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Quotes About Burst

The second exploded like a bomb, all by itself.
~ Elizabeth Enright
What did I know about the horrors of the past? Did they leak into rooms like mist, under doors? Or shatter windows and burst directly into one's presence?
~ Elizabeth Kostova
she found herself blessing God for her creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life, but above all for His inestimable Love; out loud; in a burst of acknowledgement.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
and then (as if a lock had gone and the Spring had broken loose)
~ Alice Oswald
I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
~ Alan Alda
I don't really like to work with actors that work a lot and are very well established already. In a way, I like to nurture talent and have it burst on the scene.
~ Maiwenn
My dear boy,' Mr Wonka answered, 'if we don't come down at a terrific speed, we'll never burst our way back in through the roof of the factory. It's not easy to punch a hole in a roof as strong as that.' 'But there's a hole in it already,' said Charlie. 'We made it when we came out.' 'Then we shall make another,' said Mr Wonka. 'Two holes are better than one. Any mouse will tell you that.
~ Roald Dahl
Sometimes pus Sometimes a poem. Something always burst out. And always pain.
~ Yehuda Amichai
An incurable soul! You poor thing! I-330 burst out laughing. And her laughter splashed all over me, the whole delirium passed, and little sequins of laughter were flashing and how ... how wonderful it all was.
~ Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst
~ John Piper
his head burst in a blizzard of seeds that hung in the lamplight and drifted slowly to the ground like a tiny division of poison paratroopers.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Every serious deflation I've looked at is preceded by an asset bubble, and then it bursts.
~ Stanley Druckenmiller
A sense of electrical current was part of my own experience of being manic. The sensation that my mind was spinning and overheating would sometimes build to a sensation like an electrical short - a burst of light, a melting, or dissipating - and I'd get a metallic taste in my mouth, like when you lick a battery.
~ Ellen Forney
In her mind, men were no different than droughty weather or a sudden burst of rainless storm.
~ Robert Olmstead
Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!
~ Gary Paulsen
In 2000, just before the first dot-com bubble burst, it cost a whopping $5 million to launch a tech startup.
~ Peter Diamandis
The live broadcast began with a countdown. A few seconds in, a numbered balloon failed to burst. Let it not be shit, thought Strike, suddenly forgetting everything else in an upsurge of patriotic paranoia.
~ Robert Galbraith
It is a society in which the subservient appearance observed among us is dangerously deceptive. The occasional warning sign the dam is about to burst is most often ignored by our keepers.
~ Dwight E. Abbott
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
~ Henry Roth
The news should have terrified her, but it was difficult to be frightened of anything when she was sitting so close to Rom. 'I thought we had convinced him that I was leading a blameless life?' 'We had, till you burst out of that damnable cake.
~ Eva Ibbotson
You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I'm used to short distances and short bursts of energy; it was just fastest.
~ Shannon Miller
Are you saying a sorcerer could burst into flames?" "Mm, no, the body is too wet for that. He would more just . . . burst. Like a grilled sausage splitting its casing.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold