Fire Quotes

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.

I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.

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.

There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.

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?

Envy like fire always makes for the highest points.

To-night 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon.

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.

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

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.

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.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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

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

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

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

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.

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.