Nostrils Burning Quotes

I thought of my father, alone and elsewhere, his head cradled in his hands. I thought of the day he'd punched a hole straight through the kitchen wall, thinking she'd be tucked away inside. All those places he'd looked and never found. Inside their mattress. In stained-glass windows. How he'd scoured the carpet for her stray hair and strung them all together with a ribbon; how he'd slept with that one lock swathed across his nostrils, hugging a pillow fitted with a nightshirt. How he'd dug up the backyard, stripped and sweating. How he'd played her favorite album on repeat and loud, a lure. How when we took up the carpet in my bedroom to find her, under the carpet was wood. Under the wood there was cracked concrete. Under the concrete there was dirt. Under the dirt there was a cavity of water. I swam down into the water with my nose clenched and lungs burning in my chest but I could not find the bottom and I couldn't see a thing. ~ Blake Butler

The smile that curled his lips was as arrogant as it was beautiful.

"You need to accept the fact that you're Orange and that you're always going to be alone because of it." A measure of calm had returned to Clancy's voice. His nostrils flared when I tried to turn the door handle again. He slammed both hands against it to keep me from going anywhere, towering over me.

"I saw what you want," Clancy said. "And it's not your parents. It's not even your friends. What you want is to be with him, like you were in the cabin yesterday, or in that car in the woods. I don't want to lose you, you said. Is he really that important?"

Rage boiled up from my stomach, burning my throat. "How dare you? You said you wouldn't - you said - "

He let out a bark of laughter. "God, you're naive. I guess this explains how that League woman was able to trick you into thinking you were something less than a monster."

"You said you would help me," I whispered.

He rolled his eyes. "All right, are you ready for the last lesson? Ruby Elizabeth Daly, you are alone and you always will be. If you weren't so stupid, you would have figured it out by now, but since it's beyond you, let me spell it out: You will never be able to control your abilities. You will never be able to avoid being pulled into someone's head, because there's some part of you that doesn't want to know how to control them. No, not when it would mean having to embrace them. You ~ Alexandra Bracken

Once again, I was conscious of the paradox of the compound: that here, at the heart of the unfolding events, we could catch no more than a glimpse of them. Fires were burning all over Dili; the smell was in our nostrils from the moment we wok up, and occasionally we could see columns of smoke. But the flames themselves, and the faces of the fire starters, were invisible. At the computers in the Unamet press room, we waited in turn to log on to the news websites and learn what was happening to us. ~ Richard Lloyd Parry

And the purple parted before it, snapping back like skin after a slash, and what it let out wasn't blood but light: amazing orange light that filled her heart and mind with a terrible mixture of joy, terror, and sorrow. No wonder she had repressed this memory all these years. It was too much. Far too much. The light seemed to give the fading air of evening a silken texture, and the cry of a bird struck her ear like a pebble made of glass. A cap of breeze filled her nostrils with a hundred exotic perfumes: frangipani, bougainvillea, dusty roses, and oh dear God, night-blooming cereus ... And rising above one horizon came the orange mansion of the moon, bloated and burning cold, while the sun sank below the other, boiling in a crimson house of fire. She thought that mixture of furious light would kill her with its beauty. ~ Stephen King

Stand back, akri-wolf! The Simi's gonna huff and puff and melt that door down. And you might not want to be too close when I do it, 'cause melted wolf is tough on the enamel and akra-Aimee might not like it if you turn into a puddle of bloody goo. Besides, burning wolf is kind of smelly to the Simi's delicate nostrils. (Simi) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon

The leaves drifted silently to the ground in the crisp autumn air. I inhaled deeply, the smell of burning bonfires far, far away enchanting my nostrils.
Autumn had come early this year and I was excited for the change in colors that had already begun to take over the trees of the forest that surrounded Grandmother's house. ~ Emma Rose Kraus

Bhikkus, all is burning. And what is the all that is burning?
The eye is burning, visible forms are burning, eye-consciousness is burning, eye-contact is burning; also whatever is felt as pleasant or painful or neither-painful-nor-pleasant that arises with eye-contact as its condition, that too is burning. Burning with what? Burning with the fire of greed, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion, with birth, ageing and death, with sorrow, with lamentation, with pain, grief and despair it is burning. ~ Gautama Buddha

Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors,
I want burning, burning, burning. ~ Rumi

If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says. ~ Lorrie Moore

You touched my flawed life so gently with love
burning upward in dark steady flame
burning me, burning me into healing. ~ Christy Brown

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people. ~ Heinrich Heine

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden. ~ Cormac McCarthy

A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me. ~ Cole Porter

I have fantasies of burning down an insurance company just so THEY have to make a claim ... ~ Alonzo Bodden

People who read poetry have heard about the burning bush, but when you write poetry, you sit inside the burning bush. ~ Li-Young Lee

You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed. ~ Rod Stewart

Why is there inner burning [antar daah, inner suffering] present? Inner Burning [Antardaah] is not dependent/based on merit or demerit karma (paap-punya). Inner Burning [Inner suffering] is indeed present in both suffering producing karmas, unpleasant (ashata vedaniya) as well as pleasant (shata vedaniya). Inner Burning [Inner suffering] is dependent upon the wrong belief. ~ Dada Bhagwan

But how did you come burning down like a wild needle, knowing just where my heart was? ~ Mary Oliver

I remember hearing a saying long ago: 'Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,' " I said. ~ Yoko Ogawa

The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually. ~ Mason Cooley

As a person, I've been in the business since 1969, and I never remember getting an honest count based upon how many records been sold for Burning Spear. ~ Burning Spear

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. ~ Paul J. Meyer

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels. ~ Jack Herer

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol. ~ Harry Houdini

Love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come. ~ Hadewijch

People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet. ~ Steve Jobs

If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them. ~ Mohammad Khatami

Burning desire is the eternal flame. ~ Douglas Horton

Country manners. Even if somebody phones up to tell you your house is burning down, they ask first how you are. ~ Alice Munro

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this? ~ Grover Norquist

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave. ~ Elizabeth Edwards

I am burning myself up and will always do so. ~ Jean Cocteau

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books. ~ Augustine Birrell

A single high NH4 peak, traced to biomass burning across North America, begins at the [Younger Dryas] onset. It is the largest biomass-burning episode from North American sources in the entire record. ~ Graham Hancock

They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grins at me. "And when I say you and Sean Kendrick, I mean you and Sean Kendrick. And by burning, I mean burning. ~ Maggie Stiefvater

Burning hearts are not nourished by empty heads ~ R.C. Sproul

When truth has no burning, then it is philosophy, when it gets burning from the heart, it becomes poetry. ~ Muhammad Iqbal

Moses was a forgotten man in the wilderness, But God had Moses right where he wanted him and met him at a burning bush. ~ Michael Catt

I'm battling monsters, I'm pulling you out of the burning buildings/ and you say I'll give you anything but you never come through. ~ Richard Siken

One of my realizations in such an earthy atmosphere was that many of the burning theological issues in the church were neither burning nor theological. ~ Brennan Manning

To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence. ~ Brian Tracy

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not. ~ Richard Kadrey

Burning natural gas will not save us from climate change. It's the same as burning any other carbon-based fuel. ~ Mark Ruffalo

Burning is no answer. ~ Camille Desmoulins

Burn brightly without burning out. ~ Richard Biggs

To bear children into this world is like carrying wood to a burning house. ~ Peter Wessel Zapffe

And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The sun and time. The sun and time and burning. Burning. ~ Ray Bradbury

Do not believe that living together before marriage guarantees the future. By burning certain stages, you risk burning love itself. Time needs to be respected gradually, just like the expressions of love. ~ Pope Benedict XVI

His speech is a burning fire. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne

Burn away and burn every burning sorrow that burns you like a burning star and awaken all that you would burn for to burn away every burning scar. ~ Robert M. Drake

Your torch of consciousness should be burning continuously; then there will not be any darkness. ~ Rajneesh

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy. ~ Terry Pratchett

Firemen don't talk about whether a burning warehouse is worth saving. ~ Sebastian Junger

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it ... it doesn't matter where your hands are. ~ Lou Holtz

I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me. ~ Garry Winogrand

Burning, Burning! Fire in the sky.
No way from the wasteland and we all gonna die. ~ Nick Mad

For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. ~ Geri Halliwell

A most burning question of time, though. It burns in every nook and cranny of the ethnological world, burning, bright, brightly, in the fullest blaze, and it burns all around, huge fire! and no one lifts a hand. ~ Adolf Bastian

I would sooner pluck one single brand from the burning than explain all mysteries. ~ Charles Spurgeon

From now on I will make burning my aim, For I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission. ~ Jerry Pournelle

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ~ Tyler Kent

The only church that illuminates is a burning church. ~ Buenaventura Durruti

The heart, when broken, is like sweet gums and spices when beaten; for as such cast their fragrant scent into the nostrils of men, so the heart, when broken, casts its sweet smell into the nostrils of God. ~ John Bunyan

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes. ~ Beryl Bainbridge

I have come to believe that anger and grudges are burning embers in the heart ... ~ Neil Peart

Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost. ~ Elliott Smith

It's easy to say 'no!' when there's a deeper 'yes!' burning inside. ~ Stephen Covey

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire? ~ Imran Khan

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire. ~ Rumi

It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money. ~ Tony Blair

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning. ~ Juliet Marillier

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved. ~ Jahangir Khan

When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling. ~ Arianna Huffington

There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real. ~ Napoleon Hill

I am not like
other people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself. ~ Charles Bukowski

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning. ~ Albert Schweitzer

Burning fossil fuels has given us the gift of seeing ourselves in new ways. But that very gift now enables us to see we've got to change our ways. ~ Sylvia Earle

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men ... ~ Wendell Berry

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was. ~ Jennifer Granholm

Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith. ~ Napoleon Hill

Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand. ~ Virginia Woolf

Do you smell something burning or is it me? ~ Joan Of Arc

Life consists of burning up questions. ~ Antonin Artaud

I like any music I can feel. ~ Burning Spear

He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out. ~ Ray Bradbury

Your lifeline ... oh, the burning stick. Right. Leo resisted the urge to set his hand ablaze and yell: BWAH HA HA! ~ Rick Riordan

May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you? ~ Jerry Smith

I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived." ~ Channing Tatum

Our hearts are lamps for ever burning ... ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you. ~ Bob Dylan

When you kill someone by chopping off their head, rolling 'em up in a carpet and burning it, you'd better make sure they're dead! ~ Colin Mochrie

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is natural for the immature to harm others.
Getting angry with them is like resenting a fire for burning. ~ Shantideva

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. ~ Wilferd Peterson

Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

My yearning is my cup, my burning thirst is my drink, and my solitude is my intoxication; I do not and shall not quench my thirst. But in this burning that is never extinguished is a joy that never wanes. ~ Khalil Gibran

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore. ~ Larry Gelbart