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Quotes About Burnt

I'd feel wasted and burnt, having wasted my time and my body and my energy and y words and my soul.
~ Ned Vizzini
We never learnt the right lessons. We never went to the root of the problem. Once you start politicising religion, you play with fire and get burnt as well. Another lesson we did not learn is that Muslims are not homogenous.
~ Asma Jahangir
The fire had burnt so low that it was only a vague red glow in the night...out of the dark his voice came...
~ Vikram Chandra
the empty court is locked up. If all the injustice it has committed and all the misery it has caused could only be locked up with it, and the whole burnt away in a great funeral pyre—why
~ Charles Dickens
A poet is a flaming phoenix — burnt up with each and every poem.
~ Terri Guillemets
Is uniformity [of opinion] attainable? Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined, imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There is a moon shaped rictus in the streetlamp's globe where a stone has gone and from this aperture there drifts down through the constant helix of aspiring insects a faint and steady rain of the same forms burnt and lifeless.
~ Cormac McCarthy
She tossed him a small mirror so that he could see the results, and what he saw horrified him.  The boiling concoction left a deep trail of burnt skin that stretched from the crown of his head all the way to his chin – almost like an artificial sluice that burned his flesh to form a large rivulet that ran down the center of his face.
~ Harvey Havel
I shall write it in my diary to-night What? That a burnt child loves the fire
~ Oscar Wilde
The unpleasant, acrid smell of burnt poetry.
~ p g wodehouse
We knew that Red Deer would be a bad gig as soon as we entered the city limits, where a giant Shell sign with the S burnt out blinked at us from a sixty-foot pole. Welcome to HELL.
~ Unknown
I was condemned to be burnt myself recently, or my books were. An article in the _Catholic Herald_ said that my _His Dark Materials_ was far more worthy of the bonfire than Harry [Potter]; it was a million times more sinister. Naturally, I'm very proud of this distinction, and I asked the publishers to print it in the paperback of _The Subtle Knife_.
~ Philip Pullman
Well all right then. Since you own up you ain't smart enough tuh find out whut Ah'm talkin' 'bout, Ah'll tell you. Whut is it dat keeps uh man from gettin' burnt on uh red-hot stove—caution or nature?" "Shucks! Ah thought you had somethin' hard tuh ast me. Walter kin tell yuh dat." "If de conversation is too deep for yuh, how come yuh don't tell me so, and hush up?
~ Zora Neale Hurston
What's green and blue and yellow and black? A burnt peacock.
~ Unknown
THE CELTIC TWILIGHT by W. B. YEATS 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.
~ W.B. Yeats
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.
~ Beth Orton
a change of governance that could soon mean different heads lofted in punishment for the telling of different truths. She wanted to breathe the warning into all their ears: never let your true thought be known, for it is by truth that you are noosed and for truth burnt.
~ Rachel Kadish
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.
~ Unknown
Look at how far astray the man's adoration had led him—so many misguided betrayals, each of them a burnt offering at the altar of her memory. But now you could sense the dawning realization that he had built a flawed temple to a false god.
~ Unknown
Why should he be peaceful? I never was, nor his father either, when I knew him. The difference was that he was not afraid to be burnt.
~ Madeline Miller
It was love at first sight. Until reality struck like lightning and burnt up everything leaving me with nothing but scars.
~ Unknown
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
~ Matt Wagner
It was morning. Sunlight filtered in with the smell of burnt toast.
~ Unknown
_I_ boil it." Joseph entered last, closing the door behind them. "Last time, you burnt it." Connor glared at Joseph. "We were attacked! What would you have me tell the Abenaki? 'I cannae fight just now. I'm makin' candy. Would you like a wee taste?
~ Pamela Clare