singed by the hot sun of today.

John Barrymore

#26. How did you know what I was thinking?" Her body jolted at the touch of his hand, wanting more than his hand touching her.
"I know these things. I can read your mind."
"Oh." A heat singed her skin.
"I know about your husband, Richard. He's not good.

Nancy Glynn

#27. Sometimes I just needed to talk about it, even though it singed like touching the end of a match. I just needed to feel that pain for a moment, to know that it was real. It was my pain. I had earned it by living through it.

Shelly Crane

#28. The central movement of the mind is the desire for unrestricted liberty and ( ... ) this movement is invariably accompanied by its opposite, a dread of the consequences of liberty.

Thornton Wilder

#29. The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes

Alexej Von Jawlensky

#30. Still, you tend to believe what you always believed, think what you always thought, expect what you always expected

Rick Yancey

#31. If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness

Mariah Carey

#32. Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.

Anthony Bourdain

#33. When you're in command, command.

Chester W. Nimitz

#34. The power of a positive self-image plays a vital role in experiencing perfect health.

Deepak Chopra

#35. It was a very strange, disappointing race in that no one wanted to take it out. That's why I took the lead. I wanted some people to run the real distance and that was frustrating. So I took the pace around the second lap, which in some ways is suicidal ... but I wanted the pace to be honest.

Marla Runyan

#36. It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!

Tom Ridge

#37. And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Tom Hanks

#38. Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore.

Nathan Wolfe