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We burnt the salt and the herbs (in America it is correct to drop the h in herbsit does sound odd.) — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle
I love the scent of burnt flesh in the morning.
— Sgt. Slaughter
A million candles burnt in him without his being at the trouble of lighting a single one
— Virginia Woolf
Why are old maps always burnt?
— Chelsea Peretti
The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life ... My life began by flickering out.
— Ivan Goncharov
It is better to have burnt & lost, then to never have barbecued at all.
— William Shakespeare
I want to hold a CD I didn't burn. I hate burnt CDs.
— Jonathan Davis
He left his footprints burnt into my heart.
— Berneen Vidra
Mr. Firefighter Derek, please douse my friend's fiery hole with your fire hose. Nobody likes a burnt burger.
— K.M. Golland
Their methods were especially crude and most of these former friends were now born again model citizens; lobotomized; or burnt out shells.
— H.M. Forester
You never replace a great scholar who retires. If you try to do that, you end up with burnt-out volcanoes.
— Guido Calabresi
Hate smells of burnt dead fireworks
— David Mitchell
The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne,Burnt on the water. — William Shakespeare
We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals.
— Agatha Christie
The unpleasant, acrid smell of burnt poetry.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt.
— Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden
You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying in the road.
— Richard Price
I burnt myself out of skating. I was ready to focus on being a mom.
— Kristi Yamaguchi
Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
— Camille Claudel
you feel like a field of sugar canes after the harvest - burnt out, all cutting edges with no sweetness left inside.
— Aliette De Bodard
See? I harvested your seed; I burnt your sperm. Now you can't help yourself. You're mine.
— Jaxy Mono
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
— Gautama Buddha
Moth to a flame. Somehow we both got burnt.
— Teresa Mummert
It was like coming home to a place that he held dear and finding that the wood had burnt to the ground and the house was in ruins.
— Courtney Milan
When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
— Amy Lowell
The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
— Ray Bradbury
Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.
— Thomas Carlyle
I get burnt in the sun, so there's no point me getting pecs for when I take my shirt off in the summer.
— Brian O'Driscoll
That dawn is seared on my memory, burnt there by the flames of a hall-burning. There was nothing we could do except watch.
— Bernard Cornwell
Now your burnt ashes float to mingle with others And as I wait for another day I keep singing another song How did I go astray!
— Lindiwe Mabuza
All our works must pass through fire. Some of them will be burnt out and those that are left will be our good and useful works for the Kingdom of God
— Sunday Adelaja
Love ... is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols.
— Geraldine Jewsbury
The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces - those, I think, are the sensations of grief.
— Catherynne M Valente
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.
— Ingeborg Bachmann
Why do I need clothes?" she said as she found the black lacy pair she'd been looking for. "Two words -- burnt eggs.
— Paige Tyler
In his eyes I forget time, burnt diaries, midnight, and ballads. I forget that I am growing older. One day I will be an old woman.
— Abigail George
David christened it: "This is the house of Yahzeh ha-Elohim [1 ahveh of the Gods], and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel" (xxii, 1)
— Joseph Wheless
Theres no stink more sorrorful than the stink of wet, burnt paper. It means: the end.
— Terry Pratchett
I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.
— Qin Shi Huang
He left his hoofprints burnt into my heart
— Berneen Vidra
Maybe that's how I'll know I've found true love--when I find a man who will eat burnt biscuits and dry pork chops.
— Sarah Loudin Thomas
Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.
— Euginia Herlihy
Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A burnt child dreads the fire.
— Aleister Crowley
Arson, after all, is an artificial crime ... A large number of houses deserve to be burnt.
— H.G.Wells
A linguist who specialised in the languages of incense and burnt offerings, of moths and radial cremations.
— Benjanun Sriduangkaew
They came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to die.
— Stephen King
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
— Dolly Parton
Our moon," he answered, "is not like yours-the old cinder of a burnt-out world; her beams embalm the dead, not corrupt them.
— George MacDonald
A burnt finger remember the fire.
— Alice Walker
I thought my fire was out,and stirred the ashes ... .
I burnt my fingers. — Antonio Machado
If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
A pencil in my hand, its secret life / is charcoal, the wood already burnt, / a sacrifice.
— Marianne Boruch
Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
— Virginia Woolf
I put her burnt bones into my mouth and swallowed them whole.
— Cheryl Strayed
I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.
— Shannon Hoon
Dear friend, I have searched all nightthrough each burnt paper,
but I fear I will never find
the formula to let you die — Leonard Cohen
Get burnt like a candle, very hard to handle,Do miracles in Nikes like Jesus did in sandals. — MF Grimm
When I came to town and saw the price of diesel went above regular gas, that burnt me up.
— Ron Ziegler
I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.
— Robbie Williams
The burnt child dreads the fire.
— Ben Jonson
A burnt child loves the fire.
— Oscar Wilde
Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal.
— Hart Crane
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
— Herodotus
We were watching telly the night Nan burnt the house down.
— Celine Kiernan
What pleases the LORD more: burnt offerings and sacrifices or obedience to his voice? It is better to obey than to sacrifice.
— Rick Warren
...wary as any burnt child with an unfamiliar fire to contend with.
— Suzette Haden Elgin
Christians have burnt each other, quite persuaded. That all the Apostles would have done as they did.
— Lord Byron
The stars fell one by one into his eyes and burnt.
— Frank O'Hara
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
— Joan Of Arc
A burnt dog dreads the fire.
— Willa Cather
