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Quotes About Flaming

in a winter fireplace burns the fantasy of spring — wildflowers flaming across a lush wooded landscape
~ Terri Guillemets
I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".
~ Nan Goldin
It is not too fantastic to say that he desired them with some of the absolute passion that characterised the exposed and flaming heart of Jesus which hung on Emilie's wall. Since this narrative has tried to avoid the canonisation of the Herr Direktor, the idea of the sensual Oskar as the desirer of souls has to be proved.
~ Thomas Keneally
The wayward morality of the country's "flaming youth" was blamed, at least in part, on their easy access to enclosed automobiles, which one outraged critic described as "bordellos on wheels.
~ Harold Schechter
I think of how the mystics read by the light of their own bodies. What a world of darkness that must have been to read by the flaming hearts that turn into heaps of ash on the altar, how everything in the end is made equal by the wind. — Timothy Liu, from "Vox Angelica," The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University, 2000
~ Timothy Liu
The flaming ruins of a five-alarm sunset smoldered in the window behind her, which was currently pointing west. "It
~ Lev Grossman
One can't help but marvel at the variety of ways that women had devised to make us look like flaming idiots.
~ Lisa Kleypas
The perennial temptation is to creep under the angel's flaming sword, to try to create a heaven on earth.
~ Peter Kreeft
The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudden flaming word, In clanging space a moment heard, Troubling the endless reverie. -from "The Song of the Happy Shepherd
~ W.B. Yeats
The wandering earth herself may be Only a sudden flaming word, In clanging space a moment heard, Troubling the endless reverie.
~ W.B. Yeats
But art is not simply works of art; it is the spirit that knows Beauty, that has music in its being and the color of sunsets in its headkerchiefs; that can dance on a flaming world and make the world dance, too.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
It came in a vision - a man appeared on a flaming pie and said unto them, 'From this day forward you are Beatles with an A.' Thank you Mister Man, they said, thanking him.
~ John Lennon
He spake: and to confirm his words, out flew Millions of flaming swords, drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim; the sudden blaze Far round illumin'd hell: highly they rag'd Against the Highest, and fierce with grasped Arms Clash'd on thir sounding shields the din of war, Hurling defiance toward the Vault of Heav'n.
~ John Milton
The River Mogami has drowned Far and deep Beneath its surging waves The flaming sun of summer
~ Matsuo Bash?
I like my beer cold, my TV loud, and my homosexuals flaming.
~ Matt Groening
What's tequila, blackberry brandy, and rum?" "Culo de fuego. A flaming asshole.
~ Paul Levine