Burning

Famous quotes containing the word burning:

    “These people figured video was the Lord’s preferred means of communicating, the screen itself a kind of perpetually burning bush. “He’s in the de-tails,” Sublett had said once. “You gotta watch for Him close.””
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)

    “He is keeping a candle burning in a shrine
    where nobody comes,
    there must be some mystery
    in the air
    about him.
    I am almost afraid to think to myself,
    why,
    he is there.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The principal saloon was the Howlin’ Wilderness, an immense log cabin with a log fire always burning in the huge fireplace, where so many fights broke out that the common saying was, “We will have a man for breakfast tomorrow.””
    —For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)