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Jai Ganesh

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Burning Quotes - II

Burning Quotes - II

1. My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer. - J. K. Rowling

2. I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other. - Abraham Lincoln

3. Confidence alone does not make peace, but acknowledging rights and confidence do. Failure to recognize these rights creates a sense of injustice; it keeps the embers burning under the ashes. - Yasser Arafat

4. No one can pretend to say that a fish is ever killed by heat, for many kinds of fish, in the middle of summer, and in the burning heat of the sun, do either play, as it were, on the surface of the water, or hide themselves under the leaves, weeds, or other substances at the bottom. - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

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

6. Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering. - George H. W. Bush

7. The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance. - Harry Houdini

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

9. I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing. - Jackie Joyner-Kersee

10. Sometimes you will do a close-up for a scene in the morning where you are totally distraught, then shoot the rest of that scene seven hours later. How do you hang on to that feeling all day without burning up, without going so far that you have nothing left to give when the cameras roll again? - Penelope Cruz

11. I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality. - Jodie Foster

12. I still feel like I have a lot to prove. My biggest burning question is 'How much more are you capable of?' - Drew Barrymore.

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