Fire Quotes

• Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • Work
  • Free
  • Film

• My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

  

  Jim Leyland
  • Fire
  • Baseball

• When I was trying to impress Kate, I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time.

  

  Prince William
  • Time
  • Trying
  • She

• What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again.

  

  Agnes Smedley
  • Up
  • Couple
  • Fire

• That learning process has been likened to the challenge of having someone open a fire hydrant and expect you to swallow it all.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Fire

• Ramp hawkers were peddling 'methods,' low priced sure-fire theories guaranteed to predict bottle twitches and beat the whole Minimax game. The hawkers were ignored by the hurrying throngs of people; anybody with a genuine system of prediction would be using it, not selling it.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • People
  • Game
  • Fire

• Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Simple
  • Evil
  • Storm

• I was not great behind the counter. I had a week off without asking for it. Another time, we had a cart go up in flames, and we went out on another cart, which we wrecked by running it into the cart that was on fire.

  

  Mike Weir
  • Running
  • Week
  • Behinds

• I am a hardcore foodie, which means I love to eat. I was also born with cerebral palsy, which means I shake all the time - so cooking is not my thing, as I am banned from being around knives and fire. Those who cannot cook, watch, and I am obsessed with cooking shows.

  

  Maysoon Zayid
  • Time
  • Fire
  • Cooking

• Beauty is a simple passion,but, oh my friends, in the endyou will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Friends
  • Simple
  • Passion

• I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

  

  Emeril Lagasse
  • Time
  • Son
  • Safety

• When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

  

  George Carey
  • Prayer
  • Fire

• The drone war takes place 24/7, 365 days a year. The war doesn't stop on Christmas. It's like being a fireman when there's a fire every single day, day after day after day. That's emotionally and physically taxing.

  

  P. W. Singer
  • War
  • Stop
  • Single

• If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

  

  Buddy Wakefield
  • Child
  • Questions
  • God's image

• Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Violence
  • Fire
  • Deliberate

• You market when you hire and when you fire. You market when you call tech support, and you market every time you send a memo.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Support
  • Marketing
  • Memos

• I think working with the primal elements of fire and earth appealed greatly to my father because of the almost magical results.

  

  Claude Picasso
  • Father
  • Earth
  • Fire

• That orbed maiden with white fire laden, Whom mortals call the moon.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Fire
  • Moon

• When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn't catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards.

  

  Jenny Offill
  • Fire

• We are insisting and we will continue to insist that this faith of the church must continue to be upheld come rain, come fire. That is our position.

  

  Peter Akinola
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Rain

• ... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Hair
  • Door
  • Young Woman

• A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Power
  • Fire
  • Forest

• 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.

  

  George Catlin
  • Hand
  • Sun
  • Silence

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