Quotes by category:Fire

As [John Heartfield] was playing with the fire of appearance, reality took fire around him... The scraps of photographs that he formerly manoeuvred for the pleasure of stupification, under his fingers began to signify.

appearance fire reality

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic. by Louis Diat

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.

Louis Auchincloss

fire feet writing

Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best.

truth fire names

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble. by Lou Reed

When you pass through the fire, you pass through humble.

adages fire humble

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.

fire trying water

Her mind was present because she was always gone. Her hands were filled because they grasped the meaning of empty. Life was simple. Her husband returned and she served him with indifferent patience this time. When he asked what had happened to her heat for him, she gestured to the west. The sun was setting. The sky was a body of fire.

husband simple fire

The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered.

brother fire heart

Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am... by Louise Labe

Je vis, je meurs; je me br u" le et me noie. I live, I die; I am on fire and I drown.

If you look in the Muslim World right now, the Shia, the Sunni Muslims are standing at the brink of a pit of fire started by Western intervention and influence in pitting them against each other by exploiting their divisions. So the stage is set for war in that area of the world that would destroy that area as completely as what they are calling the failed state Libya making Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq failed states.

Louis Farrakhan

It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did.

fire night america

As far as the stars are from the earth, and as different as fire is from water, so much do self-interest and integrity differ.

stars fire integrity

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die. by Lu Xun

As long as there shall be stones, the seeds of fire will not die.

fire stones long

Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, bla... by Lord Byron

Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires.

phoenix glory fire

I am ashes where once I was fire. by Lord Byron

I am ashes where once I was fire.

What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.

fireworks practicals fire

The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire. by Lucian

The effort only shifted me from the frying-pan into the fire.

frying-pans effort fire

She pulled off Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and settled down in a comfortable leather chair by the fire to read.

lighthouse virginia fire

Radio interoperability is essential for our police, fire, and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

Lucille Roybal-Allard

police fire talking

I remember the lights turning into blurs of blazing fire. I remember the air-conditioning chilling my arms. The smell of coffee smudging into the smell of eucalyptus.

Lucy Christopher

coffee light fire