Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edmund White

Psychoanalysis feeds on intensity, as though life were all flame and no ash.

Benjamin Disraeli

You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.

Alfred North Whitehead

The purpose of education is not to fill a vessel but to kindle a flame.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty; such as lurks In some wild poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim.

Alcee Hastings

The Middle East is literally going up in flames, as is California, and Katrina's problems haven't been solved, and Congress' response is to criticize Federal judges.

Adolf Hitler

Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.

Those flames are sky-high. This is really scary.

Alexander Pushkin

If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.

Andy Goldsworthy

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

Andrew Motion

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Joy is a flame which association alone can keep alive, and which goes out unless communicated.

Christine Feehan

She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

Tom Johnston

Out of these piles, you would get flame lengths of 10 to 15 feet. When there's normal moisture, the flame lengths would be 6 to 7 feet.

Pierre Corneille

It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

May the light of freedom, coming to all darkened lands, flame brightly - until at last the darkness is no more.

Andre Gide

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

Alton Brown

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

Ann Aguirre

Is that love? It seems like a pale word, too easily tossed about by people who don’t know the meaning of it, who twist it for their own ends. I’m afraid of it now, right up there with clowns, close spaces, and open flames.

Andrei Tarkovsky

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul

Annie Proulx

Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.

Douglas Horton

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Amy Grant

I'm frustrated by something, it's my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it's just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?

Anne Rice

One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world.

Alfred Doblin

I read like the flame reads the wood.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Robert Southey

Love is indestructible. It's holy flame forever burneth; from Heaven it came, to Heaven returneth.

Robert Lopez

My god, I wanted to go in there and smash that window and try and see if I could pull her out. But the flames were too high. It's gone.

Debra Winger

In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

Behold a candle, how it gives its light. It weeps its life away drop by drop in order to give forth its flame of light.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

C. S. Lewis

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.

It went through the inside of the house. It's pretty extreme. The flames went pretty much everywhere.

Gene Chizik

They are going to move the ball, and they are going to hit a big play on you here and there. Everything at that point comes down to how you respond. You can't let the flames become fires.