Famous Quotes & Sayings

The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.

SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

Pushing kids too early is a problem I've seen through the years. If you start them too early, by the time they're in high school they're burned out on it.

Real' love is like a bird, which just soars higher and higher, whether or not it finds it's Pinnacle, even if it gets burnt a zillion times...it never ever 'even' thinks of going back to where it took off from...yeah...that's real love!!

People today get into this business because they want to end up famous and on the Food Network. They burn out and end up selling real estate.

The siding of the cabin was metal and . . . they would light the stick on fire and use the blackened portion of it to write their names with. And, as they were doing that, burning embers would fall onto the grassy area. That's how we feel the fire started.

Russ Feingold

The Supreme Court's decision to review the Vermont and Wisconsin cases means that the issue of campaign finance reform will be on the front burner for the court in the months ahead,

Roy Harper

I've listened to a lot of music, and I reckon that my records are definitely better, more stimulating, and more carefully constructed than any others. I've studied the melodies and lyrical forms of many artists, but no-one else quite seems to sustain the burning intensity of my own work.

Dan Boyle

It's a tough situation. One-third of the house is burned down. I lost a lot of my belongings, my clothes are all gone.

They're burning money. They can last a lot longer.

Mike Tirico

They're going to burn the city of Detroit down if the Pistons win, and it's not worth it.

Martha Stewart

There's every chance in the world that Cybill might be on the show Mark Burnett says,

There's definitely some good reasons to have a no burn warning right now, because it was fast.

The victim -- his legs were burned really bad.

David Strathairn

I tried all different kinds of tobacco to see which would be the least crippling and I ended up with pipe tobacco, ... I found that that burned less harshly. It also smelled better.

It really wasn't that bad. If you fill it, it burns well. Going out and getting the wood is not easy. It can be time-consuming.

It really reflects misplaced priorities when you can go to jail for a longer time for burning a photograph of someone's dog than for burning a dog. The laws just need to catch up with society's values.

It's all inside our fire line. It's just a matter of letting it burn right now.

It's all a mystery to me. Why would he burn a flag and then hang himself?

Khalil Gibran

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Your powerful radiance is burning the entire universe, and filling it with splendor, O Krishna.

You're burning a fuel to create a fuel. It doesn't seem very efficient to use what is a valuable energy source to turn rock into oil.

You might hear a song you like on 'Desperate Housewives' and automatically download it, watch the video, send it to your handheld device and burn it to a CD. All those things are possible in the fairly near future.

Josephine Baker

I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Josephine Baker

. . . I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

I made a decision today to release my champion desire burning inside of my heart.

Javier Solana

Images of burned hopes and destroyed villages recall scenes we had hoped we would never see again, ... Milosevic must know there is no place for his policy in Europe on the eve of the 21st century.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted

For the last six minutes, we are essentially in white-knuckle time, wondering if we're going to actually complete the burn and go into orbit.

If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king.

Katherine Heigl

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

Mother Teresa

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Paulo Freire

Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building.