Fire Quote by Sharon Olds Download Open image ““...the liquor like fire in his hand”” — Sharon Olds ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fire
“He was a late night shot of bourbon the taste of him left me burning with mouth on fire body full of desire.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“His hand appears and wraps around my wrist, and my whole bloody body bursts into flames.” — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
“For a second, fire flared inside of him, not like mine, but the fire of a man about to lose control.” — M. R. Noble Copy Share Image
“He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the… — Françoise Sagan Copy Share Image
“He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked - crowds of people milling.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Liquor is a good servant but a fucking cruel master. You keep going the way you were, and you’ll be more than fucked.” — Tillie Cole Copy Share Image
“Now that part of his head which nature designed for the reservoir of drink being very shallow, a small quantity of liquor overflowed it… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“His touch is more intoxicating than any kind and combination of alcohol...” — Kiran Joshi Copy Share Image
“He extended his fingers and felt them tingle, like they were waking up—pins and needles. Then flames flickered to life, curls of red-hot fire… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“How do they do it, the ones who make love without love? How do they come to the come to the come to the… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“as if languagelessness was a step up, in evolution, from the chatter of consciousness.” — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Maybe we can use a metaphor for it, out of dance. I think for many years I was aware of the need, in dance… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
“I put my arms around a trunk and squeezed it, then I lay down on my father's grave.” — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think. — Sharon Olds 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… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
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… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
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… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
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,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
