Direct Burning Incense

Famous quotes containing the words direct, burning and/or incense:

    “O wretched fool,
    That lov’st to make thine honesty a vice!
    O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,
    To be direct and honest is not safe.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “These people figured video was the Lord’s preferred means of communicating, the screen itself a kind of perpetually burning bush. “He’s in the de-tails,” Sublett had said once. “You gotta watch for Him close.””
    —William Gibson (b. 1948)

    “You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.”
    —John Ruskin (1819–1900)