When I'm struck by things, I want to hear more and find out more. I remember when Lana Del Rey was on 'SNL,' this supposedly disastrous performance. She's doing this pretentious torch song, and I thought, 'I don't know what she's doing, but it's really moving me.'

Greil Marcus

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G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn't mean that I have to change my religion.

Adnan Sami

Religion Change UN

Enter with the torch in the stadium. 80,000 people screaming. I was waiting downstairs for the start for 10 hours; I was so tired with the torch. I give the torch to the combined ski cross country that they win gold in Lillehammer in 1994.

Alberto Tomba

Art Wit Win

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Bierce

Patriotism Us Trio

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Angela Ruggiero

War Where Towards

This race is not about me trying to beat John Lewis. It is about carrying the torch and picking up the fight.

Angela Stanton-King

Car Yin Up

We just say things differently in Australia - like torch. I'd ask, 'Can I have the torch?' It seems to fall flat when I say, 'Can I have the flashlight?'

Anna Torv

Us Torch Things

I have run with the Olympic Torch during the 2012 summer games in London and the 2014 winter games in Sochi.

Ban Ki-moon

Wit Winter Win

In some ways, I'm in danger of doing too many things to be able to appreciate and enjoy them. I look forward to thinking back to carrying the Olympic torch, or going to the Royal Wedding, when I'm in the middle of the ocean on my own far from anywhere - that's when I'll relive those moments.

Ben Fogle

Wedding War Mom

We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own.

Ben Sweetland

Without Wit We Cannot

I would say at leaner times in the women's division, I feel like there were certain girls who tried to keep the torch going for women's wrestling. If I was one of those women then I feel like I did my job.

Beth Phoenix

Women Time Men

There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.

Bill Pullman

Great Wood Woo

I'd have to say that it kills me that there's a concern that 'Torchwood' has gone to America to become Americanised.

Bill Pullman

Wood Woo Torch

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

Billy Graham

Success Willing Will

I really do like seeing Bobby Lashley get the torch and exactly seeing what he can do with it.

Booker T

Wit Torch T

I've been amazed by the numbers that have come out to see the torch relay, so being a part of it is lovely.

Bryn Terfel

Love Art Torch

I think it makes a difference when the actors are enjoying it more than anything because we have a real blast on 'Torchwood.'

Burn Gorman

Yin Wood Woo

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Burn Gorman

Wood Woo Who

I had a great time doing 'Torchwood,' I really did.

Burn Gorman

Time Great Wood

I know in Britain with 'Doctor Who' all the classic actors, and the people who you'd really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that 'Torchwood' has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I'm just happy for good actors who want to be in sci-fi shows who love the genre.

Burn Gorman

Work Love Good

My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.

Carlene Carter

To be a Miss World is to carry a burning torch. It is like action carried out by one to illuminate the lives of many.

Catriona Gray

Torchwood''s never going to be as heavy an effects show as 'Doctor Who.'

Chris Chibnall

As if we didn't have enough fabulous actresses, it's a thrill to be joined by Wales's finest, Eve Myles. Having worked together on 'Torchwood,' it's a joy to be able to welcome her to 'Broadchurch.'

Chris Chibnall

To be looked up to as one of the Americans that's supposed to carry the torch, go to the major championships and get medals, that's a huge honour.

Christian Coleman

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

You find that you can have the best business in the most exciting industry, but if the execution, if the torch-holder, if the value-creator isn't there, then we don't make it happen.

Dan Levitan

All my life, I have been surrounded by the track. The week I was born, Dad took me to training. I do recall at some stage being pushed around in a pram on a track. I have a lot of inspiration from him. To see him carrying the Sydney Olympic torch really ignited my dream. As a coach, he knows the in and outs of race walking and technique.

Dane Bird-Smith

When former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari passed the torch to Zedillo, he knew that economic difficulty lay ahead but believed that the Yale-trained economist's impeccable technical credentials would be enough to maintain Mexico's stability.

Denise Dresser

B.B. King wanted people to carry the torch. He wanted people to keep that music alive, and he would talk about it.

Derek Trucks

The 'Soul Train' legacy and brand are of the utmost importance to me and to 'Soul Train's' millions of fans. After years of offers, I feel the time is now finally right to pass the torch.

Don Cornelius

As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.

Don Yaeger

Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.

Evangeline Lilly

A 'Torchwood' movie would be incredible. It would be sensational to have a beginning, a middle and an end in ninety minutes. A big walloping 'Torchwood' crunched into ninety minutes would be breathtaking.

Eve Myles

When I introduce you to somebody, his name is Big Pun. When I introduce you to somebody, his name is DJ Khaled. When I introduce you to an artist, her name is Remy Ma. If I introduce you to somebody, it's Cool and Dre or Scott Storch - people who change the face of the game.

Fat Joe

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

Felix Adler

As humans, we've always innovated our way out of problems, whether it was the first torch to light a dark cave or the steam engine that sparked a revolution.

Frans van Houten

When I'm struck by things, I want to hear more and find out more. I remember when Lana Del Rey was on 'SNL,' this supposedly disastrous performance. She's doing this pretentious torch song, and I thought, 'I don't know what she's doing, but it's really moving me.'

Greil Marcus

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and in a musical you could tell a lot of the story through songs.

Harvey Fierstein

In Torch Song, I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure, which also colors how you react to doing other things.

Harvey Fierstein

My earliest realization of the stir of national life was the torch parade in the Garfield campaign. On that occasion, I was not only allowed out that night, but I saw the lamps being filled and lighted.

Herbert Hoover

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

Jack Dee

The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.

James A. Forbes

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

James Cash Penney

Yesterday the flame of the Olympic torch was carried through our great state on its way to Salt Lake City.

Jane D. Hull

I feel like I'm a torchbearer for jazz, fostering its tradition but its future, too.

Jason Moran

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I do think the love-gone-wrong songs go over better, only because those melodies and those lyrics have a different feel that you can grasp on if you're a torch singer like myself.

Jennifer Holliday

There is power in naming racism for what it is, in shining a bright light on it, brighter than any torch or flashlight. A thing as simple as naming it allows us to root it out of the darkness and hushed conversation where it likes to breed like roaches. It makes us acknowledge it. Confront it.

Jesmyn Ward

When I was a kid, there was this neighborhood beer and wine store that sold old comics for a nickel a piece. I'd load up on old books whenever we went on vacation. Yeah, I have a lot of fond memories of riding in the back of the ol' station wagon and reading 'Mystery in Space' and 'Strange Adventures' as we headed up to Torch Lake.

Jim Starlin