(534 quotes found)
“When I was a fireman I was in a lot of burning buildings. It was a great job, the only job I ever had that compares with the thrill of acting. Before going into a fire, there's the same surge of adrenaline you get just before the camera rolls.”
Steve Buscemi
“If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.”
Norman Thomas
“I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him.”
Ariel Sharon
“Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .”
Hans Christian Andersen
“Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of”
William Shakespeare
“I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.”
Henry Fonda
“Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! / I'll burn my books!”
Christopher Marlowe
“It's better to burn out, than to fade away.”
Neil Young
“Thanks for passing the torch...I think I burned my hand, though.”
Julian Casablancas
“I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.”
Yoko Ono
