A burnt child loves the fire.
But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened.
The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life. . . . My life began by flickering out.
The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.
Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!
Why are old maps always burnt?
Wouldn't it be a helluva joke if all this were really burnt cork and you people were being tolerant for nuthin'?
Women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful.