The home is the empire! There is no peace more delightful than one's own fireplace. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather. — Red Skelton Copy Share Image
I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. — Gregory Corso Copy Share Image
I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient. — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Comedy clubs have brick walls behind the performer. Bricks make you funny. When I'm in front of a fireplace, I'm hilarious. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on… — Cory Monteith Copy Share Image
I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed… — George Matthew Adams Copy Share Image
I left him in his wheelchair, staring sadly into the fireplace. I wondered how many times he’d sat here, waiting for heroes… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The great love is gone. There are still little loves - friend to friend, brother to sister, student to teacher. Will you… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
You don't have to shoot me," says the young lion. "I will be your rug and I will lie in front of… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then… — Phil Foglio Copy Share Image
The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient… — William Kurelek Copy Share Image
I don't know why, but the warmth and the comfort of flickering light help. And a fire, in the fireplace or on… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that… — Brian May Copy Share Image
I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
[Maigret Sets a Trap] was always going to be the first film, and it seemed to be quite a nice story. But… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I'm never going to believe a Poirot mystery again. Never. All those witnesses going, "Yes, I remember it was 3:06 p.m. exactly,… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
If she were (looking into my eyes), she’d have seen how absolutely floored I was the first time I finally, truly saw… — Kiera Cass Copy Share Image
September has come, it is hers Whose vitality leaps in the autumn, Whose nature prefers Trees without leaves and a fire in… — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Emma took the revelation, on polygamy supposed she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it,… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,'… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I had you pictured dead in a pool of blood in front of the fireplace. And now you show up alive, and… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a… — William Booth Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if you have a picture of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, or Elvis over your fireplace. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
I can't be No. 1 with an MVP trophy. I could be No. 1 with the championship ring and the championship trophy… — Jeff Kent Copy Share Image
But you can't just sit around the fireplace and sip Cokes and eat pretzels and get an attitude of confidence. You have… — Lee Haney Copy Share Image
I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image