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“Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning.”

Knows Together Knowledge Knowing Fit Mountain Noble Burning Misfortunes Honey Candle Serenity Serene Combs

Author:Sanai

“Each American embassy comes with two permanent features - a giant anti-American demonstration and a giant line for American visas. Most demonstrators spend half their time burning Old Glory and the other half waiting for green cards.”

Two Funny America Waiting Lines Half Glory Humorous Green Cards Burning Permanent Features Giants Demonstration Other Half Visa Embassy Anti-american Green Card Old Glory

Book:Holidays in Hell

Source: Holidays in Hell

“Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which had no greater savour than the fumes of burning money.”

People Firsts Funny Greater Succeed Humorous Burning Smoking Ritual Cigarette Cigar Minus Savour

Book:The Complete Unreliable Memoirs

Source: The Complete Unreliable Memoirs

“The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste.”

Men Mean Causes Air Sea Economic Waste Gains Importance Improvement Burning Desert Fuel Mastery Wire Mining Transmission Surpassing

Book:The Wireless Tesla

Source: The Wireless Tesla

“[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influenced me nearly so much as these two. I copied out from Humboldt long passages about Teneriffe and read them aloud on one of [my walking excursions].”

Long Two Book Science Natural Walking Structure Add Humble Noble Burning Contribution Passages Dozen Biographies Zeal Natural Science Excursions

Book:Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters

Source: Charles Darwin: His Life in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a Selected Series of His Published Letters

“And as we know now, and as I pointed out many times, the great plume of fire at the bottom of the Space Shuttle is actually dollar bills burning, and the most efficient method of destroying American dollar bills as has ever been devised by man.”

Knows Men Space Fire Walking Moon Method Bills Dollars Bottom Burning Destroying Efficient Star Gazing Space Shuttle Dollar Bills

Author:Dana Rohrabacher

“We're weird roman candles burning bright at both ends. At the end of the road's where this story begins. Where the green of the gulf meets the blue of the sea. What makes it all happen is still a mystery to me. But those crazy days and those crazy ways, we never want to undo. We'll be together, now and forever.”

Way Want Stills Ends Stories Happens Together Friendship Forever Mystery Sea Crazy Blue Green Burning Candle End Of The Road Burning Bright Candles Burning

Author:Jimmy Buffett

“You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.”

Giving Made Soul Dream Friendship Poverty Tears Taught Holes Satisfied My Soul Burning Thirst

Book:The Lyrics: Since 1962

Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962

“Opinionated writing is always the most difficult... simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling.”

Writing Feelings Difficult Morning Cold Flow Journalism Burning Crystals Printed Opinionated Retaining Morning After Printed Word Cold Morning

Author:Gavin Lyall

“I mean, I always think when you're an actor you have to be the guy running into the burning building rather than running out of it, if you want to make some noise as an actor.”

Ifs Thinking Want Mean Running Guy Actors Building Noise Burning Burning Buildings

Author:Dylan McDermott

“I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.”

Thinking Desire Direct Burning Burning Desire

Author:Vincent Cassel

“Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.”

People Records Selling Burning

Author:Tom DeLonge

“I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.”

Ends Hate I Hate Burning Shirts Chests Therapeutic

Author:Warwick Davis

“I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.”

Writing Desire Burning Symphony Burning Desire

Author:Danny Elfman

“I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the Reichstag I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the conference of our student organization and that is the only reason why I escaped arrest.”

Reason Home Left Morning Students Lucky Organization Train Burning Reason Why Conferences Berlin Morning After

Author:Klaus Fuchs

“But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.”

Interesting Issues Radio Burning Stakes Urgent

Author:Ira Glass

“When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.”

Knows Way Important School Law Desire Impact Burning Law School Burning Desire

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“I'm hidden in the scream when the virgin dies, I'm the ache in the belly when your baby cries, and I'm the burning sensation when the convict fries.”

Dies Evil Cry Baby Burning Sensations Scream Virgins Belly Ache Fries Convicts

Author:Alice Cooper

“All of creation is alive and conscious, and all of creation deserves our burning, churning, yearning love. All of it. Not just the people and creatures and things that we personally find beautiful and helpful and interesting. But everything. All of creation.”

People Beautiful Nature Interesting Alive Creation Creatures Conscious Deserve Burning Helpful Yearning Churning

Author:Rob Brezsny

“Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.”

Fire Tables Burning

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.”

Soul Poetry Written Pages My Soul Burning Coal Pouring Burning Coal

Book:Lyrics:1962-2012

Source: Lyrics:1962-2012

“Bridges are meant for burning, when the people and memories they join aren't the same.”

People Memories Burning Bridges Adages

Author:Jim Croce

“I don't need your organization, I've moved your mountains and I've marked you cards, but Eden is burning. You better get ready for elimination or else your hearts must have the courage of the changing of the guard.”

Needs Heart Religion Religious Ready Mountain Organization Moved Cards Burning Eden Elimination

Author:Bob Dylan

“For people who are displaced, you can reconstruct the story of your life from the objects you have access to, but if you don't have the objects then there are holes in your life. This is why people in Bosnia - if anyone was running back into a burning house it was to salvage photos.”

People Ifs Stories Running House Objects Access Holes Burning Bosnia Running Back Salvage Burning House

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.”

Stills Nature Burning Smoke Amazon

Author:Larry Gelbart

“Through the years as the fire starts to mellow, burning lines in the book of our lives. Though the binding cracks and the pages start to yellow, I'll be in love with you.”

Years Book Lines Fire Our Lives Love You Pages Romantic Burning Cracks Yellow Binding Through The Years Mellow

Author:Dan Fogelberg

“When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.”

Knows Heart Desire Fire Strange My Heart Kissing Romantic Burning Fire Burning

Author:Elvis Presley

“I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.”

Needs Heart I Can Two Sex Satisfied Burning Encounters Casual Two Hearts Burning Love

Author:Madonna Ciccone

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