Flame Quotes - page 3

Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? (Franz Schubert)
To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul. View quote
Andrei Tarkovsky
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world. View quote
Jonah Lehrer
As, when one torch has been fired, flame is transmitted to all the neighbouring candlesticks, without either the first light being lessened or blazing with unequal brilliance on the other points where it has been caught; so the saintliness of a life is transmitted from him who has achieved it, to those who come within his circle. View quote
Gregory of Nyssa
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes. View quote
Anne McCaffrey
It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Unwinds didn't go out with a bang-they didn't even go out with a whimper. they went out with the silence of a candle flame pinched between two fingers. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever burn for a match and a stick? It did quite literally; he burned up quick. View quote
Tim Burton
I don't want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art. (Jennifer Egan)
I read like the flame reads the wood. View quote
Alfred Doblin
His eyes were green chips of flame, and the growl was so thick it blurred the air around him, the sound of a very pissed off skinchanger. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
I watch the Eruptions. Mount Dad, long dormant, now considered armed and dangerous. Mount Saint Mom, oozing lava, spitting flame. Warn the villagers to run into the sea. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. View quote
Lady Bird Johnson
Even when a river of tears courses through this body, the flame of love cannot be quenched. View quote
Izumi Shikibu
I learned that in each of us there burns a flame of independence that must never be allowed to go out. That as long as it exists within us we cannot be destroyed. View quote
Bryce Courtenay
I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want) View quote
Sapardi Djoko Damono
Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they dont sing to you. Ive got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this. View quote
Antony Starr
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. View quote
David James Duncan
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. (Jane Porter)
'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed. View quote
Josh Young
This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home. View quote
Paul Kane
The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage. View quote
Terence Fisher
We want to stop all immigration from Islamic countries. We want to stimulate voluntary re-emigration to Islamic countries. We want to expel all criminals with dual citizenship and deprive them of their Dutch nationality. We want to de-islamize our nation. Dear Friends, there is a lot of work to do. We, the defenders of freedom and security, have an historic duty. Our generation has been entrusted with a huge task: To oppose Islam and keep the flame of liberty burning. I say it without exaggeration: the future of human civilization depends on us. Now is a time when everyone in the West must do his duty. We are writing history here. So, let us do our duty. Let us stand with a happy heart and a strong spirit. Let us go forth with courage and save freedom! View quote
Geert Wilders
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