Quotes by Fire If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux ancestryfirelife One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down. Nicolas Cage carfireinteresting Nothing is really lost or can be lost, No birth, identity, form--no object of the world, Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing... The body, sluggish, aged , cold--the embers left from early fires, ...shall duly flame again Nicholas Sparks flamesidentityfire I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre. Neil Gaiman artistfiremoving We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm. Nicolas Chamfort firehousejustice The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from. Nicolas Cage firefeelingsmen I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception. Nikki Reed insatiable-hungerfirepeople True life is creativity, not development: it is the freedom for creative acts, for creative fire, rather than necessity and the heaviness of congealing self-perfection. Nikolai Berdyaev creativityselffire The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards. Nikolai Gogol errorsfirelaughing The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power. Nikola Tesla flamesfiremay I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle. I should fill my soul with flesh. I should fill my flesh with soul. In fact, I should reconcile at last within me the two internal antagonists. Nikos Kazantzakis horsefirerunning Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God. Nikos Kazantzakis lightfireevil If an invisible man catches on fire, can you see him burn? Noah invisiblefiremen I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can later try to put them out. But I don't like that kind of thing. Noah Baumbach firemeanpeople What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly. Nora Roberts what-iffirewindow What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. How easy that seems! Has any one ever done so? Never. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire. Norman Douglas teachingfiremen Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself. Norman Douglas readingfiremen I completely understand why a businessman would fire me from 'Saturday Night Live'. Because he was seeing Jay Leno kill 10 minutes a night, doing his monologue with wall-to-wall laughs and applause, then I do 10 minutes a week to, sometimes, breathtaking silence. He's just listening for the laughs. Norm MacDonald wallfirenight I had the blood and fire rule when my boys were young. You know, unless it's blood or fire, don't bother me. Nora Roberts fireboysblood Marriage is a land mine. A really intimate land mine. Adultery to kitchen fires. Never a dull [moment]. Nora Roberts marriagelandfire«129130131132133134135136137138139»
