Famous Quotes & Sayings

Livy

Envy, like flames, soars upwards.

Louis D. Brandeis

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

James Patterson

I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it would be an improvement.' I agreed.

Hermann Hesse

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires towards the center, toward the true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen. In argument, for example, they will not shout and wave their arms. But I assure you, they are nevertheless burning with subdued fires.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed.

Gustav Mahler

Tradition is tending the flame, not worshiping the ashes.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

Alan Watts

A living body is not a fixed thing, but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.

Antonin Artaud

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

Charles Baudelaire

...and the lamp having at last resigned itself to death. There was nothing now but firelight in the room, And every time a flame uttered a gasp for breath It flushed her amber skin with the blood of its bloom.

William Shakespeare

One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.

Bob Uecker

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

Bernard Williams

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

Then all of the sudden it was just flames shooting out from underneath the hood.

Your flames are spreading... which are great and are like embodiments of truths. Your rays are reaching the sky.

Brenda Ueland

In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Demetri Martin

It is illegal to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. If there is a fire, please yell something else instead, like “Flames!” or “Smoke maker!” or “Bad hot!

Bob Dylan

Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Bruce Feirstein

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.

Brian P. Cleary

Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.

Debra Winger

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

Bono

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Antonio Porchia

All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

Eckhart Tolle

Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind

Edward R. Murrow

A thing of orchestrated hell-a terrible symphony of light and flame.

Flames shooting out of the roof on the right side of the house and flames were later shooting out of the roof on the left side of the house.

Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

Douglas Horton

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Adolf Hitler

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

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.