Fire Quotes

• If you could breathe a breath so strong you could blow out the wolf. Like you blow out the copo. Like you blow out the fire from the candela. The wolf is made the way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • World
  • Strong
  • Hand

• I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

  

  Lynn Westmoreland
  • Women
  • Fire

• I walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, 'I'm thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.' And I looked him right in the eye and said, 'Man, you've got the wrong guy. I'm gonna have to fire myself. You've got to hire somebody else.'

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Guy

• Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire...

  

  Robby Krieger The Doors
  • Night
  • Light
  • Fire

• I just love the idea of never seeing a city before and seeing the glow in the distance, and it just looking frightening, like you're driving into a fire.

  

  Kevin Morby
  • City
  • Driving
  • Distance

• Apple is on fire, delivering smash hits across its entire product line. It's hard to think of another company that has ever been on such a roll.

  

  Daniel Lyons
  • Fire

• Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.

  

  Plato
  • God
  • Nature
  • Universe

• My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

  

  Jean-Jacques Annaud
  • American
  • Style
  • Personality

• My radio's loud like a fire alarm: The floor vibrates, the walls cave in, The bass makes my eardrums seem thin. Def sounds in my ride, yes the front and back... You would think it was a party, not a Cadillac!

  

  LL Cool J
  • Thinking
  • Party
  • Wall

• In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents.

  

  Agnes Smedley
  • She
  • Fire

• We have a nice veteran team. To have seven seniors is outstanding and it's a mix that has been running since freshman year. They were thrown into the fire early and have come along nicely.

  

  Ken Russell
  • Team
  • Running
  • Nice

• And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Together
  • Two
  • Rage

• In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.

  

  Joan Didion
  • Fire

• We're all embers from the same fire. Our ember winks out, we're ashes, we go back to the fire.

  

  William Shatner
  • Fire
  • Ashes
  • Embers

• The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Heart
  • Light
  • Path

• 'Pale Fire' by Vladimir Nabokov was bloody hard work but really thrilling.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Work
  • Fire

• I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • War
  • Guy
  • Fire

• I am sitting on the sofa. By the fire and staying in. Me head is free of comfort And me nose is free of skin Me friends have run for cover, They have left me pale and sick With me pockets full of tissues And me nostrils full of Vick.

  

  Pam Ayres
  • Free
  • Comfort
  • Head

• We can never totally return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders, ... We simply cannot afford to make Israel 14.48 km (9 miles) wide again at its center. We can't allow the Palestinians to be a couple of [miles] from [Tel Aviv's] Ben-Gurion Airport in the age of shoulder-fire missiles with the capacity to shoot down jumbo jets. But that doesn't mean we must remain in every corner of the West Bank or in Gaza, where fewer than 10,000 Jews, living next to 1.3 million Palestinians, have been protected by twice as many soldiers.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Age
  • Couple
  • Soldiers

• Sarah Palin is very pro-life of course, unless the life is that of an Iraqi civilian or a wolf running frantically from a roaring helicopter while being strafed with ribbons of automatic weapons fire.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Life
  • Running
  • Weapons

• On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Night
  • Car
  • Police

• Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director

  

  David Mamet
  • Fire
  • Coffee

• The only day I will worry is if I stop getting exciting roles. As an actor, I have so much to give. There's a lot of fire and hunger in me to juice every part that I get.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Stop
  • Worry
  • Fire

• I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • World
  • Work

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