Fire Quotes · Page 61

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

— Victor Borge

Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like…

— Joy Kogawa

“She didn't feel like a girl when he kissed her, but like fire in a girl's form, burning and hungry.”

— Katherine Harbour

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

— Richard Steele

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

— Ezra Pound

“If you immediately know the candlelight is fire, then the meal was cooked a long time ago.”

— Oma Desala

“Chemistry is you touching my arm and it setting fire to my mind" Nayyirah Waheed”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“I have become a gate To the ruined city, dry, / Indestructible by fire.”

— Howard Nemerov

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment…

— Paulo Coelho

...if the spell was off, I’d have my heart eaten before I could turn around.” “Don’t you want your heart eaten?” asked…

— Diana Wynne Jones

This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall…

— John Wesley

“Fire consumes.' Lord Beric stood behind them, and there was something in his voice that silenced Thoros at once. 'It consumes, and…

— George R.R. Martin

Just as the thought of fire does not warm the body, so faith without love does not actualize the light of spiritual…

— Maximus the Confessor

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set…

— Loni Anderson

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, so they lit a fire in the craft. Unsurprisingly it sank, proving once again…

— Nikhil Saluja

Your intelligence is a fire that can illuminate any darkness. Awaken and let your mind burn so brightly! You are alive for…

— Anonymous

“Well,there's not much more to see," Bill said. "Just the usual routine of a building catching fire-smoke, walls of flame,people screaming and…

— Lauren Kate

At night returning, every labour sped, He sits him down, the monarch of a shed; Smiles by his cheerful fire, and round…

— Oliver Goldsmith

We must frankly confess, then, using our empirical common sense and ordinary practical prejudices, that in the world that actually is, the…

— William James

This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can…

— Lois McMaster Bujold

World's flying like birds; my car's in flight. The city lights are spattered on my windshield like the fragments of the night.…

— Tanith Lee

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to…

— Thomas Merton

I don't jerk off because I'm horny. I'm sort of half-chick. It's like District 9. I can fire alien weapons. I can…

— John Mayer

“I remember a coworker coming into my office in the morning to tell me he was switching off the DeSoto Solar Farm…

— Steven Magee

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Traveler's heart. Never settled long in one place. Like a portable fire.

— Matsuo Basho

“Why is it that the saints of June are honored with fire?”

— Carolina Maria de Jesus

“Camp fires, like red, peculiar blossoms, dotted the night.”

— Stephen Crane

Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool!

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“Sky and sea, keep harm from me. Earth and fire, bring… my desire.”

— Anonymous

Man might have identified fire, but women identified the way to enjoy with it.

— Candace Bushnell

Anybody who recognizes Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nation's fury.

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

— Rick Riordan

“Some people fight fire with fire. I've found water to be more effective.”

— Adrianne Ambrose

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

— Muhammad Ali

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

— Chris Rock

I'm really into music, I'm really into art, and I want to keep that fire alive.

— Devin Townsend

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

“It is an heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in't.”

— William Shakespeare

“He has lost his print upon the earth; he has lost any fire.”

— Philippa Gregory