Quotes on Fire

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

Author: Aesop

It takes two flints to make a fire.

Author: Louisa Alcott

Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire.

Author: Mohammed al-Sahaf

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

Author: Henri Amiel

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

Author: Richard Bach

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

Author: Red Barber

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

Author: Buffalo Bill

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?

Author: Erma Bombeck

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

Author: David Bowie

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Author: Dorthea Brande

You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire.

Author: Garth Brooks

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Author: Edmund Burke

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?

Author: David Carradine

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.

Author: Nancy Cartwright

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.

Author: Jay Chiat

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.

Author: Camille Claudel

I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.

Author: Roger Clemens

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Author: Ty Cobb

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

Author: Sean Connery

I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.

Author: Tre Cool

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Author: Mason Cooley

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

Author: Hope Davis

You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.

Author: Peter Dawson

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.

Author: James Dickey

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.

Author: Kenelm Digby

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.

Author: Frederick Douglass

One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.

Author: Friedrich Durrenmatt

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.

Author: George Eliot

I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted.

Author: Rachel Field

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

Author: Thom Filicia

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.

Author: Robert Fulghum

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Author: Solomon Gabirol

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Author: Ellen Glasgow

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.

Author: John Glover

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.

Author: Vincent Gogh

Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source.

Author: Andy Goldsworthy

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

Author: Andy Goldsworthy

I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.

Author: Zane Grey

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.

Author: Gary Gygax

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.

Author: Robert Hall

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?

Author: Stephen Hawking

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

Author: Heraclitus

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Author: Hippocrates

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

Author: Eric Hoffer

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Author: Abbie Hoffman

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

Author: Mark Hoppus

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

Author: Harry Houdini

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Author: Harry Houdini

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Author: Victor Hugo

I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.

Author: Reggie Jackson

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

Author: Clive James

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

Author: Pamela Johnson

You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

Author: Franklin Jones

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

Author: Franz Kafka

To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.

Author: Dean Kamen

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Author: Mitchell Kapor

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.

Author: Kevin Kelly

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

Author: Imran Khan

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.

Author: Rudyard Kipling

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

Author: Karl Kraus

They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did.

Author: Burt Lancaster

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

Author: Chris LeDoux

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

Author: John Legend

Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.

Author: Fernand Leger

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.

Author: Ron Livingston

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

Author: James Longstreet

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.

Author: James Longstreet

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

Author: Amy Lowell

How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?

Author: Kamisese Mara

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

Author: Ed Markey

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.

Author: Ed Markey

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.

Author: Henry Mayhew

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

Author: Ethel Merman

Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.

Author: Ronnie Montrose

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?

Author: Max Muller

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

Author: Knute Nelson

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Author: Richard Nixon

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

Author: Ovid

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.

Author: Dolly Parton

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Author: Dolly Parton

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.

Author: Bill Pascrell

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.

Author: Luke Perry

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.

Author: David Petraeus

I've got friends who are pyrotechnics who do big fire shows, so I'm really fascinated by that.

Author: Rosamund Pike

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.

Author: Michael Pitt

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Author: Plutarch

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Author: Edgar Poe

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

Author: Martin Puryear

It was a night when London was ringed and stabbed with fire.

Author: Ernie Pyle

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.

Author: Buddy Rich

Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire.

Author: Leonard Rose

Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much.

Author: Izabella Scorupco

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Author: Bobby Scott

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.

Author: Robert Service

It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us.

Author: Giuliana Sgrena

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Author: William Shakespeare

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Author: George Shaw

I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.

Author: Charlie Sheen

"Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.

Author: Craig Shirley

I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

Author: Dinah Shore

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

Author: Charles Simmons

No. Better research needed. Fire your research person. No fishnet stockings. Never. Not in this band.

Author: Gene Simmons

We didn't have a drill so he would burn the holes through the wood with a metal rod that he heated up in a fire. Can you imagine an ordinary crew doing that?

Author: Marc Singer

What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

Author: Agnes Smedley

Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire.

Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire.

Author: Catherine Spence

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

Author: Wallace Stevens

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Author: Publilius Syrus

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Author: Tertullian

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Author: Dylan Thomas

I fought fire with oil.

Author: Dalton Trumbo

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Author: Mark Twain

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all.

Author: Keenen Wayans

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

Author: Len Wein

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.

Author: H. Wells

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.

Author: Tennessee Williams

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

Author: J. Yeats

Remember, the most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Author: Ferdinand Foch

Light up the darkness with the fire within you.

Author: Samantha Stevens

The same spark that ignites the fire in others can light your path to greatness

Author: Jasmine Grant

Love is the fuel that keeps the fire of passion burning bright.

Author: Sophia Martinez

Embrace the fire within you and let it propel you to new heights.

Author: Sofia Reynolds

Embrace the fire within you, for it has the power to forge greatness.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez