Fire Quotes

‘Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.’ – Ann Landers

‘In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.’ – Albert Schweitzer

‘Focus on what lights a fire inside of you and use that passion to fill a white space. Don’t be afraid of the challenges, the missteps, and the setbacks along the way. What matters is that you keep going.’ – Kendra Scott

‘There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.’ – Sam Walton

‘The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.’ – Plutarch

‘Love is friendship set on fire.’ – Jeremy Taylor

‘The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘We feel free when we escape – even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.’ – Eric Hoffer

‘Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.’ – Buddha

‘Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.’ – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

‘The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.’ – Ferdinand Foch

‘Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.’ – Ludwig van Beethoven

‘Always remember that your calmness under fire is your best defense in any argument or discussion.’ – Robert Greene

‘Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.’ – Arnold H. Glasow

‘It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.’ – Frederick Douglass

‘Bitcoin is a swarm of cyber hornets serving the goddess of wisdom, feeding on the fire of truth, exponentially growing ever smarter, faster, and stronger behind a wall of encrypted energy.’ – Michael J. Saylor

‘Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.’ – Bruce Lee

‘Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?’ – George Carlin

‘Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.” – Bill Maher

‘There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.’ – Vincent Van Gogh

‘Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.’ – Mitch Kapor

‘Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.’ – John Wesley

‘I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn’t park anywhere near the place.’ – Steven Wright

‘If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.’ – Emily Dickinson

‘Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.’ – Jorge Luis Borges

‘Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.’ – Delmore Schwartz

‘A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don’t fire cannons to call attention to their shining – they just shine.’ – Dwight L. Moody

‘The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction is akin to setting fire to our lifeboat.’ – Johan Rockstrom

‘I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, ‘You’re gonna have to move, you’re blocking a fire exit.’ As though if there was a fire, I wasn’t gonna run. If you’re flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.’ – Mitch Hedberg

‘I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.’ – Mia Hamm

‘Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?’ – Thomas J. Watson

‘Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.’ – Robert Frost

‘Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.’ – Bernard Williams

‘When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.’ – Dylan Thomas

‘When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive.’ – George W. Bush

‘Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.’ – George Washington

‘At forty-five degrees, the sky will burn. Fire to approach the great new city; in an instant, a great scattered flame will leap up, when one will want to get evidence from the Normans.’ – Nostradamus

‘Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.’ – Roger de Rabutin

‘Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.’ – Martha Graham

‘Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.’ – Amory Lovins

‘Love in its essence is spiritual fire.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.’ – Bob Nelson

‘Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.’ – William Hazlitt

‘I’m always trying to show versatility. I’m juggling, and I’m flipping fire, and I’m chewing gum and rhyming at the same time… on a unicycle, while playing the drums.’ – MF Doom

‘Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.’ – William Shakespeare

‘There’s a great phrase, written in the ’70s: ‘The definition of today’s AI is a machine that can make a perfect chess move while the room is on fire.’ It really speaks to the limitations of AI. In the next wave of AI research, if we want to make more helpful and useful machines, we’ve got to bring back the contextual understanding.’ – Fei-Fei Li

‘Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.’ – Dante Alighieri

‘I’d rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.’ – Tom Watson

‘It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.’ – Frank Zappa

‘When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.’ – Abraham Kuyper

‘My first red carpet was the Met Gala, which just feels like a baptism by fire.’ – Rachel Zegler

‘Cooking is one of the strongest ceremonies for life. When recipes are put together, the kitchen is a chemical laboratory involving air, fire, water and the earth. This is what gives value to humans and elevates their spiritual qualities. If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory.’ – Laura Esquivel

‘To love the one who loves you, To admire the one who admires you, In a word, to be the idol of one’s idol, Is exceeding the limit of human joy; It is stealing fire from heaven.’ – Delphine de Girardin

‘Liberalism is a cancer; it’s a forest fire; it destroys every single thing it touches.’ – Dan Bongino

‘The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.’ – Tom Mann

‘For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.’ – George Santayana

‘Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.’ – Richard Steele

‘Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.’ – Lord Byron

‘It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.’ – John Burroughs

‘Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.’ – Roy L. Smith

‘So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!’ – J. R. R. Tolkien

‘If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.’ – Winston Churchill

‘There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.’ – Gamal Abdel Nasser

‘Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm.’ – Carlo Collodi

‘We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.’ – George Sand

‘Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.’ – Terry Pratchett

‘We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.’ – George Orwell

‘There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.’ – John Steinbeck

‘Clay is a very interesting and fundamental material: it’s earth, it’s water, and – with fire – it takes on form and life.’ – Rithy Panh

‘Technology is, of course, a double edged sword. Fire can cook our food but also burn us.’ – Jason Silva

‘There’s nothing wrong with the car except that it’s on fire.’ – Murray Walker

‘The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘Last night I slept like a log. I woke up in the fire place.’ – Tommy Cooper

‘Cold and fire has a way of creeping into the tiniest crack in your courage and finding that coward.’ – Tim Kennedy

‘The brighter the fire in your belly to achieve something special, the more hurts you’ll have.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.’ – Joan Miro

‘My passion and fire run deep through my veins, my blood, there’s no doubt about that.’ – Carolyn Aronson

‘The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.’ – Nikola Tesla

‘When I’m ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.’ – Mr. T

‘A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.’ – Anais Nin

‘Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.’ – Joel Osteen

‘The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.’ – Dave Barry

‘People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.’ – Pauline Phillips

‘If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.’ – Robert Fulghum

‘To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.’ – Victor Hugo

‘What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.’ – Hippocrates

‘Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.’ – Abbie Hoffman

‘I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‘The Big Trail’ had been a success and launched me as a star.’ – John Wayne

‘The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.’ – Pamela Hansford Johnson

‘If the Lord comes and burns – as you say he will – I am not going away; I am going to stay here and stand the fire, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego! And Jesus will walk with me through the fire and keep me from harm.’ – Sojourner Truth

‘Time is the fire in which we burn.’ – Gene Roddenberry

‘There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.’ – Washington Irving

‘Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.’ – Mark Twain

‘There are brilliant out lesbians and gay men and bisexuals and transgendered people and heterosexuals keeping the fire of change alive. Not a day goes by when I don’t feel grateful to them for their work.’ – Jasmine Guy

‘Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.’ – Edmund Burke

‘The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire – the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.’ – Helena Blavatsky

‘I’m a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what the hunt was like. It’s not erudite; it’s not intellectual. I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker, and tell stories about the stuff I’ve been through. And I’m still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.’ – Gary Paulsen

‘Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.’ – Joan Crawford

‘Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.’ – Thomas Merton

‘Genius is talent set on fire by courage.’ – Henry Van Dyke

‘Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.’ – Heraclitus

”Boy,’ ‘October,’ ‘War,’ ‘The Unforgettable Fire’ and ‘The Joshua Tree,’ those records, they’re part of my musical DNA and structure.’ – Taylor Hawkins

‘It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.’ – Aesop

‘Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.’ – Nostradamus

‘The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don’t care what anybody says. We don’t think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.’ – Fred Hampton

‘Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.’ – Whitney Wolfe Herd

‘I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that’s not too new.’ – Robert W. Service

‘Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.’ – Edward Young

‘The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.’ – Voltaire

‘These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.’ – Henry Hudson

‘Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It’s a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.’ – Gary Gygax

‘I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won’t let me do. Like they won’t set fire to me. They won’t like let me jump off a 20 story building. There are certain big stunts that it’s just impossible to get insurance to let me do, but for the most part I’d say I do probably 75% of my stuff.’ – Alex O’Loughlin

‘When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.’ – Hal Borland

‘I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.’ – Deion Sanders

‘The BJP is trying to spread fire and violence across the country, and there is only one force that can stop it – the workers of the Congress and its leaders.’ – Rahul Gandhi

‘In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.’ – Joseph Smith, Jr.

‘Out of the frying pan, into the fire.’ – Tertullian

‘Now I begin to be a disciple… Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment… come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.’ – Ignatius of Antioch

‘Many years ago, large packs of wolves roamed the countryside in Ukraine, making travel in that part of the world very dangerous. These wolf packs were fearless. They were not intimidated by people nor by any of the weapons available at that time. The only thing that seemed to frighten them was fire.’ – Joseph B. Wirthlin

‘And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.’ – John Donne

‘Some days you’re the fire hydrant, and some days you’re the dog.’ – Parker Conrad

‘It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.’ – Horace

‘The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.’ – Edgar Allan Poe

‘Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.’ – Thomas Mann

‘I’m still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.’ – Bobby Seale

‘I love Korean rice and Korean food in general. Korean barbecues are cool – there’s a table with a hole in it with fire coming through, and we throw meat on it.’ – Son Heung-min

‘I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.’ – Charlie Sheen

‘Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

‘I’m just fire.’ – Lil Yachty

‘What being a socialist means is… that you hold out… a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not based on greed… but on cooperation… where human beings can own the means of production and work together rather than having to work as semi-slaves to other people who can hire and fire.’ – Bernie Sanders

‘I was the first woman to burn my bra – it took the fire department four days to put it out.’ – Dolly Parton

‘Money is in some respects life’s fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.’ – P. T. Barnum

‘Fire itself is very beautiful, and there’s an attachment to fire that firefighters have.’ – Matthew Desmond

‘You can’t put out fire with fire.’ – Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

‘Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children’s faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.’ – Sara Teasdale

‘Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.’ – H. G. Wells

‘Praised be You, my Lord, through Brother Fire, through whom You light the night, and he is beautiful and playful and robust and strong.’ – Francis of Assisi

‘The more living patterns there are in a place – a room, a building, or a town – the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.’ – Christopher Alexander

‘Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire – you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.’ – Denis Waitley

‘But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.’ – W. E. B. Du Bois

‘It takes two flints to make a fire.’ – Louisa May Alcott

‘The inflated imitations of gold and silver, which after the rapture are thrown into the fire, all is exhausted and dissipated by the debt. All scrips and bonds are wiped out. At the fourth pillar dedicated to Saturn, split by earthquake and flood: vexing everyone, an urn of gold is found and then restored.’ – Nostradamus

‘Throwing money on the fire is normally not the solution to every problem. You put the fire out by listening to the people who are smarter than you are.’ – Shahid Khan

‘Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I’ve been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I’m just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.’ – Angie Stone

‘It is a proud tradition and fighting trait of our army and people to rise up like mountains and go through fire and water to unfailingly carry through the party’s orders and instructions.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘If ‘Chicago Fire’ goes for a long run, maybe I’ll look for a place, but in my line of work, you can’t throw your eggs into one basket because you might have to move. I’m not big on ‘things,’ though, so I don’t own TVs, couches or cars because I wouldn’t know where to put them.’ – Taylor Kinney

‘If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.’ – Karl Kraus

‘The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that’s unstoppable. You can’t get through it, you know.’ – Alicia Keys

‘I’m just calm under fire. I’m not intimidating at all.’ – Keenen Ivory Wayans

‘Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.’ – Jose Marti

‘I want to eat hot wings and get my mouth burned. People love to see people’s mouths on fire and sweaty and having to drink milk.’ – Heidi Gardner

‘A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.’ – Reinhard Bonnke

‘I’ve lost a little bit of my fire… I don’t want to say I’ve lost my passion.’ – Roger Clemens

‘Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.’ – Samuel Johnson

‘Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it’s been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.’ – Gene Green

‘Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.’ – Paul Valery

‘There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.’ – George Eliot

‘The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.’ – John Legend

‘The more people that learn about you, even if you’re an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.’ – Gerard Way

‘Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.’ – Richard Bach

‘I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can’t stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘A hard copy? It’s fire. People want vinyl and cassette tapes – it’s just cool to be able to touch it and feel it.’ – Tierra Whack

‘My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn’t deter her.’ – Loni Anderson

‘Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?’ – Afeni Shakur

‘Love is the fire that warms our lives with unparalleled joy and divine hope. Love should be our walk and our talk.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘People couldn’t understand why my mama would have this blind kid out doing things like cutting wood for the fire. But her thing was: He may be blind, but he ain’t stupid.’ – Ray Charles

‘People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.’ – Christian Nestell Bovee

‘If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.’ – Pitbull

‘Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.’ – Solomon Ibn Gabirol

‘Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch.’ – Douglas Brinkley

‘When the whole world is globalized, you’re going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.’ – Rene Girard

‘When I go to Fire Island, it’s always sort of the same thing. Everyone is coexisting, and isn’t that nice? But also, the risk of people co-opting what is a queer invention is okay, as long as it’s not for capital.’ – Bowen Yang

‘Genius is initiative on fire.’ – Holbrook Jackson

‘Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.’ – Taylor Caldwell

‘It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: ‘This looks much better on.’ On what? On fire?’ – Rita Rudner

‘Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.’ – John Elway

‘So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.’ – Gaston Bachelard

‘My dad said, ‘Cam, you can make this situation a dream or you can make this situation a nightmare.’ That struck a fire under me. That was my drive.’ – Cam Newton

‘I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There’s a purpose for why you’re in the fire. If God can use a man without arms and legs to be His hands and feet, then He will certainly use any willing heart!’ – Nick Vujicic

‘I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn’t go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.’ – Dylan Moran

‘Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter.’ – Jean Racine

‘O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.’ – William Shakespeare

‘I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice’s argument that you can’t scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.’ – Larry Flynt

‘Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it’s already gone, you’ve mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.’ – Naval Ravikant

‘If your cat’s up a tree, you call the fire department. If someone’s hurt, you call the fire department. If there’s a mudslide or your house is on fire, you call the fire department. They’re our first line of defense.’ – Lorne Greene

‘My uncle’s house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I’ve had a nightmare of dying in a fire.’ – David Copperfield

‘There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It’s Prometheus stealing fire. That’s it. That’s what we do as scientists or technologists.’ – Brian Andreas

‘As for the United States’ future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors – the Soviets and, before them, the British.’ – Mohammed Omar

‘Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.’ – Cornel West

‘The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.’ – Paramahansa Yogananda

‘Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work… Fire is a chemical presence.’ – Ben Okri

‘I’ve seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.’ – Rachel Field

‘As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘Being 5′ 10, I was supposed to be too short to play college volleyball. So that gave me the hunger and the fire to say, Oh yeah? I’d just hit the crap out of the ball.’ – Summer Altice

‘London is a city of ghosts; you feel them here. Not just of people, but eras. The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the plague, the smoky ghost of the Great Fire that gave us Christopher Wren’s churches and ushered in the Georgian city.’ – A. A. Gill

‘A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.’ – Nostradamus

‘A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.’ – Mae West

‘Some people would view Jackie Robinson as a very safe African-American, a docile figure who had a tendency to try to get along with everyone, and when you look at his history, you learn that he has this fire that allows him to take this punishment but also figure out savvy ways of giving it back.’ – Chadwick Boseman

‘I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it’s all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.’ – Dakota Fanning

‘Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.’ – Charles Simmons

‘I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That’s what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!’ – Raini Rodriguez

‘The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained.’ – Edmund Morgan

‘I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it’s hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.’ – Martina Navratilova

‘Words matter. Words can be a fire to the gasoline of disturbed minds.’ – Tom Malinowski

‘I’m not a huge award type person, that’s not really what lights my fire.’ – Morgan Wallen

‘We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.’ – Ed Markey

‘I’m scared of audiences. One show in Amsterdam I was so nervous, I escaped out the fire exit. I’ve thrown up a couple of times. Once in Brussels, I projectile vomited on someone. I just gotta bear it. But I don’t like touring. I have anxiety attacks a lot.’ – Adele

‘If you fire people, you fire customers.’ – Ferdinand Piech

‘When people think about ‘thinking,’ they often think ‘academia;’ they think ‘threat.’ They think ‘coldness.’ I want to reverse all those images and say, ‘No, the brain God gave you is intended to throw fuel on the fire of your affections for God. It’s really good at it if you let it.” – John Piper

‘When your neighbour’s house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.’ – Yahya Jammeh

‘To those who don’t want the truth about Kennedy’s assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there’s smoke, there’s fire.’ – Jim Garrison

‘Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.’ – Ethel Merman

‘My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I’ve always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.’ – Kim Elizabeth

‘Patriotism was a living fire of unquestioned belief and purpose.’ – Frank Knox

‘The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.’ – Sarah Wayne Callies

‘My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?’ – Erma Bombeck

‘A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.’ – Margaret Fuller

‘Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.’ – Charles Dudley Warner

‘In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong.’ – James E. Faust

‘The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.’ – George Carlin

‘That though thou seest it no great matter to be separated from Christ now, yet when the heavens shall be in a flaming fire, and the earth shall give up the dead that be in it.’ – Thomas Shepard

‘Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.’ – Bono

‘A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze.’ – Albert Pike

‘The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.’ – Jeff Rich

‘It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘Numerous have been the manifestations of God’s providence in sustaining us. In the gloomy period of adversity, we have had ‘our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night.’ We have been reduced to distress, and the arm of Omnipotence has raised us up.’ – Samuel Adams

‘So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.’ – John Newcombe

‘Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.’ – Dante Alighieri

‘The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.’ – Franz Kafka

‘I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I’m sure will be useful at some point.’ – Paul Giamatti

‘Trump would rather submerge himself in the lake of fire for a thousand years than talk about Russia again. It’s the subject he can never avoid, never fully wash out.’ – Rick Wilson

‘Hillary Clinton has taken some fire over 40 years of her fight for families and children. How does she do it? That’s what I want to know. Where does she get her grit and her grace? Where do any of our female firsts, our pathbreakers, where do they find that strength?’ – Meryl Streep

‘Very near Auch, Lectoure, and Mirande, great fire will fall from the sky for three nights. A most stupendous and astonishing event will occur. Very soon afterwards, the earth will tremble.’ – Nostradamus

‘When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.’ – George Carey

‘There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.’ – John Keats

‘Fire Island Pines is my perfect escape from N.Y.C. on weekends. Beautiful beaches, great restaurants, and fun people – exactly what I need after a crazy New York week.’ – Nick Wooster

‘I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn’t fire me because I was the only person they had working there.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘Watching a film should feel like you just tore a hole out of the air and the void caught fire.’ – Josh Fox

‘The true story of how my husband, Stephen, and I exchanged our first ‘I love you’s’ – chronicled in my 2012 memoir ‘Brain on Fire’ – occurred deep in a hallucinatory psychotic episode outside a crowded Maplewood, NJ, restaurant.’ – Susannah Cahalan

‘When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.’ – William Butler Yeats

‘During the bus boycott, I was tested by fire, and I came to understand that I was not a breakable crystal figurine.’ – Coretta Scott King

‘With the woke progressive fire hose spraying on and on and on, my Republican colleagues are constantly saying they want to stop the Democrats. But when the time comes to stop them, it’s business as usual for some.’ – Marjorie Taylor Greene

‘Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.’ – Washington Irving

‘Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can’t function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.’ – Judith Butler

‘It’s always a wonderful time to be able to settle down by the fire, enjoy the Christmas tree and the decorations, and just spend time with the ones you love and surround yourself with the people that you don’t get to see enough throughout the year.’ – Jay DeMarcus

‘Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.’ – Venerable Bede

‘If I’m on fire, don’t spit on me. I won’t spit on you. That’s respect. You go your way, and I’ll go mine.’ – Larry Johnson

‘I see candles as varied things. They give a warm glow, and fire purifies.’ – Dimple Kapadia

‘When a temple catches fire, irrespective of their faith, everyone works to douse the flames. Similarly, all parties worked against the forces that imposed Emergency.’ – Pinarayi Vijayan

‘Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.’ – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

‘Charles Blow’s memoir ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ was a breathtaking piece of writing.’ – Andrew Rosenthal

‘I’m interested in a lot. Like right now, I’m just really excited for ‘Catching Fire’ and ‘Mockingjay’ Part 1 and 2. But I love playing characters like Prim – I mean, Prim is like my dream character – but after ‘The Hunger Games’, it would be fun to look and see what else I could do well. But right now, Prim is like my dream role.’ – Willow Shields

‘If head coaches weren’t important to the success of a team, then owners wouldn’t fire them all the time.’ – Troy Aikman

‘I’m probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.’ – Jamie Oliver

‘We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.’ – J. B. Priestley

‘Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.’ – Thomas Fuller

‘Some fighters know when to stop on their own and go on to something else, and then some fighters have nothing to go back to after they are finished. Some fighters still have the burning fire and feel that they just need to try one more time. Few can do it.’ – Marvin Hagler

‘By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.’ – Thomas Merton

‘I love technology. Matches, to light a fire, is really high tech. The wheel is really one of the great inventions of all time. Other than that, I am an ignoramus about technology.’ – William Shatner

‘As a 6-foot, 6-inch, 300-pound black man, I’ve done everything I can to stay out of that box that Hollywood tries to put me in. I’ve been able to play a variety of roles, like the character of Vern in ‘Shall We Dance?’ with Richard Gere and Jennifer Lopez to the character of Neal in ‘Things We Lost in the Fire.’ I’ve been blessed.’ – Omar Benson Miller

‘I guarantee you that’s what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.’ – Bo Jackson

‘Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘It’s a world where I take 10 grand and light it on fire and make 20 grand.’ – MrBeast

‘The rising cost of prescription drugs has sparked a prairie fire that is spreading across our nation.’ – Tim Pawlenty

‘Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.’ – William Allingham

‘I fire very little because I try to be very careful when I select people. If you know how to select, you don’t fire often.’ – Harry Triguboff

‘I want my children to experience as much creativity as possible. That’s what sets your mind on fire.’ – Angela Bassett

‘Only a crazy person wouldn’t fear approaching a car with tinted windows during a late-night car stop, or pounding up a flight of stairs to execute a search warrant, or fast-roping from a helicopter down into hostile fire. Real agents, like real people, feel that fear in the pit of their stomachs.’ – James Comey

‘You fall out of your mother’s womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.’ – Quentin Crisp

‘I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I’m recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I’m concentrating on what the character is going through.’ – E. G. Marshall

‘We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.’ – Tamae Watanabe

‘I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.’ – Bill Ayers

‘We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.’ – Joe Biden

‘That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed and cursed with instant communication? We should not fight fire with fire, threats with threats.’ – Timothy Garton Ash

‘I shall be found with ‘Indians’ engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.’ – Helen Hunt Jackson

‘When I first played some Coltrane-type stuff on the ‘Pimp a Butterfly’ sessions, Kendrick got it immediately. ‘I want it to sound like it’s on fire,’ he’d say. That’s the kind of common ground that the best jazz and the best hip-hop have.’ – Kamasi Washington

‘The blood of the just will be demanded of London, burnt by fire in the year ’66. The ancient Lady will fall from her high place, and many of the same sect will be killed.’ – Nostradamus

‘The reason most people sweat is so they will not catch fire while they are making love.’ – Don Rose

‘My first car was an ’84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn’t good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don’t do that. Do it on concrete.’ – T-Pain

‘Insurgencies are easy to make and hard to stop. Only a few ingredients need to combine to create an insurgency; like oxygen and fire, they’re very common and mix all too often. The recipe is, simply, a legitimate grievance against a state, a state that refuses to compromise, a quorum of angry people, and access to weapons.’ – Richard Engel

‘It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.’ – Kate Chopin

”Fire and Hemlock’ is the reason I’m a writer.’ – Marie Brennan

‘You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire – that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it’s just this book.’ – Michael Cunningham

‘Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.’ – Leon Trotsky

‘I won’t go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me ‘E.T.’ and ‘Chariots of Fire’ instead. That’s entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.’ – Ginger Rogers

‘The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.’ – Hermann Hesse

‘You find out two executives are planning to break their contracts, keep the money you gave them, and steal 40 employees. What do you do? You fire them.’ – Bobby Kotick

‘I really didn’t want to rap; I was just a regular kid. My friend – his name is William Aston – we went to the same high school together, and he was rapping. He put out a freestyle over Chris Brown’s ‘Look at Me Now,’ and it was fire, and the whole school went crazy.’ – Lil Uzi Vert

‘I will fight for affordable housing for teachers, police, fire fighters, and families in all our neighborhoods.’ – London Breed

‘Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.’ – Navjot Singh Sidhu

‘I started EWF because I had a vision, and music was playing in my head that I wanted to bring through. What I had in mind was exactly what Earth, Wind & Fire became.’ – Maurice White

‘If there’s a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.’ – Caroline Paul

‘One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.’ – John W. Foster

‘I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.’ – Linda McCartney

‘I want to do ‘Chicago P.D.’ for as long as it’s on the air. I love the show; I love the Dick Wolf family. I think he’s created something genius with the crossovers and having everyone on these shows inhabit the same universe as far as ‘Chicago Med’ and ‘Chicago Fire’ and ‘Chicago P.D.” – Jesse Lee Soffer

‘May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs – let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.’ – Ignatius of Antioch

‘As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.’ – William Shakespeare

‘If your house is burning, wouldn’t you try and put out the fire?’ – Imran Khan

‘Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.’ – Charles Simmons

‘Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn – exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.’ – Otto Weininger

‘I keep busy. That was my nickname in college, ‘Iron to the Fire.’ I like to keep several things going at once.’ – Creed Bratton

‘It was a big thing for me to read black writers. ‘Fences,’ by August Wilson. James Baldwin’s ‘Amen Corner.’ ‘The Fire Next Time.’ ‘The Autobiography of Malcolm X,’ of course.’ – Chadwick Boseman

‘Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘If you were the boss of a company and some of the employees of your company were known to sexually abuse children, you would fire them instantly.’ – Sinead O’Connor

‘Doing the Best I Can’ is a sure fire hit. Incredibly commercial. But what could you say about it? Catchy and good to dance to. But ‘Nothing Rhymes’ is different. A much bigger risk but it was lyrics people could talk about. So that was the one to launch me on.’ – Gilbert O’Sullivan

‘Man’s mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.’ – Dorothea Brande

‘All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.’ – Charles Hazlewood

‘The memory of the 146 people who lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire stands as a reminder that legal protections and workplace safety standards were won through a long struggle for social justice and at great human cost.’ – Eric Schneiderman

‘Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.’ – Clive James

‘I scored a movie called ‘Endangered Species’. I worked on another movie called ‘Staying Alive’. A German film called ‘Fire and Ice’.’ – Gary Wright

‘A lifetime contract for a coach means if you’re ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can’t fire you.’ – Lou Holtz

‘My first ‘Tonight Show’ was just one of those things – I mean this seriously – a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first ‘Tonight Show’: Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It’s like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?’ – Garry Shandling

‘I haven’t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.’ – Ellen Glasgow

‘Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.’ – Bear Grylls

‘Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.’ – Mark Zuckerberg

‘Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.’ – Francis Bacon

‘That’s why you can’t be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned – the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter?’ – Julia Glass

‘We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency services in all of America’s major cities. Once we determine that, then we can decide what the funding is.’ – Warren Rudman

‘There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.’ – James Stockdale

‘Too many people start their day like a five-alarm fire. Instead, I teach people to start their day a little earlier than they usually do, and urge them to take the time to prepare, to practise, so when you get to work, it’s show time and you’re at your best.’ – Robin S. Sharma

‘Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.’ – Benjamin Franklin

‘At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way.’ – Ernest Thompson Seton

‘When I was in my late 30s, I lit a figure on fire on Baker Beach in San Francisco. It was me, a friend, and maybe eight people, tops. There wasn’t any premeditation to it at all. It was really just a product of San Franciscan bohemian milieu.’ – Larry Harvey

‘Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on the simple altars they have raised?’ – Joseph Howe

‘There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.’ – Leo Sayer

‘At what point in time can our government fire someone whose gross negligence left four Americans dead in Benghazi?’ – Jeff Duncan

‘Working with Tracy Morgan on ’30 Rock’ is really great. I love Tracy. He’s wonderful. Well, until his fish tank caught fire – his apartment burned up and flooded my apartment. We live in the same building, but I’m eight floors below him and we had to evacuate.’ – Sherri Shepherd

‘They’re either going to fire you or they’re not. They can only fire you. That’s all they can do. They can’t take your thumbs.’ – Ron Livingston

‘Interestingly, one thing I’ve found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they’ll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.’ – Hanna Rosin

‘The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.’ – Morihei Ueshiba

‘I’m not allowed to be woken up under any circumstances except if my house starts burning. Then my wife is authorised to wake me up, but only if fire gets to the door of my room.’ – Mirko Cro Cop

‘Fire really means a certain kind of burning in the soul that one can no longer tolerate when one is pushed against a wall.’ – Cornel West

‘I’m afraid of a gas leak, although I installed detectors. I’m afraid of a blown fuse that could cause a fire, and that’s why I don’t turn on electrical appliances at night.’ – Sayed Kashua

‘Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.’ – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

‘There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.’ – Edmonia Lewis

‘I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing… like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.’ – James Turrell

‘The saying in business is that, ‘You hire for skills and you fire for behavior.’ And one would argue that in order to move up in career, to be promoted, to take on additional responsibility, in many ways that’s linked more to the attitudes and behaviors that you carry rather than what you know technically about a given subject.’ – Gerald Chertavian

”St. Elmo’s Fire’ is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don’t get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes.’ – James McAvoy

‘I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn’t care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.’ – Shuji Nakamura

‘I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I’m trained!’ – Claire Danes

‘I never could stand losing. Second place didn’t interest me. I had a fire in my belly.’ – Ty Cobb

‘All things, good and evil, come out, it seems, of the East. The Illuminati, like the Ismailites, dealt in allegories; and like the Mazdakites, they played with fire.’ – Ameen Rihani

‘I’m a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?’ – MJ Hegar

‘I’ve always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.’ – Aldous Harding

‘I mean, it’s pretty disillusioning for all of us right now, and we feel pretty helpless when Congress, their approval rating is thirteen percent, and across the board, whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican, you sort of want to walk in and fire everybody.’ – Christopher Cross

‘Climate change is not the fault of man. It’s Mother Nature’s way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.’ – Howard Bloom

‘I feel like I had to prove myself a lot because people doubt you. If someone does doubt me it does ignite a bit of a fire.’ – Vick Hope

‘I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I’ve been through. And I’m still a romantic; I still want Bambi to make it out of the fire.’ – Gary Paulsen

‘I have a lot of irons in the fire.’ – Ian Ziering

‘Whenever we warm our hands by the fire, we allow the energy radiated by the fire to quicken up the movements of the atoms of which the hands are composed. When we cool any substance, we check those movements.’ – William Henry Bragg

‘Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts.’ – Eliezer Yudkowsky

‘Your sweetheart calls you by another’s name. His eyes linger too long on your best friend. He talks with excitement about a girl at work. And the fire catches. Jealousy – that sickening combination of possessiveness, suspicion, rage, and humiliation – can overtake your mind and threaten your very core as you contemplate your rival.’ – Helen Fisher

‘There’s a certain time of day after sunset when people naturally seem to feel the urge to gather by a fire or a stove or a hibachi or another common source of heat and food, and hunker down together to eat and drink. Call it the blue hour.’ – Kate Christensen

‘A move to a different town or school gives us new places to explore, new people to meet; a lost pet means we have to organize a careful search; baby-sitting requires looking out for dangers a young child can’t foresee; a car crash or fire demands that we get help immediately.’ – Jim Murphy

‘QLA is not about filling your brain with information – it is starting a fire within your heart and soul!’ – Dan Pena

‘Detroit Pistons basketball slogan: When the going gets tough, we fire the coach.’ – Jeff Van Gundy

‘My cousin Jerry Lucey and five other firefighters died in a warehouse fire in Worcester, Mass.’ – Denis Leary

‘After I read ‘The Hunger Games,’ I went out and got ‘Catching Fire’ the next day.’ – Jodelle Ferland

‘Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks.’ – Les Brown

‘For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire’s still going.’ – David Foster Wallace

‘Every idea is an incitement… eloquence may set fire to reason.’ – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

‘The potential of fire on board an aircraft is among the most serious issues in aviation.’ – Richard Quest

‘What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.’ – Sam Altman

‘Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.’ – Rudyard Kipling

‘The narrative of ‘man the hunter’ presupposes that men provided the nutrition, invented the tools, and established social organization and communication through the hunt, and that women were just sitting by the fire waiting for evolution to drag them out by the hair in the 1960s in order to participate.’ – Amanda Foreman

‘I’ve started to think that maybe I wouldn’t mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘I am two different people. What you see on the court is just natural for me. I wear my heart on my sleeve. I have always said ‘C’mon’ purely to fire myself up. Off the court, I am a lot shyer. I stick to my team and my family and people I trust.’ – Lleyton Hewitt

‘I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.’ – Charles Spurgeon

‘The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.’ – Auguste Rodin

‘The fire to inspire women and help them to blaze new paths fiercely burns inside of me.’ – Tyra Banks

‘Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.’ – Gary Oldman

‘There is in every woman’s heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.’ – Washington Irving

‘We all have the same problem as human beings. And it’s something that we are born with, and we just see it manifest in different ways. And in this situation, it’s racial. It’s brutality. It’s people breaking the law. It’s the smoke, but the underlying fire is something that we all have to deal with, and that’s our sin.’ – Benjamin Watson

‘I love winning, I love playing to win. You need some of that to be a bowler. You need to have a hatred for the batsman to make sure you have that real fire to perform.’ – Stuart Broad

‘I don’t want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire ’em.’ – Gallagher

‘My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘I’m on fire when I’m singing, I’m completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It’s a very special thing.’ – Sinead O’Connor

‘In most communities it is illegal to cry ‘fire’ in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‘Run like hell and all of fire.’ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.’ – Maya Angelou

‘Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.’ – Nostradamus

‘I experienced a lot of discrimination in the military. One commander told me that if my time of the month got in the way of my job, he would fire me. An instructor in pilot training continually failed me for subjective things, like judgment and situational awareness–I couldn’t get him to tell me what I was doing wrong.’ – MJ Hegar

‘Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.’ – Henry Miller

‘When I was running training, we would fire a couple of leaders from every SEAL team because they couldn’t lead. And 99.9% of the time, it wasn’t a question of their ability – it was a question of their ability to listen.’ – Jocko Willink

‘I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.’ – Amy Lowell

‘The Ritz Hotel has never yet provided game of such wondrous flavor as the bird plucked and half-cooked over the small boys’ camp fire.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘I never set fire to a piano. I’d like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn’t any good.’ – Jerry Lee Lewis

‘One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.’ – Mahavira

‘I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.’ – Edith Sitwell

‘My favorite moments? Where it’s all going swimmingly, the sun’s out and I’ve got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.’ – Bear Grylls

‘Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.’ – Arjun Rampal

‘At the height of Earth, Wind & Fire’s success, I felt an emptiness and void. I studied lots of philosophies and cults and I prayed to God. God made it plain that Jesus Christ died for my sins.’ – Philip Bailey

‘High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.’ – Camille Paglia

‘The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.’ – Martin Puryear

‘Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.’ – Margaret Fuller

‘For the demise of the Latin monarch, he who will reign with help and support will burn a brilliant fire. The Republic’s booty divided and its bold dream disappeared.’ – Nostradamus

‘What I’ve learned is that unless it’s an emergency, like a fire or brain surgery, hierarchy is not necessary and may be damaging. If you have a hierarchy, you’re repeating the strengths and weaknesses of one person without allowing for the accumulative strength of a group.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.’ – James Longstreet

‘Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.’ – Buffalo Bill

‘A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.’ – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

‘There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.’ – Bobby Scott

‘Man needs colour to live; it’s just as necessary an element as fire and water.’ – Fernand Leger

‘The one image that’s been causing a lot of discussion is one image that I shot of a man falling head-first from the building, before the buildings fell down. He was trapped in the fire, and decided to jump and take his own life, rather than being burned.’ – Richard Drew

‘Once death was really close to me, I suddenly became very fearful of it. I think that lit a fire in me like, ‘What do you have to say before it happens?” – Michelle Zauner

‘I take much pride in winning. I don’t accept losses, so I’m always going after that. The day I lose this fire, I think it’s time for us to stop.’ – Jose Aldo

‘A drop of water can’t stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.’ – Sylvie Guillem

‘Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?’ – Cyrano de Bergerac

‘Democrats are fighting fire with fire. Our principled stance on Medicare and Social Security is absolutely no different than the Republicans’ stance on no revenue increases without cuts.’ – Judy Chu

‘I have mentally overcome situations most of you would be terrified to ever attempt: heights, fire, needles, spiders, snakes, angry monkeys, being shot, being hit by a car, going blind – you name it, I have been in a situation where I have had to mentally overcome my inherent fears to do my job.’ – Criss Angel

‘I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.’ – Nancy Cartwright

‘I’m a good juggler. If you want to court a woman, you need to be able to juggle five balls, fire, and knives.’ – Peter Scolari

‘Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, ‘This is where I wanna be.” – Patton Oswalt

‘I’m glad I don’t have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.’ – Mignon McLaughlin

‘You’re an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.’ – Franklin P. Jones

‘The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.’ – J. William Fulbright

‘This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.’ – Marcus Tullius Cicero

‘The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool.’ – Ovid

‘Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.’ – Edward Everett Hale

‘As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet’s mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.’ – John Keble

‘It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.’ – Horace

‘It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.’ – Publilius Syrus

‘Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?’ – Stephen Hawking

‘I’d like to be able to light the fire a little bit.’ – Reggie Jackson

‘It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.’ – Sylvester Stallone

‘There stands no contradiction between giving voice to legitimate anxiety and at the same time, as and when exchange of fire commences, looking to the rest of the country, as well as all of us in the House, to give full moral support to our forces.’ – Charles Kennedy

‘Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.’ – Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

‘The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney’s friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said ‘Yes.” – Conan O’Brien

‘The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.’ – Henri Frederic Amiel

‘At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.’ – E. M. Forster

‘Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization was the domestication of the human male.’ – Max Lerner

‘It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.’ – James Fenimore Cooper

‘Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.’ – Elsa Maxwell

‘You know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they’re both on fire – they’re exactly alike.’ – Dave Attell

‘Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.’ – Guy Verhofstadt

‘You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.’ – Amy Lowell

‘Well, yes, I’ve fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it’s always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.’ – Donald Trump

‘I did my military service from 1989 – 92 and I was never shot at or had to fire on anybody. I was very lucky. I was more involved in intelligence and counter-intelligence.’ – Oded Fehr

‘The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.’ – Joe Manchin

‘No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.’ – Gene Simmons

‘I’m frustrated by something, it’s my fault for exposing myself to it in the first place. The rumor mill always seemed like a grass fire to me. Why walk out in the middle of the field, it’s just going to flame out and go away just like everything else does?’ – Amy Grant

‘Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.’ – Ludovico Ariosto

‘Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.’ – Manfred von Richthofen

‘Call things by their right names – Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.’ – Robert Hall

‘Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.’ – Paul de Man

‘If there is illness in your home, do you not need a doctor from outside? If your home catches on fire, do you not need fire fighters from outside? God has sent me to America in the role of a doctor, in the role of a fire fighter.’ – Sun Myung Moon

‘I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.’ – Ted Nugent

‘The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.’ – Margaret Walker

‘Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be ‘liquidated’ or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.’ – Walter Duranty

‘Our volunteer fire departments know their needs better than Washington, D.C. They need more flexibility on spending grant money from FEMA and Homeland Security.’ – Mike Ross

‘There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.’ – Jackie Stewart

‘When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I’m surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.’ – Jackie Stewart

‘The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.’ – Burke Marshall

‘The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can’t go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.’ – Michael Lewis

‘A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.’ – James Harrington

‘For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer’s mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.’ – Roger Bacon

‘On the last morning of Virginia’s bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.’ – Patricia Cornwell

‘In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner’s heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.’ – Charles Kendall Adams

‘The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.’ – John Jakes

‘O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?’ – Ada Cambridge

‘There are two kinds of directors: There’s the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there’s the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.’ – Michael Pitt

‘I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.’ – Tre Cool

‘All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.’ – Paul von Hindenburg

‘I’ve had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there’s not a fire anymore.’ – Luke Perry

‘Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it’s up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.’ – Frank Luntz

‘I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.’ – Mark Hoppus

‘The word was enough. It ran like fire along the line, from man to man, and rose into a shout, with which they sprang forward upon the enemy, now not 30 yards away.’ – Joshua Chamberlain

‘Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I’ve played tough so much.’ – Izabella Scorupco

‘We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river.’ – Knute Nelson

‘Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.’ – Matthew Simpson

‘Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.’ – Ed Markey

‘Fire is the origin of stone. By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.’ – Andy Goldsworthy

‘I’m cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.’ – Andy Goldsworthy

‘In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy.’ – William Falconer

‘And for the first time in a long time, I’m playing along somebody that has that same energy and fire and plays pretty much the same way I do. So, that was just nice to say.’ – Latrell Sprewell

‘The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.’ – Michael Chabon

‘American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.’ – John Yoo

‘Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.’ – Greg Walden

‘As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation’s ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.’ – Greg Walden

‘In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.’ – Barbara Steele

‘I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn’t fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.’ – Luke Ford

‘I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it’s much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.’ – Bobby Flay

‘Walking through this life really is walking through fire.’ – Chaka Khan

‘In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.’ – Estelle Parsons

‘I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!’ – Camille Claudel

‘I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire… that’s the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.’ – Camille Claudel

‘In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint’s film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.’ – Charlton Heston

‘The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.’ – Douglas Bader

‘Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.’ – Kevin Kelly

‘I’m an entertainer. If people are paying good money for tickets they deserve the best show they can see. I don’t get into lighting stuff on fire, but I do believe in going the extra mile.’ – Bryan White

‘I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.’ – Hedy Lamarr

‘Tonight I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me.’ – Richard Harding Davis

‘You don’t sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don’t do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.’ – Theodore Sturgeon

‘It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.’ – Henry Mayhew

‘When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.’ – Andrea Mitchell

‘If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.’ – H. P. Lovecraft

‘I’m healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it’s great to be out performing again.’ – Chris LeDoux

‘The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I’ve seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.’ – Dominic Chianese

‘When I’m acting, I’m two beings. There’s the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.’ – Jeanne Moreau

‘Fire has impacted every part of our lives – without fire, there would be no shopping, right? – that’s how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids’ lives.’ – Jay Chiat

‘Recognition of this kinship with the rest of the universe is necessary for understanding him, but his essential nature is defined by qualities found nowhere else, not by those he has in common with apes, fishes, trees, fire, or anything other than himself.’ – George Gaylord Simpson

‘I mean, you have a general tone of it but it’s pretty much you get to come in and you’re going to flip this car and it’s going to blow up and you’re going to come out on fire and you go oh, that’s cool, and then you get paid a lot of money.’ – David R. Ellis

‘But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.’ – George Ripley

‘I fought fire with oil.’ – Dalton Trumbo

‘I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.’ – Zane Grey

‘The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.’ – James Longstreet

‘When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.’ – David Bowie

‘Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.’ – Eugenio Montale

‘Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.’ – Hermann von Helmholtz

‘The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.’ – Moshe Dayan

‘The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.’ – Jessica Savitch

‘But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you’re actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.’ – Buddy Rich

‘Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.’ – Harry Houdini

‘Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.’ – Harry Houdini

‘To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm.’ – Harry Houdini

‘You know me, I’ve got to find some way to get a fresh fire.’ – Garth Brooks

‘I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.’ – Jackson Browne

‘Not too much, though there’s a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.’ – Donald Sutherland

‘What a couple. I’m consumed into ashes. And he’s always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.’ – Agnes Smedley

‘The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.’ – Buffalo Bill

‘In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month – about 50 cents.’ – Agnes Smedley

‘He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.’ – Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

‘I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.’ – Mike Weir

‘The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.’ – Sean Connery

‘What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?’ – Max Muller

‘The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.’ – Shmuel Yosef Agnon

‘You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one’s friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle.’ – Buffalo Bill

‘They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.’ – Burt Lancaster

‘It’s not a party until the fire department shows up.’ – Thom Filicia

‘Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands.’ – Kenelm Digby

‘I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn’t fire one gun and never gets on a horse?’ – David Carradine

‘How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?’ – Kamisese Mara

‘What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.’ – Joseph Wambaugh

‘But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists’ chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.’ – Garrett Hardin

‘Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story… I don’t if anybody knows what it is but it was about… in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.’ – Val Guest

‘I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers… clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.’ – George Catlin

‘The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.’ – Felix Adler

‘The elements and majestic forces in nature, Lightning, Wind, Water, Fire, and Frost, were regarded with awe as spiritual powers, but always secondary and intermediate in character.’ – Charles Eastman

‘We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people’s feet to the fire.’ – Jennifer Granholm

‘From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.’ – Philip Gibbs

‘My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire.’ – Catherine Helen Spence

‘I’d take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what’s going on in there and also understand that for every punch that you or your opponent throws there’s always a counter shot or two which you have to be ready to fire or defend.’ – Alexis Arguello

‘But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we’ll see.’ – Steve Spurrier

‘The North understand it better – they have told us for twenty years that their object was to pen up slavery within its present limits – surround it with a border of free States, and like the scorpion surrounded with fire, they will make it sting itself to death.’ – Robert Toombs

‘And new people come in, and it doesn’t go along with their politics, and they fire me, end the column, silence a voice in Los Angeles. They can’t silence it nationally, but they are able to do it there.’ – Robert Scheer

‘If we want to build the Iraqis’ confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.’ – John Conyers

‘I’ve got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I’m really fascinated by that.’ – Rosamund Pike

‘I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they’re going to hold the locals’ feet to the fire.’ – Lynn Westmoreland

‘Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It’s great. The problem is there’s a million dots at the time.’ – Louis Freeh

‘For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.’ – James T. Walsh

‘We’re still a great team. In your mind you can understand that but, emotionally, we needed to express the same belief. We came out full of fire and scored two early goals, two really beautiful goals, and that changed everything.’ – Dennis Bergkamp

‘Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.’ – Ronnie Montrose

‘I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.’ – Ronnie Montrose

‘I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I’ve always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.’ – Delta Burke

‘I always believe that most people could do it. I mean obviously I didn’t just sit and stand. I used to love cradling the gun and just posing with the hand cocked ready to fire the gun, and the costume helped a great deal.’ – Jeremy Bulloch

‘It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.’ – Ernie Pyle

‘In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children’s children.’ – Oliver North

‘Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that’s in your audience’s eye.’ – Ken Kesey

‘To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don’t even see that sometimes.’ – James Dickey

‘I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.’ – Len Wein

‘My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.’ – Jean-Jacques Annaud

‘But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.’ – Benjamin Whorf

‘Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.’ – Red Barber

‘I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn’t take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next.’ – Jimmy Connors

‘As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing.’ – Vito Fossella

‘This record has a lot of influences that I’d love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I’ll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.’ – Jon Secada

‘Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.’ – Lucille Roybal-Allard

‘I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981.’ – R. A. Salvatore

‘Storytelling is what lights my fire.’ – Hope Davis

‘A husband is like a fire – he goes out when unattended.’ – Evan Esar

‘The reason people sweat is so they won’t catch fire when making love.’ – Don Rose

‘I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.’ – Dinah Shore

‘You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.’ – Ellen Goodman

‘There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.’ – John B. S. Haldane

‘Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who’s sorry for a gnat or girl?’ – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation’s police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.’ – Bill Pascrell

‘My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.’ – Mason Cooley

‘To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.’ – Dean Kamen

‘One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.’ – Friedrich Durrenmatt

‘One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.’ – Ivan Turgenev

‘The fire burns as the novel taught it how.’ – Wallace Stevens

‘It is a great pity but tis certain from every day’s observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.’ – Laurence Sterne

‘Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.’ – Livy

‘The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.’ – Marge Piercy

‘In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.’ – John Glover

‘Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.’ – Kelly Rowland

‘The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.’ – Richard Price

‘To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.’ – John Lyly

‘With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America’s exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?’ – Adlai Stevenson II

‘God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.’ – Abraham Cahan

‘I was like any new bride, who said, ‘I’m going to cook for my man.’ In fact, once I started a small kitchen fire in a pan. Smoke was pouring from the pan, and I got really scared. Right next to our stove is a small fire extinguisher. You know, easy access.’ – Catherine Zeta-Jones

‘But clearly, this is what this is about. It’s about pushing the security bubble out. It’s about rooting out every last guy, so that there’s not even somebody who can fire a single, solitary RPG round from some little qalat out here.’ – David Petraeus

‘At the end of the day, I have one job requirement right now that’s been given to me by the Republican Party and, I think, the American people, and that’s to fire Nancy Pelosi.’ – Michael Steele

‘We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We’re throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.’ – Austan Goolsbee

‘If there’s another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.’ – Daniel Ellsberg

‘I’ve done my best to work from a place of humility – always looking over your shoulder saying, ‘Does this suck?’ and I think that’s a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, ‘I’m on fire, I’m amazing!’ and I don’t think that’s the way to work.’ – David O. Russell

‘After my grandfather’s plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.’ – Tom Hooper

‘I really liked ‘Starter For Ten’ because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’ and I’ve always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.’ – James McAvoy

‘Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation’s fury.’ – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

‘Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York – because otherwise I don’t walk anywhere – and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, ‘Are you all right?’ and she was still taking pictures.’ – Kate Moss

‘In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.’ – Joan Didion

‘It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we’d play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day.’ – Jay-Z

‘You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.’ – Elizabeth Warren

‘When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice – change this, change that – and one thing that I didn’t do was fire anybody.’ – Mark Cuban

‘If my house was on fire, I can’t compromise about which part of the house I’m going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.’ – Marco Rubio

‘Every week I have a disaster in my kitchen. The fire alarm goes off repeatedly. But it doesn’t stop me being adventurous.’ – Paul O’Grady

‘You know, I’m no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.’ – R. Kelly

‘I keep reading that I’m cold. But I’m not, I’m shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal – so I’m cold on one side and fiery on the other.’ – Emmanuelle Beart

‘Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away – he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.’ – Nigel Farage

‘When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.’ – Muqtada al Sadr

‘You don’t extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.’ – Pope Shenouda III

‘In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a ‘Public Safety Complex’ around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.’ – Rachel Maddow

‘I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly.’ – Kyle Shewfelt

‘I put a lot of fire in my punches.’ – Rau’Shee Warren

‘Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It’s a collective process.’ – Joseph Gordon-Levitt

‘I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.’ – Emeril Lagasse

‘You’ve got to be a little vicious. You’ve got to be narcissistic. You’ve got to be on fire about your career.’ – Howard Stern

‘I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!’ – Flavor Flav

‘Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you’ll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.’ – Bobby Flay

‘It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire.’ – Jenny McCarthy

‘You cannot play with fire.’ – Al-Waleed bin Talal

‘The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it’s not clear that it’s good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly.’ – Mark Steyn

‘The unions say ‘last hired – first fired,’, we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.’ – Scott Walker

‘Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms – and we can keep them there.’ – Scott Walker

‘As I discovered music, especially Rock ‘n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.’ – Taylor Hanson

‘I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That’s why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I’m part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be.’ – Kenneth Branagh

‘Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody’s trained, but I’m the commander of the ship, and it’s up to me to decide.’ – Chris Hadfield

‘People would have a health care insurance policy they can call their own. They could choose one that exactly fits their families’ needs and their budgets, be able to take that coverage with them from job to job and be able to fire their insurance company if it doesn’t treat them well.’ – Andrew P. Harris

‘I’m a journalist, I run to the fire, that’s what we do.’ – Shepard Smith

‘Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!’ – Daniel Clowes

‘While Free Choice Vouchers didn’t fulfill my vision of a health care system in which every American would be empowered to hire and fire their insurance company, they were a foothold for choice and competition and a safety valve for Americans whose employers are already forcing them to bear more and more of their family’s health insurance costs.’ – Ron Wyden

‘When I was playing for tips in college, I felt a fire in my soul. I had the same principle of focus that I had learned playing football.’ – Kenny Chesney

‘With his economic speeches in response to Obama’s ‘you didn’t build that’ fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.’ – David Limbaugh

‘I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.’ – Jack Kemp

‘What are people going to do? Fire me? I’ve been fired before. Not book me? I’ve been out of work before. I don’t care.’ – Joan Rivers

‘There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can’t look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change?’ – Andrea Jung

‘I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn’t like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don’t like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I’ve been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I’ll hold his feet to the fire just as much.’ – Glenn Beck

‘It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.’ – Judy Blume

‘I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they’re huge or not, you know? I’m the kind of person who doesn’t realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.’ – Anna Kendrick

‘The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn’t have the fire to create from.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘Though ‘Fire and Rain’ is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience… And that’s what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it… can be a shared experience.’ – James Taylor

‘Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It’s not as if I sit down and play ‘Fire and Rain’ by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up… the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.’ – James Taylor

‘I’ve never felt like my career has been on fire.’ – Greg Kinnear

‘I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the ’80s and ’90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.’ – Hulk Hogan

‘In a world of democracies, in a world where the great projects that have set humanity on fire are the projects of the emancipation of individuals from entrenched social division and hierarchy; in such a world individuals must never be puppets or prisoners of the societies or cultures into which they have been born.’ – Roberto Unger

‘Among the many problems with taking the Bible literally is it reduces the most mysterious and complex of realities to simple – even simplistic – terms. Yes, scripture speaks of fire and damnation and eternal bliss, but the Bible is the product of human hands and hearts, and much of the imagery is allegorical, not meteorological.’ – Jon Meacham

‘As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I’ve always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow – with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.’ – Jon Meacham

‘Here’s my definition of a great beach read – a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it’s over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.’ – Dorothea Benton Frank

‘Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it’s all at, it’s what lights the fire.’ – Bruce Springsteen

‘Making a film is like putting out a fire with sieve. There are so many elements, and it gets so complicated.’ – George Lucas

‘I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you – you – you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.’ – George H. W. Bush

‘If I make a bogey or three putt I’m on fire inside. But it’s not like you’re going to play any better slamming your club or getting angry. So you might as well just keep it in. People say I’m pretty calm, but I do make mistakes and I do get angry, but I try and not show it.’ – Lydia Ko

‘The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble – famous and meaningless.’ – Morrissey

‘But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that – it’s like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you’re going to let in the front door.’ – Henry Bonilla

‘Accidents happen, whether they’re car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they’re tragic. It’s like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It’s the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.’ – James Belushi

‘Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even – and especially – when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.’ – Jack Antonoff

‘If there’s no fire, there’s no scream. If there’s no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.’ – R. Kelly

‘I love stories. When I’m writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we’re cavemen, we’re sitting around the fire, and I’m telling you stories. If I bore you, you’re probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.’ – Harlan Coben

‘The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of the sort. But the record that got me was a record by Derek Sampson, who was a young guy, called ‘Boogie Express,’ and it was boogie-woogie. Really, it was on fire, and that got me.’ – Jerry Leiber

‘I’ve never been able to learn from other people’s mistakes – I’m not that smart – so I usually learn by trial by fire.’ – Shia LaBeouf

‘You always draw from your roots. I’m influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!’ – Donny Osmond

‘You can’t be afraid to put out a fire if you’re a fireman. You can’t be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you’re afraid to get up and go out there. So you’ve got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.’ – Duane Chapman

‘It more or less has the shape of a love song, but ‘Crescent Moon’ reflects more my longing for an ancient romantic context that includes wild animals, fire, danger of death, stellar navigation, and seasonal intuition.’ – Frank Black

‘Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct ‘Catching Fire.’ As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule.’ – Gary Ross

‘When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I’m just gonna tell her, ‘Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they’ll have to hire you, they can’t really fire you, and you don’t have to produce that much. It’ll be awesome.” – Adam Carolla

‘Too many times I’ve heard records from bands who were obviously, like, ‘Well, we’re at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.’ You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.’ – Chad Kroeger

‘I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I’m pretty handy.’ – Cory Monteith

‘When I’m writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we’re cavemen, we’re sitting around the fire, and I’m telling you stories. If I bore you, you’re probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.’ – Harlan Coben

‘If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I’ll fire up my season 2 DVD of ‘Beverly Hills, 90210.” – Diablo Cody

‘I think it would be wrong to consider ‘Ashes and Fire’ a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.’ – Ryan Adams

‘I live in L.A.’ – Emma Bell

‘The one thing I’ve discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.’ – Susan Orlean

‘The deepest and most sincere feeling I get is when I meet an artist and they have that steel in their eyes and they have that fire and that passion and all they want is to be a star and to hear themselves on the radio.’ – L.A. Reid

‘To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago’s second city of garages was my young life’s passion.’ – Lynn Margulis

‘Since we can’t count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.’ – Ingrid Newkirk

‘People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It’s so fun. People are busting each other’s chops, and it’s a sign of affection, truly. It’s a true test of love and friendship: can you make a man laugh at himself? So what makes a good burn? Go after targets you love and respect. And hit ’em hard.’ – Jeff Ross

‘This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they’re doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.’ – Ben Carson

‘There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter, that unites us as a species, or it is an invention, like fire or wearing clothes, an idea so good that it was bound to metastasize across the globe.’ – Joshua Foer

‘Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That’s why there’s no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.’ – Camilla Lackberg

‘Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me.’ – Alan Jackson

‘If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!’ – Jean Nouvel

‘I did not fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.’ – Mike Love

‘If I could be anyone, I’d choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.’ – Rob Kardashian

‘I kind of found a niche for myself after ‘Firefly’. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it’s always different. It’s always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that’s cool.’ – Nathan Fillion

‘My daughter, I’m proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me.’ – Jessica Walter

‘I didn’t have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn’t going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.’ – Emmylou Harris

‘I always have humour in my action movies. I think characters that make jokes under fire are more real. It somehow helps put you in their shoes.’ – Shane Black

‘I think probably the scaredest I’ve ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as ‘Black Hawk Down’ was still taking place. The Americans were still pinned down under fire. And everybody else was basically going the other way, and I was the only one putting my hand up for a flight in.’ – Geraldine Brooks

‘You go from high school, to the NBA, and you’re thrown in the fire.’ – Dwight Howard

‘Honestly, I’m living my fantasy. It’s being with my family, preferably on a snowy afternoon with a fire going, cuddled up in blankets, playing a game.’ – Meredith Vieira

‘If your parents gave you fire to play with when you were two, you’d be standing in fire by the time you were an adult.’ – Cat Power

‘My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.’ – Bob Beauprez

‘I really want to work with Adele, I think she’s amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I’d also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.’ – Tinie Tempah

‘Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.’ – Naveen Jain

‘To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows’ & Children’s Benefit Fund.’ – Mark Sanchez

‘I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.’ – Ricky Whittle

‘I loved every minute of my childhood – sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand… Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.’ – Jennifer Egan

‘In the sago palms, you’ll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they’re crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good.’ – Tim Cahill

‘Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the ‘Forsyte Saga’ was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.’ – Simon Hoggart

‘I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.’ – Mark Helprin

‘Japan can’t get anything on the market very cheaply because it has a large, relatively highly paid workforce which you can’t fire.’ – Howard Stringer

‘Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.’ – Quentin Bryce

‘You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they don’t have the physical skills but because they don’t have the moral skills – to practise and admit failure.’ – Atul Gawande

‘You can’t work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames – of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.’ – Jack Gilbert

‘When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they’re standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.’ – Meg Rosoff

‘I’ve lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once ‘created,’ or produced, the art of fiction.’ – Rick Bass

‘When I was a kid and I’d be in trouble. I’d ask God to help me, and then once the fire was out, I wouldn’t talk to Him anymore. When I got older, I began to find I needed some help spiritually, just to function.’ – Stephen Adly Guirgis

‘I can cite a few cases of where people have tampered around with magic and witchcraft that they’ve been very severely frightened and traumatised by some of the outcomes. I mean we are playing with fire, and I had to say that.’ – Peter Hollingworth

‘The poet craves emotion, and feeds the fire that consumes him, and only under this condition is he baptized with creative power.’ – George Edward Woodberry

‘For myself, I haven’t been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions – as I’ve grown older, and realised that there aren’t that many books left for me to write, so I’ve become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.’ – Will Self

‘I’ve always had a way with a gun. As a kid, I loved to fire them at the shooting range in amusement parks. I’d always return home with a handful of prizes.’ – Olga Kurylenko

‘I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I’d always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I’ve always regarded fire as my friend.’ – Olga Kurylenko

‘I remember my first taste of American big movies was ‘Ghost Rider.’ I’m in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.’ – Rebel Wilson

‘I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I’ve got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.’ – Gordon Bell

‘In my mind’s eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.’ – A. S. Byatt

‘Back in the days, the groups and the bands that we listened to were like Earth, Wind and Fire, Santana and Grateful Dead. We don’t have a lot of those bands anymore.’ – Sheila E.

‘All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.’ – Lysander Spooner

‘An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.’ – Ami Ayalon

‘The players fire the coach, and as long as I’m on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.’ – Woody Hayes

‘If you’re able to arrange a trial period with a new hire, do it. It will give both of you a chance to make sure the position is a good fit – and can help you avoid being in the awkward situation of wanting to fire someone three or four weeks in.’ – Kathryn Minshew

‘I’m not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.’ – Rachel Zoe

‘My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it’s about pain, in whichever form it comes.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It’s about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth – intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It’s actually a beautiful feeling.’ – Peter Zumthor

‘It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.’ – Apolo Ohno

‘When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.’ – Rufus Wainwright

‘The single biggest lesson I learned was when a hire isn’t working out fire them fast. My biggest mistakes, and where I’ve seen the worst results, were when I gave someone too many chances, or let a situation drift on for too long because I couldn’t bring myself to terminate it.’ – Cindy Gallop

‘It’s a fire, it’s a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I’ve always enjoyed and I’ve always been very proud of is that the people I’ve done business with, the people around me have always made money.’ – Kevin Plank

”Yela’ represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. ‘Wolf’ speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.’ – Yelawolf

‘Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we’ve been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don’t like about ourselves and our environment.’ – Aubrey de Grey

‘My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.’ – Arthur Potts Dawson

‘While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don’t be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you’re set.’ – Barton Seaver

‘I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.’ – Joe Perry

‘I don’t take on a project unless I know the end result is going to make me happy. If I can’t give 100 percent to something, I choose not to do it because it’s very difficult to have so many pots on the fire at one time.’ – Johnny Weir

‘When you can light your water on fire due to methane contamination in your ground water, what else can you do but laugh?’ – Josh Fox

‘Having spent 10 years studying emerging markets, I know that you have patterns repeated over and over again. A bubble is like a fire which needs oxygen to continue… when you see there is no oxygen, things change.’ – Nouriel Roubini

‘Who the heck is Donald Trump to fire me? I regret I didn’t tell Donald Trump, ‘You need to fire your barber. I’m sorry. I ain’t feeling you, man. You’re fired! I fire you, Donald Trump.” – Sinbad

‘It’s interesting, the things you learn when you’re 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you’re not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.’ – Katee Sackhoff

‘When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, ‘You can’t hear that. It’s not for a child!’ Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.’ – Omar Sy

‘I can’t imagine having a real personal thing, like divorce and marriage, all those things, being in the public eye. I try to not talk about anything personal, and then nobody has the fire to throw back at you, like ‘You said this back then!” – Kirsten Dunst

‘Every school should have well-rehearsed emergency response protocols covering a variety of possible scenarios, from fire to armed intruders. Schools should have good lines of communications with local emergency response officials and practice those relationships in drills and special exercises.’ – Irwin Redlener

‘I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend’s house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it, so I ran to another room to write it down, but then the kitchen caught fire. His cabinets were charred, and he was furious. But it was worth it for a song.’ – Jill Scott

‘If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven’t tried anything really noble.’ – Larry Brilliant

‘Shaking’s one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the Earth and moving energy through the body because it’s where a lot of our stuff can get trapped.’ – Jerome Flynn

‘I’d like to be able to show ‘Rapid Fire’ to my dad. I’m that proud of what we’ve accomplished within the framework of the action-adventure formula.’ – Brandon Lee

‘I blame and credit my brothers for my competitive fire within me. Growing up, I lost at everything! My brothers are quite a bit older – 10 years and 5 years – so it was a challenge, but I have some of the most amazing memories with my big brothers.’ – Jennie Finch

‘If a manager can’t control his costs, fire them.’ – Kevin O’Leary

‘Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.’ – Tom DeLonge

‘I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.’ – Bono

‘There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.’ – Monica Raymund

‘I have a lot of things I want to do. I have a lot of fire. I want to do film. I want to do action movies. I want to do period pieces.’ – Monica Raymund

‘Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.’ – George R. R. Martin

‘Whether you’re a history buff or a fantasy fan, Druon’s epic will keep you turning pages. This was the original game of thrones. If you like ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’, you will love ‘The Accursed Kings’.’ – George R. R. Martin

‘I think the Bush Administration had basically inherited a policy toward Iraq from the Reagan/Bush Administration that saw Iraq as a kind of fire wall against Iranian fundamentalism. And as it developed over the 1980s, it became a real political run-a-muck… even though the Iraqis were known to be harboring Palestinian terrorists.’ – Rick Atkinson

‘The household I grew up in… was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.’ – Brian Blessed

‘My problem is, if any place I’m sleeping catches on fire, I’ve got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.’ – Brian Dennehy

‘I am happiest when I’m sitting on my parent’s couch with the fire place on and talking to my family.’ – Shantel VanSanten

‘Most people don’t know how underpaid and often ill-equipped urban fire departments are across North America.’ – Denis Leary

‘Most of the women placed in the fire department here in New York never passed the physical test. And a fat guy or a short guy, or anybody not passing the test in a life-or-death job, leads to friction.’ – Denis Leary

‘I’m not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn’t live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I’d be happy.’ – Kid Rock

‘I believe to go along to get along is unpatriotic. I believe that agreeing with your government on everything they do is unpatriotic. I believe a patriot stands up and holds your government’s feet to the fire. Because if you do that, you will get good government.’ – Jesse Ventura

‘One of the things that’s interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they’re putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I’m about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.’ – Nicolas Cage

‘Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.’ – Penn Jillette

‘I’ve loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.’ – David Lynch

‘You can look at Bad Religion, and, really, almost everything I’ve ever done was an exercise in creativity. I’ve always had a desire to challenge and question authority, and that’s where the fire inside comes from. I challenged authority out of a desire to make things better, not to be nihilistic about it.’ – Greg Graffin

‘The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.’ – Rachel Zoe

‘It’s about… my only strategy I’ve ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.’ – Dennis Quaid

‘To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I’m in exactly the same place I was when I left home – that, to me, is a miracle.’ – Bill Bryson

‘I’m a child of the ’80s, so like everyone else, I love all those classic, formative movies – ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,’ ‘Pretty in Pink,’ ‘Sixteen Candles,’ ‘Dirty Dancing,’ etc., with ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ and ‘The Breakfast Club’ existing on a separate, slightly higher plane.’ – Lauren Weisberger

‘Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it – ‘St. Anger’ being the fire and ‘Death Magnetic’ being the phoenix.’ – Kirk Hammett

‘People don’t seem to make the connection between their tax money and the benefits that they get from their tax money, like free education, and the fire department, and police protection, and everything else. It drives me bonkers, because it’s pretty straightforward to me.’ – Michael Schur

‘I knew that everybody could be replaced. Nobody lasts forever. And if you work for somebody, he’s certainly got the privilege and the right to fire you.’ – Ernie Harwell

‘Growing up under the heavy hand of the School Sisters of Notre Dame, it was drummed into me that attending weekly mass was not an option. It was a must to avoid eternal damnation, which was not a prospect filled with many positives. Hell fire was perpetual, and no parole would be offered.’ – Bill O’Reilly

‘Texting is addicting. Once you get emotionally involved with constant outside stimulation assaulting your brain, it is hard to stop looking at your machine every two minutes. Without rapid fire words appearing on a screen, you feel bored, not part of the action.’ – Bill O’Reilly

‘Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.’ – Ashwin Sanghi

‘Most people have this protective view of the presidency. Anybody who holds the office is always gonna get the benefit of the doubt unless the media spends four years destroying them like they did Bush, and with Bush not returning fire.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘There’s always going to be someone out there who doesn’t like what you do, doesn’t like your style, your face. That’s part of life. But I feed off that. I don’t think I’d be where I am today if it wasn’t for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.’ – Olly Murs

‘You could have a zillion Facebook followers. Those people don’t buy records. It’s about a hundred to one…Record companies, they don’t have any money, so they see social media as the free marketing… So… ‘Billy, light yourself on fire and stand upside down, and that’ll market the record.” – Billy Corgan

‘Coaches have got to be given rank within the university so that you can’t fire a coach unless you go through an academic committee, just as you would with a professor. If coaches are to have any stability and security, they need to be treated like an English professor.’ – Joe Paterno

‘There’s a guy on YouTube named Mac Lethal – he spits hot fire.’ – Bobby Moynihan

‘My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it’s about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child – sometimes too much – and I didn’t know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.’ – Penelope Cruz

‘I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn’t going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.’ – Iggy Pop

‘I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.’ – David Byrne

‘I don’t want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I’m not good at it, and I don’t like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It’s horrible.’ – Kim Cattrall

‘In the 9/11 Commission Report, one of the things they point out is that firefighters saved just about everybody below the fire. I don’t think they realize how proud the fire department is of that. Because, conceivably, that’s all they could have done. They could not have gotten above that fire.’ – Rudy Giuliani

‘When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.’ – Erin O’Connor

‘Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?’ – Paul Shaffer

‘If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something for protection.’ – Gracie Gold

‘One month I’ll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elton John and David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. I listen to a lot of American bands. But I like listening to new bands, too.’ – Tom Odell

‘I’m a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records – ‘Funeral’ being my favorite.’ – Tom Odell

‘There’s a point where you think, ‘What else will I do if I don’t do music?’ It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really powerful thing for me.’ – Kelis

‘Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince to Earth, Wind and Fire. They would have different vocal inflections. If the line insinuated pain, they would cringe on some lines.’ – Trey Songz

‘I discovered that I wanted to be an actor back when I did my first play in junior high. I’ve been doing theater in junior high and high school, and I just kept feeding the fire, kept wanting to pursue acting full-on.’ – Michael Steger

‘I’ve done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers… In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.’ – J. B. Smoove

‘When I was at ‘SNL,’ I would constantly get in arguments, ‘Why aren’t we more political? We’re not going after Bush.’ Then look what happened – that Sarah Palin season, they were on fire. It was about something.’ – Adam McKay

‘I was raised in the church, and there’s still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don’t ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I’m happy to talk about it.’ – Brandon Flowers

‘A lot of companies are clueless, because they spend most or all of their security budget on high-tech security like fire walls and biometric authentication – which are important and needed – but then they don’t train their people.’ – Kevin Mitnick

‘I was raised in an orthodox Jewish home where it was expected that, as a woman, I’d marry an investment banker, raise kids in the suburbs and go to temple. I wasn’t raised to set the world on fire.’ – Dani Shapiro

‘I think the artistic process comes from disorder. When you are happy, it’s not always a feeling that you can identify. It’s like a dog sitting in front of a fire. Pain isolates you, but it can also clarify things.’ – Amanda Harlech

‘Yes, it’s hard to stay in shape, but it’s also hard to raise kids. That doesn’t mean you get to drop them off at your local fire station when they get to be a handful.’ – John Ridley

‘I went through a low phase for two years when I had a string of flops. At that time, I even felt that I was in the wrong profession and that I should leave acting. But thankfully, I utilised that time to introspect and went on a self-exploration trip. I did theatre in between, and it helped grow the fire within me.’ – Randeep Hooda

‘I put myself in a spiritual and physical place where I’ve learned from experience the synapses are likely to fire and the juices are likely to flow, and simply begin to write.’ – Miller Williams

‘I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn’t catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.’ – Jenny Offill

‘I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there’s just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.’ – Henry Rollins

‘I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship’s lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?’ – Anita Shreve

‘Realistically, it’s the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they’re really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship.’ – John Logan

‘The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and ‘different’ pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry’s streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.’ – Suzy Menkes

‘The only reason we don’t notice how absolutely interwoven our thinking processes have become with older technologies – pencils, paper, electric light, penicillin, fire – is that they’re old, so we’ve ceased to notice their effects.’ – Clive Thompson

‘I burned down my backyard as a seven-year-old. I poured kerosene over dried leaves and set the whole place on fire, just for fun. Yeah, not a very normal thing to do.’ – Emraan Hashmi

‘People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don’t think we’ve gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print.’ – Ezra Klein

‘You read these management books that say, ‘These are the hard things about running a company.’ But those aren’t really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.’ – Ben Horowitz

‘As soon as you tell me to do one thing, I do the opposite. As soon as someone tells me not to get any more tattoos, I have this intense fire burning inside me to cover myself with them. I don’t care if it’s self-destructive. I just have that need to rebel.’ – Megan Fox

‘The heart in man signifieth the heat or the element of fire, and it is also the heat; for the heat in the whole body hath its original in the heart.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘God’s love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.’ – Jakob Bohme

‘I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA’s Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.’ – Jack W. Szostak

‘I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive. But a lot of our K-12 is a disaster. And the single most important reform would just be to fire the worst ten or 15 percent of teachers in the lot, and we would have massive improvements.’ – Tyler Cowen

‘The point of the feminist movement wasn’t simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one’s worth was judged on their take-home salary.’ – Mariella Frostrup

‘In a fire, you have to be thoughtful; you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I’m not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.’ – Caroline Paul

‘Fire taps something ancient and vital in each of us, something both snarling and reverential.’ – Caroline Paul

‘Most people go to the office and sit at a desk. When firefighters go to the office, we might birth a baby in the morning, save a drowning surfer in the afternoon, and run into a fire at night. What could be more interesting than that?’ – Caroline Paul

‘Portishead’s production is just insane beats you would expect to be on a KRS-One album. But then there’s this little white girl with an angel voice singing over it. It was a cool juxtaposition. I like ‘It’s A Fire.’ That’s a chill song with kind of a military drum thing going on, like a drummer boy.’ – Anders Holm

‘Prometheus – trickster, rebel and hero – links the realm of the gods with the world of humanity, with which he had such close affinity. His act of stealing fire has been viewed as the foundation of all man’s technologies.’ – Neil MacGregor

‘Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity.’ – Neil MacGregor

‘The fact that we can’t easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we’re like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology?’ – Seth Shostak

‘I’ve burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I’ve caught the yard on fire. I’ve burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.’ – Blake Shelton

‘Theater in New York is nearer to the street. In London, you have to go deep into the building, usually, to reach the place where theater happens. On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk, and you’re lucky if the sound of a police car doesn’t rip the envelope twice a night.’ – Tom Stoppard

‘I’m thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It’s appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes ‘Catching Fire’ while simultaneously promoting the Capitol’s punitive forms of entertainment.’ – Suzanne Collins

‘The most venomous animal that lives in the ocean is the box jellyfish. And every one of those barbs is sending that venom into this central nervous system. So first I feel like boiling hot oil I’ve been dipped in. And I’m yelling out, ‘Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire! Help me! Somebody help me!’ And the next thing is paralysis.’ – Diana Nyad

‘We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.’ – Neil Jackson

‘I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I’ll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: ‘I don’t have anywhere to write! I can’t write! I don’t have a place to write!” – Rainbow Rowell

‘When the Great Fire of London destroyed most of the medieval city in 1666, Christopher Wren was invited to design a new one. Within days, he had drawn up an elegant grid of broad boulevards leading to majestic squares, but it came to nothing – the existing landowners wanted things as they had been.’ – Norman Foster

‘Ojibwe prophecy speaks of a time during the seventh fire when our people will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well-worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed.’ – Winona LaDuke

‘The Marines in Korea never feared ‘friendly fire’ or artillery coming from the South Koreans – from their allies – like they did later in Vietnam, fighting with the South Vietnamese. The Koreans could be trusted.’ – David Douglas Duncan

‘With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire – they go in.’ – Bill Dedman

‘You know it’s a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.’ – Gillian Jacobs

‘I found the iPad to be too large and heavy to use comfortably in casual situations (like reading in bed, for example), and too limited to use as a replacement for my laptop. By comparison, the Nexus 7 is just the right size for use anywhere – it’s very similar in size to my daughter’s Kindle Fire, but lighter.’ – John Battelle

‘Learn the Constitution. Then when someone wants to be elected, hold their feet to the fire and make them follow it because that’s what we need to get back to. It works so well when we follow it.’ – Joe Wurzelbacher

‘I think that ‘City of Heavenly Fire’ is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be.’ – Cassandra Clare

‘I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story.’ – John le Carre

‘No one dislikes LL Cool J. If you meet LL Cool J, you fall in love with LL Cool J. LL and I had mutual friends, and he and I had always talked about doing something. My fans know LL’s music. And I love him – we’re blood brothers at this point. We’ve been through the fire together. I know no finer person.’ – Brad Paisley

‘My dad was president of the volunteer fire department, which was within walking distance to our house. I spent several days of each week there with him – any time the whistle blew, he went. It was truly inspiring to watch him lead that way.’ – Brad Paisley

‘Well-secured files don’t do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.’ – Barton Gellman

‘Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the ‘stove’ – the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn’t let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset.’ – Jose Andres

‘I was always the kid at school who thought it was a good idea to set off the fire alarm. And much as I’m aware that that’s a trait which also propels other things which are good, I wish I could just pause and go, ‘Is this really what you want to do?” – James Corden

‘I am a big fan of cosy. I get very excited by a roaring fire and even a perfectly made cup of tea. And being married really is the ultimate in cosy, so I couldn’t be more content.’ – Sophie Winkleman

‘I think we take for granted police officers and detectives that walk into some pretty heinous situations, and they really have to be very brave. So I love playing a character that’s very brave – someone that kind of dives in the fire to figure out what’s happened.’ – George Eads

‘Our parents more or less just kind of wanted us to pursue our passions. Whatever they would have been, they would have helped light the fire. They are very liberal, artistic people, but they didn’t force us into acting. They let us find our own ways.’ – John Cusack

‘Shaking’s great. Shaking’s one of the oldest practices known to man. Standing round a fire and connecting with the earth and moving energy through the body because it’s where a lot of our stuff can get trapped. Yeah, I would recommend it.’ – Jerome Flynn

‘The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called ‘Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.” – Patrick Fugit

‘Debt, we’ve learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains – pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies – but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

‘If you write an original, it’s like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, it’s like the oil well’s on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.’ – Brian Helgeland

‘We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.’ – Nancy Gibbs

‘My father’s a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn’t lighting cars on fire; I just wasn’t.’ – Aaron Paul

‘Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.’ – Ring Lardner

‘The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media.’ – Tina Brown

‘The president of the United States can’t even fire his chef. I’m not kidding.’ – Rob Lowe

‘Once I wrote ‘Atmosphere,’ I thought, ‘This is my story; it’s me and my life and what I’ve gone through to get to where I am.’ I’m not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable – one more thing that people can fire shots at.’ – Kaskade

‘There will always be hard times. Use adversity to fuel your fire. In high school, I wanted to play quarterback but couldn’t until I was a senior. I played wide receiver instead, and this ultimately helped me because I learned more about the game.’ – Ben Roethlisberger

‘As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger.’ – Robert Englund

‘I’m not a fan of what we call ‘friendly fire’ or ‘blue on blue.’ We don’t want to have that.’ – Tommy Franks

‘Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.’ – John Updike

‘One of the few things the Air Force did admit to me existed out there presently without admitting that it was Area 51 is this drone called the ‘Beast of Kandahar’ which does not fire missiles, unlike the Predator and the Reaper, but just conducts surveillance.’ – Annie Jacobsen

‘Directors get to fire on many more cylinders than an actor.’ – Jason Alexander

‘I had a theatre company years ago when I was a young man, and we would do street theater. This guy did a workshop one day on fire eating, and I participated, and it was just one of those party tricks that you learn. My last endeavor doing that was with the Muppets, back in 1995 or something like that. And I haven’t done it since.’ – Pierce Brosnan

‘Liberal democracy has endured because its institutions are designed for handling morally hazardous forms of coercive power. It puts the question of how far government should go to the cross fire of adversarial review.’ – Michael Ignatieff

‘I’m sure people see me as quiet and someone who keeps things to himself a little bit. I might be quiet, but there’s a lot of fire inside me, and hopefully people see that sometimes.’ – Luke Donald

‘I’m a pretty low-stress guy. I take what the golf course gives me. Some days, when I’m in full control, I’m able to fire at pins with 5-irons. Other days, I’m looking more toward the middle of the green.’ – Matt Kuchar

‘I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they’re on fire and save people in hospitals.’ – Luke Evans

‘I met a zillion people through Ronnie Wood. He’s been my friend since he was in The Faces, and he’s still my best friend. A real person, earthy, working 24 hours a day, uplifting to be around, and he’s still got that fire about music.’ – Bobby Womack

‘Most friendly fire incidents aren’t investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own.’ – Jon Krakauer

‘The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it’s constantly this fire at my heels.’ – Stephan Pastis

‘Often we eat squid fried, so it’s fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open into two flat pieces and thread them, along with the tentacles, onto skewers, then grill quickly over a direct fire with the coals as close as possible to the grate, turning the squid several times.’ – Tom Douglas

‘If you’re going to start a fire, why cook just one chicken?’ – Tom Douglas

‘Before the final battle in ‘Poison Princess,’ Evie remembered how to use her Empress powers, practiced with them to the point of exhaustion, then had a trial by fire. In a way, she earned those powers, as she hadn’t before, so that was certainly a confidence builder.’ – Kresley Cole

‘In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like ‘Spoonful,’ ‘Fire’ and ‘Born Under a Bad Sign,’ and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.’ – Alex Lifeson

‘Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city’s West Side.’ – Karen Abbott

‘I try not to think too much about an audience when I’m writing the first draft of a book – at that stage, the prospect of anyone reading what I’ve written would be enough to scare me into setting my laptop on fire.’ – Robin Wasserman

‘Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should stop immediately. It only took the one to tell me something different to light a fire under me.’ – Catherynne M. Valente

‘Fire is our first form of technology.’ – Ridley Scott

‘If you go back and look, a completely underrated film is ‘Quest for Fire.’ That was one of the most genius, simplistic but incredibly sophisticated notion of what it was. The evolution of that was just fantastic.’ – Ridley Scott

‘I cannot fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I am not his employer. I do not have such authority. And even if I did, I would never fire Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. I love Brian Wilson. We are partners. He’s my cousin by birth and my brother in music.’ – Mike Love

‘My favorite splurges are cheese pizza with hot peppers, Haagen-Dazs maple-walnut ice cream, Giant brand ice cream sandwiches, and fire sticks – those hot candies the size of a three-inch ruler.’ – Lindsay Wagner

‘Before I read the ‘Bloody Sunday’ script, I have to admit I hadn’t thought about it that much. There was probably even part of me which assumed there was no smoke without fire. That the Catholics who were shot must have done something to provoke such a response from the army. I was extremely ignorant of the whole situation.’ – James Nesbitt

‘The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw ‘Faust’ there – I did – knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.’ – Karen DeCrow

‘In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can’t fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.’ – Rick Perlstein

‘I’d like to see my grandchildren climb trees, not stand under them. I’d like to see them learn to make bread and brown it over a fire using my toasting fork.’ – Laurie Graham

‘It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.’ – Edward McKendree Bounds

‘I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, ‘Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.’ If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I’d fire them instantly.’ – Jenny Shipley

‘I’m not a malicious person. When you get past the tattoos and leather, I give people a fair shake. There are periods when I’ve sowed some wild oats, no doubt about it. And I can party with some of the heavyweights. There are some stories about me that, yeah, where there’s smoke there’s fire. But sometimes the smoke is just smoke.’ – Al Jourgensen

‘I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up ‘The Virgin and the Gypsy,’ D.H. Lawrence’s novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.’ – Pico Iyer

‘Gavin O’Connor, I’d walk into a fire for that guy. He’s a brilliant filmmaker and a passionate man.’ – Joel Edgerton

”Pale Fire’ by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.’ – Domhnall Gleeson

‘Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that’s really inspiring.’ – Spike Jonze

‘I met Arcade Fire on their first record, ‘Funeral.’ I loved that record, and it was a record I was listening to while I wrote ‘Where the Wild Things Are.’ Those songs – especially ‘Wake Up’ and ‘Neighbourhood’ – there’s a lot of that record that’s about childhood.’ – Spike Jonze

‘Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like ‘Ball of Fire’ and ‘Double Indemnity.’ I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.’ – Richard LaGravenese

‘Sound is a movement which is handed on from atom to atom in a gas through which the sound is passing, just as a chain of workers pass buckets of water to a fire. The quicker the workers move their hands and arms, the quicker the water moves.’ – William Henry Bragg

‘As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible, to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘There was a time when fire and story would fall asleep in unison. It was dream time.’ – Philippe Petit

‘The idea of aerial military surveillance dates back to the Civil War, when both the Union and the Confederacy used hot-air balloons to spy on the other side, tracking troop movements and helping to direct artillery fire.’ – Michael Hastings

‘I did learn a lot from ‘Things We Lost in the Fire,’ but I’ve learned different things from different films.’ – Susanne Bier

‘I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I even burned a building down once – not intentionally, just because I was interested in fire. I remember going through the rule book, ticking off the ones I had broken and looking for the ones I hadn’t.’ – Simon McBurney

‘The Janus-like nature of innovation – its responsible use and so on – was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand.’ – Craig Venter

‘I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair… I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out – to try and show ’em I was as good as they were.’ – Jimmy Dean

‘A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.’ – Nostradamus

‘A song is fire. You react to it primally, instantly. You don’t have to decide whether you like it, and you don’t really have to sit down and think about it much after you’re done listening to it. It really does run through you like wind.’ – John Darnielle

‘I came out when I was 17. I was in the church; I was crying every Sunday for about a year. I came to terms with the fact with this is who I was – I wasn’t going to be able to be a different person. At 17, you feel like a freak already, and so to have that fire and brimstone against your attraction is just screwed up!’ – Mary Lambert

‘In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can’t let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can’t.’ – Kate Winslet

‘My husband and I met in a house fire, basically.’ – Kate Winslet

‘You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.’ – Ben Bernanke

‘Some of the best conversations I’ve had are sitting around a camp fire.’ – Robyn Davidson

‘The best way to fire somebody is to compassionately fire them.’ – Nick Woodman

‘The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It’s not good for that person because they’re not succeeding in their role. And it’s not good for the organization because it’s just not working.’ – Nick Woodman

‘I think the hardcore fans can expect exactly what both ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Catching Fire’ delivered: ‘Mockingjay’ is going to be as faithful a rendition of Suzanne’s Collins’s world and books and characters as we can put out!’ – Elizabeth Banks

‘My mother is a ball of fire in the world, and I love that about her. But what I have learned from my stepdad is something as important, which is patience and compassion. Because when you are living with someone else, those two qualities go a long way.’ – Justin Timberlake

‘I don’t think I gave ‘Wings’ its due. I was young. I wanted to light the world on fire.’ – Tim Daly

‘Challenges in medicine are moving from ‘Treat the symptoms after the house is on fire’ to ‘Can we preserve the house intact?” – Elizabeth Blackburn

‘Barbecue is the good old technique of people making a fire and putting some stuff over the top – I mean, look at the S’more: it’s just got a stick. A lot of those goofy toys, it’s people who are looking at things to do. I think if you focus on the food, at the most you need tongs or a spoon to flip something; that’s about it.’ – Graham Elliot

‘If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad’s camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me – his personal things mean a lot.’ – Gia Coppola

‘I’m fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman’s hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called ‘Tinderbox City;’ there were always fires, people getting killed.’ – Peter Capaldi

‘I don’t know that movies are important. But I know that stories are important. Movies may disappear. They’ve only been around, for God’s sake, for the last hundred years… I think that it’s the need to tell stories, and that people need to be told stories. It’s the old sitting around the fire, you know.’ – Allison Anders

‘Fire people who are not workaholics.’ – Jason Calacanis

‘Fire fast: Fire people who do not fit into the culture of your company and who are negative.’ – Jason Calacanis

‘I think you can ban guns if you can just pull the trigger and 60 bullets fire out.’ – Bill Engvall

‘Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: ‘Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning – the zygotes or the children?” – Kurt Eichenwald

‘Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.’ – Patrick Ness

‘How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made that possible by irrupting into the temporal world. To Christians, God became man in the Incarnation; to Jews, the God that spoke out of the fire on Mount Sinai gave his Torah.’ – Meir Soloveichik

‘I just think demons are terribly interesting! In Sumerian times, demons weren’t seen as evil at all, just as incredibly powerful and very different from us: beings made of fire, when humans were made of earth.’ – Sarah Rees Brennan

‘It’s the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.’ – Michelle Paver

‘For me, inspiration isn’t a sort of spark which lights the fire of the story. It’s more like a thread, one of many, which you can tease out of a story once it’s written, if you feel so inclined.’ – Michelle Paver

‘You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don’t open fire on you.’ – Lynsey Addario

‘I’m actually quite good at being friends with my exes. I’m friends with almost everyone. In fact, everyone! So I let them burn to a certain degree, and then I put out the fire for a while.’ – Ella Eyre

‘Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to see if water moves faster than kerosene. When my father came out to smoke, a fire broke out.’ – Ada Yonath

‘When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary – it’s this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.’ – Abigail Disney

‘When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that’s when it switched for me to songwriting. That’s when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15.’ – Kelsea Ballerini

‘I’m trying to unify us internally so that we can – instead of firing on each other – fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues.’ – Jason Chaffetz

‘A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.’ – Rabih Alameddine

‘I love Carly Fiorina’s fire; she’s feisty as heck. She really seems to fearlessly take the fight right to the doorstep of the Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton Foundation.’ – Nicolle Wallace

‘All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table – that fire – and put the thump on these songs, and everything’s gonna work from there.’ – Mystikal

‘I walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, ‘I’m thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.’ And I looked him right in the eye and said, ‘Man, you’ve got the wrong guy. I’m gonna have to fire myself. You’ve got to hire somebody else.” – Chris Stapleton

‘Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to fire America’s saddest former celebrities, is one of the Republican Party’s most prominent national figures because he is on TV and people have heard of him.’ – Alex Pareene

”The Crumbling of America’ should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster.’ – Rachel Sklar

‘Embrace your fire – even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.’ – Jean Chatzky

‘I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I’ve since learned to read utter crap while I’m writing: pulp is the thing.’ – John Niven

‘I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I’ve made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.’ – John Niven

‘In Hollywood, there’s a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.’ – Patrick Whitesell

‘When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.’ – Kate Forsyth

‘Writing a book is very personal. It’s a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.’ – Ron Carlson

‘Cable’s on fire. Traditional broadcast TV’s hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like ‘Homeland,’ ‘Game of Thrones,’ ‘Veep.’ Now reinvention’s important.’ – Darren Star

‘I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn’t noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.’ – Bill Buford

‘My views of the missionary object are, indeed, different from what they were when I was first set on fire by Buchanan’s ‘Star in the East’ six years ago. But it does not always happen that a closer acquaintance with an object diminishes our attachment and preference.’ – Adoniram Judson

‘The general commanding congratulates his troops on their brilliant and successful occupation of Roanoke Island. The courage and steadiness they have shown under fire is what he expected from them, and he accepts it as a token of future victory.’ – Ambrose Burnside

‘To burn the ideal of a great love into the soul of youth in letters of fire – that is to give him a real moral strength.’ – Ellen Key

‘Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever’s on fire, I’m afraid.’ – Kelly Sue DeConnick

‘My inspiration comes from so many things, it is hard to give credit to one. I find music of all kinds to be a great inspiration. A melody or a lyric can fire my imagination. Exercise is another. Endorphins fuel my thoughts – I tend to work out scenes and dialogue when I am exercising. Reading is also a great inspiration.’ – Julia London

‘During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.’ – Jack Dangermond

‘From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!’ – Michael Foreman

”Dragon Age’ needs to have big story moments. It is a game about character first, and the party is an absolutely central part of that. I want to keep pursuing interactivity with the world: taking crowds to the next level or having things catch fire because you indiscriminately cast a fireball into a wheat field.’ – Marc Laidlaw

‘Speeches are much easier if you read them. I just find when I do that, it’s harder to fire up the crowd.’ – Donald Trump

”You’re fired’ was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I’m looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression ‘You’re fired.” – Donald Trump

‘As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.’ – Kim Kardashian

”What if?’ statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you’ll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control.’ – Travis Bradberry

‘I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don’t care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don’t disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you.’ – Roland Martin

‘When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That’s a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality.’ – Jon Favreau

‘All human endeavor, all human civilization, is the act of solving collective action problems. Should we put out our own fires, or should we have a fire department? Should we build roads, or should we hack our way through the woods from one factory to another?’ – Nick Hanauer

‘We’ll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we’re not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.’ – Frances Beinecke

‘I’ve seen fire, and I’ve seen rain. I’ve also had to scramble over tundra to get to the Super Bowl and seen baseball turf fields that could fry a fielder’s soles.’ – George Vecsey

‘I’ve always loved the poetry in ‘Pale Fire.’ I think it’s wonderful.’ – Jonathan Galassi

‘I was 8 years old in the spring of 1945 when my family fled Silesia to escape the Russian army. On our way, we passed through Dresden. A few days later, it was firebombed. The fire was so bright that night that one could read a newspaper from the light, though we were many kilometers away.’ – Gunter Blobel

‘Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and – too often – for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can ‘grow’ longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child’s play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.’ – Ellen Datlow

‘Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.’ – Jason Mitchell

‘I appreciate all of your expressions of concern, and I appreciate all of your expressions of love. It has been like a fire to my heart.’ – John Trudell

‘GYBE are among my, erm, two favourite Montreal bands, Arcade Fire being the other.’ – David Bowie

‘You can’t satisfy everybody. I will continue to do my job until I get fired, and the only people who can fire me are my fans.’ – R. Kelly

‘At some point during my travels, I had a slight change of focus which would end up defining the rest of my career. I began taking pictures of people. In addition to all the buildings, street signs and fire hydrants, I started photographing some of the interesting humans that passed by me on the street.’ – Brandon Stanton

‘When I was a kid, there was nothing better than water balloon fights. I grew up in Brooklyn: we had the fire hydrants, and we would open up a soda can at both ends and squirt people walking by. I love the kinds of things that encourage you to let your guard down, be open and vulnerable, and just to be laughing sincerely.’ – Dawnn Lewis

‘In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘California must be a really big fan of the ‘Hunger Games.’ Because it’s always catching fire.’ – Ian Hecox

‘I once lived in a cottage made entirely of wood, and there was an electrical fire. We all ran outside, and no one got hurt, but the house was demolished.’ – Taylor Kinney

‘I’m a sponge when it comes to stories. I’d say everything influences me in some way, but for ‘Red Queen’ in particular, I was really affected by the ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series by George R. R. Martin.’ – Victoria Aveyard

‘I believe that Senate Bill 1070 lit America on fire. I think we’ve all realized exactly what the situation is. And the people of Arizona have lived with these porous borders and illegal immigration into our state and that people throughout America realize that. Everybody understands the problem except the president of the United States.’ – Jan Brewer

‘We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That’s the way they did the wash until the 1950s.’ – Bobbie Ann Mason

‘Now I would go to London’s Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I’d love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home.’ – Kate Williams

‘There will be a great loss of learning before the moon’s full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.’ – Nostradamus

‘I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we’d just listen to Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band – all that good stuff. So to see it snaking its way back around again is really exciting, and I love listening to the radio.’ – Megan Nicole

‘We know that, too often, oil and other hazardous materials are shipped across the country on aging tankers. Too many communities have seen what happens when trains derail and in some cases catch fire.’ – Sherrod Brown

‘It’s terrible, I know, but I will admit I was a really lazy kid. It was Bronte who would wake me up in the morning, go to training early, and take in some tips from the older training group. I would be there grumbling and complaining. After she began to reap the rewards of her labour, it definitely kindled a fire.’ – Cate Campbell

‘I really want to win a medal and would want to win gold. It’s my fire and fuel, life and dream, everything.’ – Caroline Buchanan

‘I started my first company when I was 18 and learned by trial through fire, having no formal education or entrepreneurial experience.’ – Rob Dyrdek