Fire Quotes
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I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now.
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
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My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me.
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The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.
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You cannot over estimate how infantile men are about sex! Men are people that have sex BECAUSE they have a headache... or are on fire, or have been shot in the head, or whatever it is!
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I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
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A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended.
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Fire the doubters out of your life.
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Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.
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You may fire when you are ready Gridley.
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You have two options when you approach a hostile checkpoint in a war zone, and each is a gamble. The first is to stop and identify yourself as a journalist and hope that you are respected as a neutral observer. The second is to blow past the checkpoint and hope the soldiers guarding it don't open fire on you.
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To ignite your life you must focus on ONE Thing long enough for it to catch fire.
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Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.
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I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?
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On the way back we were constantly under heavy shell fire and I had to double time them to get them through safely. There was nothing to be gained by having any more of them wounded or killed. They had surrendered to me, and it was up to me to look after them. And so I did.
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When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket.
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Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.
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I am, it is safe to say, not a practical man. The few attempts I've made to hammer in a nail have ended in broken thumbs, burst pipes, and water spraying everywhere with the house on fire.
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And we edit to let the fire show through the smoke.
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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire.
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If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.
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In no way can it be uttered, as can other things, which one can learn. Rather, from out of a full, co-existential dwelling with the thing itself - as when a spark, leaping from the fire, flares into light - so it happens, suddenly, in the soul, there to grow, alone with itself.
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I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is - its irresistible charm - a fire.
