Fire Quotes

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

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

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!

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.

The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age.

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.

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

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

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

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.

I got my dog back, in African-American language, your dog means your passion, your fire.

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.

Every idea is an incitement... Eloquence may set fire to reason.

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.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

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.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

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.

If you fire people, you fire customers.

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.

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.

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

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.