Flames Quotes

• In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • World
  • War
  • Movie

• But that mimosa grove-the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since-until at last, twenty-four years later, I broke her spell by incarnating her in another.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Girl
  • Broke
  • Ache

• I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Flames
  • Kicks
  • Shithouse

• If i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow

  

  Rumi
  • Life
  • Body
  • Story

• There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Kind
  • Breakup
  • Snuff

• Though Satan instils his poison, and fans the flames of our corrupt desires within us,we are yet not carried by any external force to the commission of sin, but our own flesh entices us, and we willingly yield to its allurements.

  

  John Calvin
  • Sin
  • Desires
  • Poison

• The fire inside people is like a match; the way to ignite that flame is initially through friction, then other matches are lit through warmth.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • People
  • Fire
  • Warmth

• Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

  

  Bono U2
  • Africa
  • Flames
  • Brigade

• Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

  

  Harry Houdini
  • Lips
  • Flames
  • Gasoline

• Should a person on returning from the city discover his house to be in flames, let him examine well the change which he has received from the chair-carrier before it is too late; for evil never travels alone.

  

  Ernest Bramah
  • Change
  • Travels
  • Returning

• There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

  

  Nicollette Sheridan
  • Hair
  • Firsts
  • Gone

• There are fires, vast and endless, that burn in me for you. And I will carry them until you are ready to walk through the Flames of me.

  

  William C. Hannon
  • Carry
  • Burn
  • Flames

• ...A fuel-less flame is nothing but a wraith, However wrought, if unsustained by passion.

  

  Nick Gordon
  • Passion
  • Flames
  • Hanukkah

• Just as camphor is consumed by the flames of fire, so also, mind must be consumed by soul-fire.

  

  Bhagawan Nityananda
  • Soul
  • Flames
  • Consumed

• I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Wisdom
  • Bible
  • Flames

• The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • World
  • Greatness
  • Shining

• Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Play
  • Fire
  • Flames

• The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

  

  Ernie Pyle
  • Grew
  • Flames
  • Fireman

• I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other's enemies. The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Enemies
  • Flames
  • American People

• You know, every time a vampire says he doesn't believe in lycanthropes, a werewolf bursts into flames.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Believe
  • Vampire
  • Flames

• The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • World
  • Feels
  • Feet

• Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

  

  Ernst Zundel
  • Sleep
  • Rooms
  • Smoke

• How shall I admire, how laugh, how rejoice, how exult, when I behold so many proud monarchs groaning in the lowest abyss of darkness; so many magistrates liquefying in fiercer flames than they ever kindled against the Christians; so many sages philosophers blushing in red-hot fires with their deluded pupils; so many tragedians more tuneful in the expression of their own sufferings; so many dancers tripping more nimbly from anguish then ever before from applause.

  

  Tertullian
  • Proud
  • Christians
  • Philosophers

• The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

  

  William Sharp
  • Desire
  • Heaven
  • Forever

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