Fire Quote by Billy Wilder Download Open image “The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire.” — Billy Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fire Inspirational Playing with fire Writing
I'm making the art for me first. I'm making it because these are the pictures I want to see. I'm making pictures that don't… — Ryan McGinley Copy Share Image
There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images. — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else — Alan Ladd Copy Share Image
I believe that producing pictures, as I do, is almost solely a question of wanting so very much to do it well. — M. C. Escher Copy Share Image
I'm interested in all kinds of pictures, however they are made, with cameras, with paint brushes, with computers, with anything. — David Hockney Copy Share Image
There's a good many pictures I'd like to make; we'll see how many I'll be allowed to make — Terrence Malick Copy Share Image
I think pictures to appeal to those over 30 can be made with quality and on a budget. — Mike Connors Copy Share Image
All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind. — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
Photos are just electronic reproductions of the past. I see nothing valuable in photos. Burning photos seems like an option, since we've this perception… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I just always think, 'Do I like it?' And if I like it, maybe other people will come and like it too. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Helen: You've got talent and ambition. Don: Talent? Ambition? That's dead long ago. That's drowned. That's drifting around with a bloated belly on a… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I hate that word. It's return--a return to the millions of people who've never forgiven me for deserting the screen. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I, you know, am all over the place — every category of pictures I have made, good, bad or indifferent. I could not make,… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning sunlight hitting the gray tin of the rain spout in front of her house. The ringing of a telephone that sounds like Beethoven's "Pastoral." A letter scribbled on her office stationery that you carry around in… — Billy Wilder Copy Share
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut. — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in real slow. I wanted it to hurt; wanted my outside to feel as bad as my inside. I sat there a long time watching my skin turn redder and redder... Finally my insides was as fiery… — Susan Crandall Copy Share
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy to imagine a future in which growing numbers of cities have their frail and long-neglected infrastructures knocked out by disasters and then are left to rot, their core services never repaired or rehabilitated. — Naomi Klein Copy Share
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold… the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as to refuse good bank notes because there are false ones in circulation; and although we see here and there manifestations of what appears to us to be nothing more than mere earthly fire, we none… — William Booth Copy Share
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share
