John Adams
John Adams

You bid me burn your letters. But I must forget you first.

Ryan Adams
Ryan Adams

She's got the brown eyes, yeah, and they're pretty as hell,
And they'll burn through your shirt if you're holding her still.
She's got a lighter, and a lit cigarette,
And if you're making her smile, that's just as high as you can get.

Juhani Aho
Juhani Aho

WHEN father bought the lamp, or a little before that, he said to mother:
"Hark ye, mother—ought n't we to buy us a lamp?"
"A lamp? What sort of a lamp?"
"What! Don't you know that the storekeeper who lives in the market town has brought from St. Petersburg lamps that actually burn better than ten päreä? [1] They've already got a lamp of the sort at the parsonage."
"Oh, yes! Is n't

it one of those things which shines in the middle of the room so that we can see to read in every corner, just as if it was broad daylight?"
"That's just it. There's oil that burns in it, and you only have to light it of an evening, and it burns on without going out till the next morning."
"But how can the wet oil burn?"

Rabi'a al-Adawiyya
Rabi'a al-Adawiyya

O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell
and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise.
But if I worship You for Your Own sake,
grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.

Rabi'a al-Adawiyya
Rabi'a al-Adawiyya

I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to Allah. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of Allah.

Sherman Alexie
Sherman Alexie

… there are some children who aren't really children at all, they're just pillars of flame that burn everything they touch. And there are some children who are just pillars of ash, that fall apart when you touch them…

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

Martin Amis
Martin Amis

They can't ban or burn Larkin's books. What they can embark on is the more genteel process of literary demotion.

Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson

And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them.
We can't burn them or melt them or make them overflow. We can't flood them or blow them up or turn them out.
But we are reaching for them.
We are reaching for them.

Ilona Andrews
Ilona Andrews

And then what?"
"I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.