Lady Liberty and Sarah Palin are lit by the same torch.
A writer uses a pen instead of a scalpel or blow torch,
All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
From authors whom I read more than once I learn to value the weight of words and to delight in their meter and cadence -- in Gibbon's polyphonic counterpoint and Guedalla's command of the subjunctive, in Mailer's hyperbole and Dillard's similes, in Twain's invectives and burlesques with which he set the torch of his ferocious wit to the hospitality tents of the world's colossal humbug . . . I know no other way out of what is both the maze of the eternal present and the prison of the self except with a string of words.
Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.
Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.
Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates.
I used to hate old-timers who didn't praise the younger wrestlers, but you've got to pass the torch sometime. If you're old, that torch gets too heavy for you and you can't carry it, so it won't do you any good.
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.