Burning Quotes

I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.

To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it.

Ladies and Gentleman, the Bronx is burning.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying.

What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.

I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.

I've read plenty of J.G. Ballard, but I'm not really a Ballardian. I've met Ballardians, and I know when I can't compete. I like Ballard in his relatively unchallenging apocalyptic mode: 'Vermilion Sands,' 'The Drowned World,' 'The Burning World,' 'The Crystal World.'

It's as certain that as long as fossil fuels are the cheapest energy, we will just keep burning them.

I'm not out burning bras, but I'm very opinionated about women owning their power.

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.

As a writer, there are times when you have something to say, and yet no particular 'hook' upon which to hang the missive you are burning to release.