Famous quotes containing the words direct, burning and/or incense:
“Forty years after a battle it is easy for a noncombatant to reason about how it ought to have been fought. It is another thing personally and under fire to have to direct the fighting while involved in the obscuring smoke of it.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound
In the throat, burning and turning.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)