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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
Mignon McLaughlin
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.
Franz Kafka
There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up.
Masashi Kishimoto
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.
Peter Zumthor
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire.
Ingeborg Bachmann
I secretly understood the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire.
John Updike
But when the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
Thomas Paine
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.
George Eliot
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
Harry Houdini
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god.
J. B. S. Haldane
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.
Fernand Léger
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....
Jack Kerouac
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
Robert Frost
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .
Henry James
I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton
The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.
Morihei Ueshiba
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death.
Samuel Johnson
It takes two flints to make a fire.
Louisa May Alcott
American institutionalists were not theoretical but anti-theoretical.... Without a theory they had nothing to pass on except a mass of descriptive material waiting for a theory, or a fire.
Ronald Coase
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
Emil Cioran
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya Angelou
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