"The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned……" — Ray Bradbury
"The rockets set the bony meadows afire, turned rock to lava, turned wood to charcoal, transmuted water to steam, made sand and silica into green glass which lay like shattered mirrors reflecting the invasion, all about. The rockets came like drums, beating in the night. The rockets came like locusts, swarming and settling in blooms of rosy smoke."
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Ray Bradbury
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
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Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
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Enthusiasm is a kind of faith that has been set afire
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By reading keep in a state of excited igorance, like a blind man in a house afire; flounder around, immensely…
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A being afire with life cannot foresee death; in fact, by each of his deeds he denies that death exists.
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In every man s life there lies latent energy. There is, however, a spark that, if kindled, will set the…
— James Cash Penney
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Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to…
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We have been just going like a house afire, and we couldent see any reason why we shouldent keep right…
— Will Rogers
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up…
— Jose Marti
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When left to its own devices it tends to make me look as if I’ve been set afire.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.
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