A Quote by Mel Brooks

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Mel Brooks

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Mel Brooks
American - Comedian
Born: June 28, 1926

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. The job is to make people laugh. I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

Mel Brooks

Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.

Edward Dunlop

Don't listen to me. Listen to yourself ... People often ask me at this age, 'Who am I passing the torch to?' First of all, I'm not giving up my torch, thank you! I'm using my torch to light other people's torches. ... If we each have a torch, there's a lot more light.

Gloria Steinem

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.

Alberto Tomba

You think I'm not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you'll burn.

Margaret Atwood

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

George Bernard Shaw

Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.

Jerome K. Jerome

Torch every book. Burn every page. Char every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real fear.

Ellen Hopkins

I've burned my own house down, the torch is in my hand.Now I'll burn down the house of anyone who wants to follow me.

Kabir

Faith is like lighting the torch that passes from one person to the next. You can't light the torch of another if yours isn't burning.

Charles R. Swindoll

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

Libba Bray

P. Diddy's gonna be exhausted, you know, running with the Olympic torch in one hand and the torch he'll always carry for J-Lo in the other.

Doug Benson

Don't lose yourself to anger. It's gasoline. You can burn it as fuel, or you can use it to torch everything you care about and end up standing on a scorched battlefield, with everybody dead, even you-only your body doesn't have the good grace to quit breathing

Karen Marie Moning

A Guru is not someone who holds a torch for you. He is the torch.

Jaggi Vasudev

Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast ‘em, fry and roast ‘em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy!

J. R. R. Tolkien

At my age, in this still hierarchical time, people often ask me if I’m “passing the torch.” I explain that I’m keeping my torch, thank you very much-and I’m using it to light the torches of others.

Gloria Steinem

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