#burn

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#desire #even #how #kill #live

This is my sixth series, and I'm burned out wondering if a show is going to change my life. Don't get me wrong, I love when people recognize my work. But I've given up worrying about whether it'll be seen by two people or two million or 22 million. ↗

— Charlotte Ross

#burned #change #get #given #going

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#burn #compromise #country #down #either

I will burn, but this is a mere event. We shall continue our discussion in eternity. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#continue #discussion #eternity #event #i

It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much. ↗

— Billy Sheehan

#also #because #burning #burning desire #compensation

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. ↗

— John W. Snow

#adequate #advantage #been #burn #clean

This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. And you sit there and you want to figure out why did she make these choices? How did she live such a life? ↗

— Leelee Sobieski

#burned #choice #choices #did #figure

David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology. ↗

— Terry Southern

#anthology #best #burnett #david #edited

It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. ↗

— Robert Southey

#condensed #deeper #more #sunbeams #words

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. ↗

— Klaus Fuchs

#arrest #because #berlin #burning #catch