Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sugar Leonard

I figure it's like something that has to be, before Marvin and me can be content with ourselves. There is a burning desire in me now.

Joe Schmidt

I burned what end of the candle I had to burn,

J. R. Celski

I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.

I don't see what they gain by burning down a log building. They've got to cut down more logs to rebuild it,

He's not a guy you want to leave open for a big shot but at the same time you give him time to feed someone a pass and he'll burn you that way.

I came out of the game (late in the second half) and sat down and thought, 'Man, this is the last time I'm going to be here. So I might as well just leave it all out there. Then coach came up to me and said, 'Let's go. We need you right now.' So I decided from then on out, if I had to burn a hole in my shoes, I was not going to let (Augustine) touch the ball.

If copper wiring comes in, in a burnt format -- I hate to use that term, but that is what is often done to remove the covering from the copper -- it has lost about 50 percent of its original weight and we have no way of telling where it came from. All we can do is make sure we get valid identification from the person claiming they are the owner.

People aren't going to chase those types of rallies anymore. Investors have been burnt too often and we're going to have a choppy market going forward,

Brandon Flowers

I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it.

The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.

Bruce Willis

There was a lot of dancing in '76, '78, in the '80s. A lot of dancing. The burn years. A lot of dancing. And for a while, working fit in with all that. 'Moonlighting' - that wasn't acting. It was people telling me 'Let's create a character who is you, so you can play him the way you are. The guy you are at night.' It was fun.

Louis Leterrier

'Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Captain America?' They would burn my passport.

We didn't do a very good job at defending tonight. A few times, our corners got sealed inside and we got burned on it.

Lisa McMann

I vividly remember sixth grade. It's the year when kids turn mean, and it's definitely no longer okay to cry in public. So we force our hot tears back, and they burn our throats all the way down.

For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from birth until death.

And on 25 January of each year and for many days before it and after it there is not an hour in the day or night when a Burns Supper is not taking place somewhere on this earth.

There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

will.i.am

When the music industry started collapsing, the logical people understood that the only place to go for shelter was the underground. If the world on the surface is burning up, and you know people that have bunkers, go to the bunkers.

Trace Adkins helped keep country's traditionalist flame burning during the crossover-happy late '90s.

George Martin

We're lucky, real lucky. Our friends lost their house. We just had some burning embers put holes in the screens.

Sylvia Plath

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Seth Shostak

Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?

We gave them far too many power plays. They are incredible and have a great power play. You give them that many and you're going to get burned sooner or later.

Today we do not need to burn our hand in a flame to know that there is a danger, the experiments confirming the danger are more than sufficient.

Ian Holloway

When you see the coals, your first reaction is to think 'my God, that's going to burn me', ... If someone can teach you how to put that out of your mind, how can that fail to make you a better footballer? You may not be able to walk afterwards, which is a risk, but it's one we're willing to take. You have to stop thinking about your family or anything else that is going on outside the game. You can get better at it and the more experience you get the easier it becomes.

We are recommending no one do any outside burning because it is very dry all over Texas.

It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off.

William Shatner

My fear is dying badly, through illness or injury. But what a glorious demise it would be to burn up in space.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.

Valerie June

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.