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  • The roe is reputed to sleep for a thousand years and then suddenly rise in flames, particularly if it was smoking when it dozed off.

    Sleep   Flames   Years  
    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • One can imagine the look the two lovers exchanged; it was like a flame, for virtuous lovers have not a shred of hypocrisy.

    Flames   Two   Hypocrisy  
  • All the suns labor to kindle your flame and a microbe puts it out.

    "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
  • I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

    Flames   Color   Sky  
    Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.242, Vintage
  • But there can be no grave for Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson...Shall they not always live in Baker Street? Are they not there this moment, as one writes? Outside, the hansoms rattle through the rain, and Moriarty plans his latest devilry. Within, the sea-coal flames upon the hearth and Holmes and Watson take their well-won case...So they still live for all that love them well; in a romantic chamber of the heart, in a nostalgic country of the mind, where it is always 1895.

    Country   Rain   Writing  
  • Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

  • The closer you are, the brighter the flames in my heart.

    Romantic   Heart   Flames  
  • Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

    Love   Flames   Forever  
    Robert Southey, I. M. (1831). “Selections from the Poems of Robert Southey: Chiefly for the Use of Schools and Young Persons”, p.282
  • At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

    Flames   Grows  
  • When along the pavement, Palpitating flames of life, People flicker around me, I forget my bereavement, The gap in the great constellation, The place where a star used to be

    Stars   Flames   People  
    D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.4233, Delphi Classics
  • I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.

    "Banish the bikini, bring on the grill" By Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2004.
  • The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

    Light   Flames   Giving  
    Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”
  • one pale woman all alone, The daylight kissing her wan hair, Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare, With lips of flame and heart of stone.

    Women   Heart   Kissing  
    Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand
  • The fire has its flame and praises God. The wind blows the flame and praises God. In the voice we hear the word which praises God. And the word, when heard, praises God. So all of creation is a song of praise to God.

  • The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

  • We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

  • Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.

    Fashion   Fire   Flames  
    Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.147, Routledge
  • I find you in all small and lovely things; in the little fishes like flames in the green water, in the furred and stupid softness of bumble-bees fat as laughter, in all the chiming radiance of warmth and light and scent in the summer garden.

    Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”
  • I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. "They suit you.

    Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.67, Scholastic Inc.
  • Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

    'The Old Curiosity Shop' (1841) ch. 7 (Dick Swiveller)
  • For a country without a past is nothing, a word That, hardly spoken, loses its meaning, A perishable wall destroyed by flame, An echo of animal emotions.

    Country   Wall   Past  
  • I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take the wooden stick to the bread maker. He'd carve notches on our stick with his knife, one notch for each loaf of naan he'd pull for us from the tandoor's roaring flames. At the end of the month, my father paid him for the number of notches on the stick. That was it. No questions. No ID.

    Father   Flames   Knives  
    Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.104, Penguin
  • Each of has a natural instinct to rise like a flame. Lets nurture that instinct

  • Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them.

    Lying   Men   Talking  
    Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics
  • Dark times have come, but in spite of this we have not yet reached a twilight of the gods and even today we have no reason for doubt-filled pessimism, for the Wihinei of the Aryo-Germanics is too deep - even if unconscious and latent - rooted in every Aryo-Germanic soul and it awaits onl the call to awaken which will and must catch fire in order to instill the flame of inspiration in the Aryo-Germanic sensibility.

  • I tore the dreams from my head and tossed them in the flames. And the smoke smelled like my past, and it stung my eyes but I was too stubborn to blink.

    Dream   Eye   Past  
    Song: Sleepwalking, Album: Ghost, 2007
  • Let me leap naked through life's testing flame, And bear to lose, and yet endure to win.

    Life   Winning   Flames  
    Kenneth Rand (1915). “The Dreamer, and Other Poems”
  • Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

    Fire   Flames   Names  
    Song: Ain’t No Man Righteous
  • Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.

    Race   Flames   Cities  
    Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.33, Penguin
  • So…that’s like your pet monkey?” – Nick (The tiny horse snorted flames and whinnied at him.) “Easy, girl. You’d do well to show her respect. She can understand you, and she doesn’t take well to insults.” – Death “Sorry, Flicka. Didn’t mean to rattle your bridle.” – Nick

    Girl   Horse   Sorry  
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