I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.
A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest.
I'm a weak man, Navani. I really am. If I give myself a few feet of leeway, I burst through all of my prohibitions.
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.
The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
Sgt. Donny Donowitz: We punch those goons out, take their machine guns, and burst in there blasting!
Envy Adams: You just headbutted my boyfriend so hard he burst.
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Each loved one went silently down; bubbles bursting leaving behind images they held to stick on the glass of memory.
Emotional states are fairly quick bursts of neuronal gossip. Traits, on the other hand, are more like the neuronal equivalent of committed relationships.
When I was bringing up a child, I taught myself to write in very short, concentrated bursts. If I had a weekend, or a week, I'd do unbelievable amounts of work.
It has been my experience that guilt can burst through the smallest breach and cover the landscape, and abide in it in pools and danknesses, just as native as water.
Virtually every real breakthrough in technology had a bubble which burst, left a lot of people broke who'd invested in it, but also left the infrastructure for this next golden age, effectively.
Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
You know," he said, "every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.
In spite of my suffering, at the thought that I was sure to end up by killing myself, I cried aloud and burst into tears.
There are so many people. It is easy to forget how full the world is of people, full to bursting, and each of them imaginable and consistently misimagined.
