Fire Quotes
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Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
Paul de Man -
I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.
Marcel Proust
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I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.
Steve Martin -
I am ashes where once I was fire.
Lord Byron -
When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
Bradford Cox -
Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.
Sara Teasdale -
She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.
George Eliot
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The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.
Edith Södergran -
They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it'll have to hit.
Ray Bradbury -
Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.
Thomas Kinkade -
If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
George Stillman Hillard -
Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me
Ray LaMontagne -
Be aware that the fire that does not grow is extinguished.
Chiara Lubich
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When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.
Rene Girard -
What is desire? The impulse to make someone else complete? That woman would set sodden straw on fire.
Theodore Roethke -
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
Seneca the Younger -
As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.
Conn Iggulden -
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.
Ben Sherwood -
That was the first time I did coke. My body, it was electric. For the first time in my life I felt as if I had a real heart and a real body and I knew that there was this fire in me that could have lit up the entire universe. No book had ever made me feel that way. No human being had ever made me feel like that.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.
Ethel Waters -
Into the deep blue, we’ll do this together- water and fire, reach higher. There’s no turning back.
Beatrice Miller -
You must not use wood to put out the fire.
Bette Lord -
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
Harry Houdini