The Fire Quotes

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.

I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoohah! Apparently I have a lot of amniotic fluid, so whenever my water breaks it will be like a fire hydrant!

I've never been able to learn from other people's mistakes - I'm not that smart - so I usually learn by trial by fire.

Tell the men to fire faster and not to give up the ship; fight her till she sinks.

All we see and admire today will burn in the universal fire that ushers in a new, just, happy world.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

My pigment is of the earth, and collecting my sacred fire from my solar plexus with the central sun of the earth.

O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

We were ensconced as guests of the exclusive Beverly Hilton Hotel, an edifice so swank that the fire ax in the hall outside our suite said: "In case of fire-break crystal."

When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood.

Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

Poetry is frosted fire.

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

Man is the animal who weeps and laughs - and writes. If the first Prometheus brought fire from heaven in a fennel-stalk, the last will take it back - in a book.

Desire of power, on earth a vicious weed, Yet, sprung from high, is of celestial seed: In God 'tisglory; and when men aspire, 'Tis but a spark too much of heavenly fire.

No one is going to fire me now. If and when I leave, I'll be the one to make the decision

Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

The great man who thinks greatly of himself, is not diminishing that greatness in heaping fuel on his fire.

A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.

I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage, Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.

Well I'm a sire, I set the microphone on fire, Rap styles vary, and carry like Mariah

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

The contradictory, consuming, contested relationship between detail and whole, event an eventuality, breathes fire and wisdom in every great work of art.

That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...

I'm pretty cerebral, so I can occasionally rationalize emotional pain away, but when I can't, that's when I start to feel the fire inside take over and somehow manage to power through.

The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

I will allow only my Lord to possess my sacred lotus pond, and every night you can make blossom in me flowers of fire.

I have been waiting twenty years for someone to say to me: "You have to fight fire with fire" so that I could reply, "That's funny-I always use water."

There can no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

Burning logs can carry on quite a conversation! ... Have you ever heard apple wood talking? It's the most loquacious of all. You really can't get a word in edgeways.

Humanity is the start of the race; I say Humanity is the mould to break away from, the crust to break through, the coal to break into fire, The atom to be split.

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . .

Wars do not end wars any more than an extraordinarily large conflagration does away with the fire hazard.

until you are master over the earth and air and water and fire in yourself, how can you be master of the elements of Nature?

Be thankful that your lot has fallen on times when, though there may be many evil tongues and exasperated spirits, there are none who have fire and fagot at command.

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland

Some kids do drugs. Some kids light stuff on fire. Me, I eat oats.

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?