Quotes about Burnt

Burnt child fire dredth. Votes: 3

The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water. Votes: 3

Nothing that truly matters Can ever evaporate, Be excised, Burnt out of your soul. Votes: 3

There was a time when all dark-skinned people were called Ethiopians, for the Greeks referred to Africa as, 'The Land Of The Burnt-Face People.' Votes: 3

Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept. Votes: 3

My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting. Votes: 3

A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen. Votes: 3

It's a bit of a history lesson, being an actor. I was in 'Burnt By The Sun' at the National, which was set in Stalinist Russia, so I discovered all about that. You learn so much as you go along. Votes: 3

You let him go alone? (Kat) Well, given the fact that it was in this time zone and there's a little thing outside called the sun...yeah. Burnt-up Daimon wouldn't be helpful to nobody, least of all me and my tailor. (Damien) Votes: 3

Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins. Votes: 3

In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!' Votes: 2

The sight of burnt orange makes me puke. Votes: 1

I think sandals should be burnt. I hate them - purge them! Votes: 1

I want to hold a CD I didn't burn. I hate burnt CDs. Votes: 1

For me, reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt. Votes: 1

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum? Votes: 1

After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun. Votes: 1

When you are at home, even if the chicken is a little burnt, what's the big deal? Relax. Votes: 1

When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up. Votes: 1

If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt. Votes: 1

Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine. Votes: 1

Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume. Votes: 1

There are also always those burnt, hard kernels at the bottom that don't pop. You know why they don't pop? They don't pop because they have integrity. Votes: 1

I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt. Votes: 1

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. Votes: 1

I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times. Votes: 1

The greatest villain of all time is The Joker - he always has been, and I don't know anyone who's not going to have Heath Ledger's performance burnt into their brains for the rest of their lives. Votes: 1

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. Votes: 1

The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it. Votes: 1

I do one accent - my own. I can make it louder or quieter. That is the sum total of my vocal range. I thought I could do an American accent until I tried it in front of an American - the expression of horror is still burnt onto my retinas. Votes: 1

I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too. Votes: 1

I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out. Votes: 1

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that. Votes: 1

My grandfather was a healer, and he used matches often. Once, he burnt a wart off my finger and then rubbed the ash deep into it, and it never did come back. When he worked at a factory, people would line up next to his truck to be healed. He died before he could teach us any of his secrets. Votes: 1

My days in hostel were tough. I was ragged by my seniors. We were asked to wash their dirty clothes, do their odd jobs, etc. When it came to eating, we would be often given burnt rotis and milk that had awful odour. But, never once did I call home. I knew if I had to become a tough cricketer, I would have to handle the pressure. Votes: 1

The burnt child dreads the fire. Votes: 0

A burnt finger remember the fire. Votes: 0

A burnt dog dreads the fire. Votes: 0

Why are old maps always burnt? Votes: 0

A burnt child dreads the fire. Votes: 0

A burnt child loves the fire. Votes: 0

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. Votes: 0

The sun burnt every day. It burnt time. Votes: 0

Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal. Votes: 0

All my spells smell like burnt hair lately. Votes: 0

The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth. Votes: 0

Barn's burnt down...now I can see the moon. Votes: 0

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground. Votes: 0

Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin. Votes: 0

Where books are burnt, men finish up being burnt too. Votes: 0

I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning. Votes: 0

The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt. Votes: 0

Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful. Votes: 0

Wood halfe burnt is easily kindled. [Wood half-burnt is easily kindled.] Votes: 0

I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire. Votes: 0

Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. Votes: 0

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt. Votes: 0

Violets smell like burnt sugar cubes that have been dipped in lemon and velvet. Votes: 0

It is better to have burnt & lost, then to never have barbecued at all. Votes: 0

A burnt and experienced hands are more important than the vessels in the kitchen. Votes: 0

my motheris pure radiance. she is the suni can touchand kissand holdwithout getting burnt. Votes: 0

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. Votes: 0

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original. Votes: 0

I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom. Votes: 0

All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money. Votes: 0

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers. Votes: 0

Our human knowledge is a candle burnt On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth. Votes: 0

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people. Votes: 0

Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves. Votes: 0

A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice. Votes: 0

Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end. Votes: 0

Arson, after all, is an artificial crime...A large number of houses deserve to be burnt. Votes: 0

This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end Votes: 0

The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire. Votes: 0

There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt. Votes: 0

I keep my love for her in the ashtray, along with the other stuff she burnt. Votes: 0

He was now in that state of fire that she loved. She wanted to be burnt. Votes: 0

Everything French is amazing, especially creme brulee, but then burnt sugar works for me in any capacity. Votes: 0

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use. Votes: 0

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before. Votes: 0

A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one Votes: 0

Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did. Votes: 0

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes! Votes: 0

The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem. Votes: 0

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time. Votes: 0

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin. Votes: 0

Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle, Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals. Votes: 0

It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt. Votes: 0

God gushed me out his nuts, the devil swallowed me up and I burnt a hole in his guts Votes: 0

Is our time up and on to the next fire / Got my fingers burnt and cut into the wire. Votes: 0

You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road. Votes: 0

There was an Irish space program to go to the sun. They went at night so they didn't get burnt. Votes: 0

A child may have to be snatched with roughness away from a fire so that he shall not be burnt. Votes: 0

You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes. Votes: 0

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did. Votes: 0

The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt. Votes: 0

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes. Votes: 0

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Votes: 0

Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'? Votes: 0

The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out. Votes: 0

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes. Votes: 0

Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History. Votes: 0

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever. Votes: 0

I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. Votes: 0

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. Votes: 0

Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin. Votes: 0

To pray against temptation, and yet rush into occasions, is to thrust your fingers into the fire, and then pray they might not be burnt. Votes: 0

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do. Votes: 0

I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves. Votes: 0

Today he wore a burnt-orange shirt, black pants, and a tie that looked like a street fight at the south end of the color wheel. Votes: 0

...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die. Votes: 0

Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops. Votes: 0

.....they had burnt and destroyed around 30 vehicles, including tanks and APC's and damaged three enemy helicopters. God bless the fighters of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party. Votes: 0

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended. Votes: 0

But what Freud showed us"¦ was that nothing can be grasped, destroyed, or burnt, except in a symbolic way, as one says, in effigie, in absentia. Votes: 0

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble. Votes: 0

A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa. Votes: 0

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last. Votes: 0

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge. Votes: 0

absencelooks like a lake bed flooded with skysounds like cotton howlingtastes like tear-stained pillowssmells like churning bile and burnt hairfeels like screaming agony, my heart dying and dying Votes: 0

The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15. Votes: 0

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to be burnt-out in this job. Votes: 0

My dad got me a chemistry book one Christmas and I burnt the garden shed down. I remember there was the most beautiful smell forever after in the remains. Votes: 0

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence. Votes: 0

I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt. Votes: 0

Yes, of course. I was on her like, um... I believe that old woman last week we took after she'd burnt down her house cooking said 'like white on rice', Votes: 0

In past wars only homes burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even loneliness ignites.In past wars only bodys burnt, but this timeDon't be surprised if even shadows ignite. Votes: 0

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years. Votes: 0

I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them. Votes: 0

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified. Votes: 0

Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music. Votes: 0

Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow Votes: 0

Be daring enough to be different, humble enough to make mistakes, wild enough to be burnt in the fire of love, real enough to make others see how phony you are. Votes: 0

Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy. Votes: 0

I turned vegetarian after 9/11. A friend of mine came back from New York and said that he couldn't stand the smell of burnt flesh. It immediately reminded me of a barbecue. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is. Votes: 0

I paint by all the daylight we have and that is little enough, less perhaps than you have by much... imagine to yourself how a purl must look through a burnt glass. Votes: 0

Time drops in decay Like a candle burnt out. And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day; But, kindly old rout Of the fire-born moods, You pass not away. Votes: 0

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt. Votes: 0

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle." Votes: 0

I'm in great shape considering I have hardware in my back. I work out constantly to keep my muscles limber and my abs strong so they can take the burnt of everything. Votes: 0

Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children's mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls! Votes: 0

Remember finally, that the ashes that were on your forehead are created from the burnt palms of last Palm Sunday. New beginnings invariably come from old false things that are allowed to die. Votes: 0

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages. Votes: 0

I dream of land, cut only where streams glistened with birdsong wander through quiet hills burnt hard by the scrape of wind, and of a porch from which a single road leads only homeward. Votes: 0

The only thing that counts is if you know how to prepare your ingredients. Even if with the best and freshest ingredients in the world, if your dish is tasteless or burnt, it's ruined. Votes: 0

I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties. You're not burnt out, you're going to stick around and most of the best cyclists are in their 30s. Votes: 0

[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where ignorance and superstition burnt me with their hell fire in those stifling days. Votes: 0

No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations. Votes: 0