Fire Quotes - page 39

You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career. (Howard Stern)
The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target. View quote
Douglas Bader
If you held your fire until you were very close, you seldom missed. View quote
Douglas Bader
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference. View quote
Robert Fulghum
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of our speech recognition system goes up. View quote
Fred Jelinek
The foundation of all technology is fire. View quote
Isaac Asimov
I think perhaps it wasn't a good idea to read aloud Gibbon to me in the evenings, because if it's nice and hot by the fire, there's something about Gibbon that does, rather, make you go to sleep. View quote
Agatha Christie
December, herald of destruction, takes you on a long stroll through the black torsos of trees and leaves scorched in autumn's fire,as if to say: so much then for your secrets and your treasures, the fervent trill of small birds, the promises of summer months. View quote
Adam Zagajewski
But from my grave across my brow Plays no wind of healing now, And fire and ice within me fight Beneath the suffocating night. (A. E. Housman)
It is not true that Kafka wanted Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Rather it is the case that Kafka was on fire to be published...rushed to the postbox day after day...ate with editors...intrigued for favorable notices...read the Writer's Digest...consorted with critics...autographed napkins...made himself available to librarians...spoke on the radio... View quote
Donald Barthelme
I doubt not but the fire illuminating heaven on Michelmas eve was seen there – such as I never saw for the time more fearful. God sendeth us such signs but for our erudition. View quote
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
Keep a fire for the human race Let your prayers go drifting into space You never know what will be coming down Perhaps a better world is drawing near And just as easily it could all disappear. View quote
Jackson Browne
You can't ask a man to talk sensibly about the art of painting if he simply doesn't know anything about it. But by God, how can he [ Zola was his youth friend, who used Cezanne as a model in Zola's novel 'L'Oeuvre'] dare to say that a painter is done because he has painted one bad picture? When a picture isn't realized, you pitch it in the fire and start another one. View quote
Paul Cézanne
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
I have been a course, I have been an eagle. I have been a coracle in the seas: I have been compliant in the banquet. I have been a drop in a shower; I have been a sword in the grasp of the hand I have been a shield in battle. I have been a string in a harp, Disguised for nine years, in water, in foam. I have been sponge in the fire, I have been wood in the covert. View quote
Taliesin
Monks throng like a kennel of pups from disputing with the masters who instruct them whether the run of the wind is one, or one the ocean's waters or one the spark of fire - an illimitable clamour. View quote
Taliesin
When God comes A great noise will pierce us, The day of judgment terribly. Messengers from the door, Wind, and sea, and fire. lightning and thunder A number without flattery. The people of the world groaning Will be concealed. View quote
Taliesin
Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire. And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire. (Omar Khayyám)
Washington has thrown their soldiers on the fire. View quote
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD. The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal, and to hasten the resurrection of the dead. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
To love is to burn, to be on fire. View quote
Jane Austen