Top 220 Burn Quotes

My career has been a slow burn with many peaks and valleys.

Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?

Thing is, I don’t really like free time. People are always warning me that I’m going to burn out. But the truth is, the only thing that tires me out is hearing people tell me that.

If you want to humble an empire, it makes sense to maim its cathedrals. They are symbols of its faith, and when they crumple and burn, it tells us we are not so powerful and we can’t be safe.

It is a distinct and an honor to work with the august Regina King. I would call her Queen King. This woman is one of our treasures. She’s an actor’s actor. She has craft to burn. She’s a craftsman who knows what she is doing, and she’s got soul.

I once had money to burn. I’d fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

The enemy of successful long-term freezing is air. When air meets food, dehydration occurs, leading to freezer burn. With delicate proteins like fish, freezer burn can be downright fatal, ruining both texture and flavor.

At an individual level just as much as a corporate level, this notion of if you’re not really passionate about the work you’re doing in a world of mounting pressure, you’re going to experience more and more stress. You’re going to burn out. You’re going to become marginalized.

When I was shooting for the film ‘No Problem,’ there was a fire on the sets and I had some burn injuries in my leg.

You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.

Founders go wrong when they start to believe their business plan will materialize as written. I advise entrepreneurs to burn their business plan – it’s simply too dangerous to the health of your business.

Every girl is a singer. I wanted to learn the solos and play lead guitar. I would meticulously teach myself solos so when dudes were like, ‘Oh, you’re a girl, you can’t play guitar,’ I could rip these insane Telecaster blues solos and tell them, ‘Yeah, I can burn up a fret board.’

Cargo ships typically burn dirty fuel that releases pollutants like nitrous oxide and sulfur dioxide, which can cause various cancers and childhood asthma for people living in port cities.

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me – I never retreat.

Some people burn out, and some people like Clint Eastwood, he was a wild, international movie star in his 30s, and he’s doing the best work of his life now. Go figure.

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

It’s OK to burn a Bible, that’s OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that’s all right. But just, you know, for heaven’s sake, don’t say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion.

I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.

Anyone in the humor business isn’t thinking clearly if he doesn’t surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity – or you burn yourself out.

My teens and 20s were spent lying on sheets of tinfoil in the weak English sun, covered in baby oil. In Greece and France I would burn, then turn a dark brown.

I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won’t matter if I get this guy out.

I received a phone call; my agent got a phone call from Ryan Murphy saying he wanted to talk to me… And he basically outlined ‘American Horror Story’ for me and said that there’s a character named Larry the Burn Guy, and I’d like you to play it.

I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don’t want to burn out.

Byrne’s Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

All of the good things that surround art – you have to embrace the idea that it could be a complete disaster. I think that’s what gives it its artistic sparkle is that it really could crash and burn at any moment because you’re going out on a limb and being very personal.

English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating their fathers and trying to burn down everything they ever did.

I first began to realize that it was time to leave my job when the sight of my manager’s telephone number on my screen made my heart contract and burn.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

My crash and burn over drugs and alcohol is very well known; I’ve never, ever hidden that story. If there are people who would not vote for me because of that history, I understand.

Just as it is fire’s nature to burn, it is meditation’s nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment and transport you to a higher plane.

The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.

I don’t burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.

Every truth ever discovered, each new spiritual light that will ever burn bright has already been seeded in our consciousness.

I just work out hard enough that, if I’m craving something, I eat it and know I’m going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.

We’re all entitled to make mistakes. I’m not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I’m gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn’t impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

Wildfires can leave the land with burn scars that last for years.

We’re living in a time where I think most people are wanting someone to invite them respectfully to a policy position, not try to just slash and burn the other person.

Executives don’t burn out and leave when they feel deep satisfaction. They don’t create the human detritus that disgruntled managers do.

I like to feel the burn of the audience’s eyes when I’m whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

It turns out that many of the Trump voters who had said they wanted to burn it all down meant it, and they are taking to the task with great relish.

You don’t want to burn any bridges, but you also want to make sure you leave your character bridges wide open and you’re never seen as one particular thing, or that’s who you’ll be, unfortunately, for the rest of your career.

Self-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That’s why many artists crash and burn, because they can’t handle the attention and the financial implications of every brushstroke.

Reactionary movements can’t sustain themselves unless they find something new to catch and burn on.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

I’ll be the first one to tell you I burn coal… That fossil generation and the nuclear generation, frankly, is necessary in order for me to provide power.

And we have abundant natural energy resources in the country. We haven’t been taking adequate advantage of them, and we can burn coal in a clean way; we could improve the grid.

These days with the web, you can burn out a character really quick.

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won’t care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don’t make much fuss.

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

I need to be bad. I don’t want to burn out. I also don’t want to be a person who is always performance-oriented. I also want to have some fun.

I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It’s the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.

I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.

For there to be new growth of a conservative movement, of a right center party, the one that I joined in 1988, it needs to burn to the ground.

If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it’s a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it’s not really popular with the people.

Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That’s great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something?