#burn

If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ↗

— Robert Southey

#burn #condensed #deeper #more #pungent

You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And tell him you love him. Preferably while in bed." I smirked and the tea almost came out of my nose. "He'd run like he was on fire. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#curran #ilona-andrews #kate #kate-daniels #magic-burns

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burning #crimes #reading #than #them

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. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot

If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down. ↗

— H. Rap Brown

#around #burn #come #down #gonna

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#air #always #angels #breaks #burden

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! ↗

— Robert Browning

#burn #cheeks #clutch #core #ecstasy

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#ambition #any #burning #grand #had

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

— Georg Buchner

#burn #cast #fingers #freedom #furnace

I am a big fan of the old Howard Hawks films from the 30s and 40s, I was a big Hepburn and Tracey fan for a while and Woody Allen films that are a very different kind of romantic comedy. ↗

— Edward Burns

#am #big #big fan #comedy #different