Quotes by Fire To save the audience we must fill the stage with murderers, adulterers and madmen; in short, we must fire a salvo of monsters at them. They are our monster which we will temporarily free ourselves from only to face another day. Nelson Rodrigues firefacesmonsters She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful. Neil Gaiman firebeautifulway My family traveled with a whole community to European festivals. My mum did gymnastics, freak show performances, and swung fire in the circus, so I followed her footsteps. Neon Hitch gymnasticscommunityfire People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades. Nguyen Viet Thang firewarthinking If one lights a fire for others, one will brighten one's own way. Nichiren lightfireway A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire Nelson Mandela fightingstrugglefire The way you get leaders to care about issues of conscience is to apply political pressure. It's less a question of persuading leaders directly and more trying to build a social movement that holds their feet to the fire. Nicholas D. Kristof issuesfirefeet No man may earn his heart's desire, lest first he brave the smoke and fire Nicholas Evans fireheartmen The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all makes sense and you know what it's about and why you're doing it and what these people are saying and doing, and you get to feel like both the creator and the audience. Everything is suddenly both obvious and surprising ("but of course that's why he was doing that, and that means that...") and it's magic and wonderful and strange. Neil Gaiman firewritingmean Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. They’re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they don’t approve of tyrannical enterprises – no pun intended – and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American. Nicholas Meyer firementhinking For our intellectual spirit has the power of fire in itself. For no other purpose is it sent by God to the earth than that it glow and grow into a flame. When it is excited by admiration, then it grows, just as if the wind entering into a fire excited its potential to actuality. If we apprehend the works of God, we marvel at eternal wisdom. Nicholas of Cusa flamesfirewind If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions? Nicholas Negroponte fireanswersdoors There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream about huge black helicopters first opening fire upon, then dropping buckets of flaming napalm onto the offices of the Grahame Coats agency. Fat Charlie would not be in the office in those daydreams. He would be sitting in a chair outside a little cafe on the other side of Aldwych, sipping a frothy coffee and occasionally cheering at an exceptionally well-flung bucket of napalm. Neil Gaiman coffeecheerfire Belinda stared into the fire for some time, thinking about what she had in her life, and what she had given up; and whether it would be worse to love someone who was no longer there, or not to love someone who was. Neil Gaiman firewould-bethinking Victor: What does it feel like to be in love? Creature: It feels like everything is boiling over and spilling out of me; it feels like my lungs are on fire, and my heart is a hammer, and I feel like I can do anything...I feel like I can do anything in the world. Nick Dear firedoeheart You know you can set fire to the capacity to say. Neil Gaiman capacityfireknows I'm a very intermediate sax player, but now that Rob Lowe is on my show, I had to cop to him. Like, 'Dude your ridiculous fake sax playing [in St. Elmo's Fire] inspired me to pick up a horn.' Nick Offerman fakeplayerfire I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire. Nick Vujicic purposefireinspirational Ambition is a devouring fire, who can poise it? It is a wind, who can fathom it? It is an abyss, who is able to recount the sources and issues thereof? Nicolas Caussin ambitionfirewind You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women. Neil Gaiman machinesgunfire«128129130131132133134135136137138»
