Top 1200 Burn Book Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When leaders choose to burn bridges instead of build them, they sacrifice their ability to do their jobs.

But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

I'd much rather eat exactly what I want, and then burn it off, than diet.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

If I had a gun, I'd shoot a hole into the sun and love would burn this city down for you.

It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards.

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

I don't know but a book in a man's brain is better off than a book bound in calf--at any rate it is safer from criticism. And taking a book off the brain, is akin to the ticklish & dangerous business of taking an old painting off a panel--you have to scrape off the whole brain in order to get at it with due safety--& even then, the painting may not be worth the trouble.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

I love cooking fajitas. I'm from Texas, and it's not a difficult thing to do, but a lot of people burn the chicken.

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings.

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.

The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller.

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time.

As we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide, much of which is absorbed by the oceans.

Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.

There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn.

It was unimaginable what happens to you when you get known for a book that everybody reads, or that everybody has heard of. If the book is said to be sexy, the crazies come out of the woodwork.

The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers.

If you know everything, it keeps you from writing. You don't want a story to burn you out instead of surprising you.

America is the only country in the world where you can burn the flag but can't tear the tag off the mattress.

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

When I was shooting for the film 'No Problem,' there was a fire on the sets and I had some burn injuries in my leg.

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

I'm not the first person to have said this - no writer ever feels that the execution of a book lives up to the idea for that book. The execution always falls short.

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Yes, all my illusions will burn into illumination of joy, and all my desires ripen into fruits of love.

The good die first, and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket.

I think you have to go and fill your cup and do so diversely; otherwise, then you burn out.

Some tears have to be cried no matter what the hour- until they are, they simply rave and burn inside.

Someone gave me the Love Languages book, and that has been the best book I've ever read about relationships and has helped me the most.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading it, find it hard to tell the difference.

Reactionary movements can't sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.

When the book is over, I think of innovative marketing ways to reach to a larger audience. I think wine and cheese book launch parties are a waste.

I wish I had a talking book that told me how to act and look, a talking book that contained keys to past and present memories

I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.

Stop all doing and be still. Let the fire of stillness burn everything and reveal That which is Openness.

I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library.

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

I struck my match, she poured out her gasoline. We burn now. All the time.

I can't go into Oklahoma without thinking about Larry Clark's photography book 'Tulsa.' It's a great book about how life works.

I used to burn rubber at every light, mean mugging everything there was, cause that was my attitude.

Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.

Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love.

For the book unwritten is the book burned.

We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

It doesn't help me to burn bridges, but I'm not going to sit back and be given blame when I don't deserve it.

Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.