Fire Quotes

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.

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.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.

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

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.

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

I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

If you continue to work hard, let that be the fuel to your fire.

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire.

Love is friendship set on fire.