Fire Quotes · Page 82

Friends are like coals in a fire - together, they glow; apart, they grow cold.

— C. S. Lewis

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

— Plutarch

You're going to set us all on fire, you homicidal feral fruitcake.

— Melina Marchetta

“They have an absolute willingness to torch the landscape around them to emerge the winner.”

— Brad Stone

Catch fire today! Make today the day you stop complaining and do something!

— Steve Harvey

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

— Alfred Jarry

If I had Sirius FM and fire-breathing in a giant puppy dragon, I'd be golden.

— Adam Richman

His white boots were on fire against Arsenal, and he'll be looking for them to reproduce tonight.

— Ron Atkinson

“He looked at her for a long moment, as if remembering unfinished conversations, and then went back to place some damp, slow-burning…

— Pete Hamill

when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this…

— Ethel Smyth

Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it…

— Edward Everett Hale

“My cape caught fire. I dived to the sand and rolled on the ground to snuff the flames. So much for my…

— Maria V. Snyder

Jerusalem, if I forget you, fire not gonna come from me tongue. Jerusalem, if I forget you, let my right hand forget…

— Matisyahu

[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books…

— Judy Blume

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished…

— Dakota Fanning

At one point, Lucille's agent wanted to have me fired, telling her that my eyes were bigger than hers. When I head…

— Vivian Vance

The patient needs to believe that they can keep the fire while being medicated. The doctors must tell them, "I understand that…

— Paul Dalio

The first building she reached appeared to be an old barn. Only one young guard stood before its bolted door, staring at…

— Shannon Hale

You know," she said, stirring her tea, "the fastest way to get him off your back is to sleep with him. And…

— Ilona Andrews

I don’t know how you can stand it. Over and over again, the same sadness—” He lifted her up. “The same ecstasy—”…

— Lauren Kate

Animals are murdered to produce meat; vegetables are torn up, peeled, and chopped; most of what we eat is treated with fire;…

— Margaret Visser

Decrying the mismanagement that led to the summer's catastrophic wildfires: The Clinton administration didn't cause these fires, but their policies have left…

— Marc Racicot

Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die…

— Sherman Alexie

The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated…

— Mariella Frostrup

I decided to burn some calories so I set a fat kid on fire.

— Anonymous

They're so hell bent on giving, walking a wire, convinced it's not living if you stand outside the fire.

— Garth Brooks

Playing with me like playing with ur life an fire… now I'm the bad bitch

— Bad Brad

I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

— Scarlett Johansson

Who is blamed knows pain from the fire that burns the skin.

— Rammstein

Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove.

— Billy Sunday

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Keep the fire in the kitchen to see if it outlasts the storms and rain outside.”

— David Bergen

Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“He touched her and found fire. Tasted her and found life.”

— Maureen Child

“The fires within the earth are nothing to what you’re feeling right now, failed mother that you are.”

— N.K. Jemisin

The fire which seems out often sleeps beneath the cinders

— Anonymous

After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.

— Dorothy Thompson

Thought I'd see you, thought I'd see you, fire and rain, now.

— James Taylor

“I am the blood of the dragon. I must be strong. I must have fire in my eyes when I face them,…

— George R.R. Martin

These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.

— Clifford D. Simak