Top 1200 Burn Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

Bodies have their own light which they consume to live: they burn, they are not lit from the outside.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

There isn't a studio in the world that wouldn't burn half its soundstages to get a Tom Cruise movie.

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

Put fire into your workout any you burn off worry and frustration!

My family worry for me because I'm gonna burn in an eternal pit of fire.

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It will not finish itself. Do not try to commit art. Just tell the damned story.

Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.

I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.

When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the book came out, it was surprising to me that the mental health community embraced it.

For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a school boy turned into a soldier overnight.

I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.

'Catcher In The Rye' was my favorite book, honestly. I read it when I was thirteen, and the book was a bit of a family heirloom because it was passed down from my grandfather to my father to my older brother and then to me.

When I think of my best days as husband, I find I was doing what Regi said in this book. What Radical Husbands Do is a practical book I can safely give any man who is struggling in his marriage.

I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

A book is quite a beautiful thing, even more so learning. Together, however, all they amount to is called book-learning.

I have no fear to burn my mouth and throat I’m ready to drink every flame and more.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?

We already had all the songs, and it turns out all you have to do is burn them to some CDs, so why not?

Told you, Rose. Get too close to the sun, and you'll burn." -Edward Elric

A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?

I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

Any alphabet book for children where 'P is for Patti' Smith and 'X is for the women whose names we don't know' is something I can recommend, especially when the book is as well written, representationa lly diverse and vividly illustrated as this one.

A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.

To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves.

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

If the furnace is hot enough, anything will burn, even Big Macs.

Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.

I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

I'm young. I'm pretty. And I'm willing to burn the whole world to the ground to get what I want.

Book ideas are like planes, lined up to approach the runway. Some never leave the gate, but others move quickly to the front of the line. It was like that with The Four Purposes. Honestly, I cannot remember the moment I had the idea for the book; perhaps because it emerged like a green shoot emerging from the soil of my subconscious. But it seemed important enough to begin the flow of words that eventually shaped themselves into this new book.

My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.

It's not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

It's better to burn brightly for half as long than to be a dim lingering light.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?

I will burn, but this is a mere incident. We shall continue our discussion in eternity.

It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years.

Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything to me. I had many doubts and fears about that book, but some of what I feel are the best ideas in it came to me when I was working away for apparently no result. Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

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

I am very bad at remembering the books I've read and so recently I had a wonderful experience. I decided I wanted to teach Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. I hadn't read it in twenty-five years. I was surprised to find how much I drew from that book. Stole from that book, learned from that book about writing. I had forgotten and there it was. Morrison has called that text faulted. I cannot see how.

I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Oftentimes, rumors burn white hot only to fizzle as fast as they ignited.

I re-read The History of White People by Nell Irvin Painter. It's a book every one should read, particularly Americans, as the USA is her primary focus. Her book demonstrates that white is not universal, that white is not neutral, that it has a history, which she eloquently delineates. It's not often you finish a book understanding how the world operates better than before you read it.

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.