Set Fire Quotes

57 quotes by 47 authors

I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in… — Adolf Hitler
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives… — Kenji Miyazawa
As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf… — Thomas Merton
I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river.… — Jerry Lee Lewis
What shall we Christians do now with this depraved and damned people of the Jews? ... I will give my faithful advice: First, that one… — Martin Luther
I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house. — Zlatan Ibrahimovic
A good song should make you wanna tap your foot and get with your girl. A great song should destroy cops and set fire to… — Tom Morello
One does not set fire to a world which is already lost — Friedrich Durrenmatt
With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be… — Swami Vivekananda
Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with… — Tacitus
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth,… — George Catlin
The biggest lie is the idea that we are entitled to a meaningful and coherent summarizing, a conclusion, of something which never concludes. In that… — David Milch
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I do have a stunt double because there are certain things that they won't let me do. Like they won't set fire to me. They… — Alex O'Loughlin
I am not feeling any better because I cannot stay in bed, having constant cause for walking. They say I leave at night by the… — Camille Claudel
Eloquence may set fire to reason. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. — Ellen Glasgow
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet. — Mason Cooley
I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity. — Marilyn Manson
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper,… — Mignon McLaughlin

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