Bridgett Devoue Quotes

If it doesn't burn a little then what's the point of playing with fire?

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• I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Myself
  • Fire
  • Tried

• 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
  • War
  • Morning
  • Fire

• 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
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Dark

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

  

  Rachel Field
  • Opinion
  • Fire
  • Wind

• 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
  • Good
  • Real
  • Fire

• 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
  • Home
  • Fire
  • Gun

• 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
  • Justice
  • Fire
  • Argument

• 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
  • Remember
  • Father
  • Science

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Art
  • Book
  • Wife

• Begin, ephebe, by perceiving the idea Of this invention, this invented world, The inconceivable idea of the sun.You must become an ignorant man again And see the sun again with an ignorant eye And see it clearly in the idea of it.Never suppose an inventing mind as source Of this idea nor for that mind compose A voluminous master folded in his fire.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fire

• while lighting a fire on the beach Fuck! Go to Alaska! No, no, no, no. You fucking asshole ocean! No!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Fire
  • Ocean
  • Beach

• Upon him I will visit famine and a fire.Till all around him desolation ringsAnd all the demons in the outer darkLook on amazed and recognizeThat vengeance is the business of a man.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Business
  • Fire

• Sometimes I see you And you don't know why I'm there And I'm washed away by emotions I hold deep down inside Getting stronger with time It's living through the fire And holding on we find That's what love is for …

  

  Amy Grant
  • Time
  • Why
  • Deep

• I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Music
  • Fire
  • Lit

• Betty White is so old that on her first game show ever, the prize was fire.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Game
  • Fire

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Moral

• I remember seeing the first episode of '24' when I was 13, and to be that face for a 13-year-old and open up that possibility, it shows you the world isn't on fire. There's possibility there.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Up
  • World
  • Remember

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

  

  Arnold H. Glasow
  • Success
  • Fire

• Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

  

  Pierre Charron
  • Children
  • Rest
  • Fire

• What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• What idiocy, to racing into this story and its labyrinths, sprinting away from our happiness among the fresh spring grasses by the oak.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Spring
  • Racing
  • Labyrinth

• Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • People
  • Die
  • Waiting

• If it doesn't burn a little then what's the point of playing with fire?

  

  Bridgett Devoue
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