Quotes by Fire Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire. Rumi touchedbodyfire There is no articulate resonance. The common problem, I suppose, is to have more to say than vocabulary and syntax can bear. That is why I am hunting in these desiccated streets. The smoke hides the sky's variety, stains consciousness, covers the holocaust with something safe and insubstantial. It protects from greater flame. It indicates fire, but obscures the source. This is not a useful city. Very little here approaches any eidolon of the beautiful. Samuel R. Delany huntingfirebeautiful Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down. Samuel Pepys firewingsrunning Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back. Samuel Beckett firegoneyears Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, Samuel Rogers firesummerclouds Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers us. Samuel Rutherford hammersmoldfire Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment. Samuel Richardson romanceimaginationfire The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning. Sandra Cisneros firehousepeople Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast. Samuel Taylor Coleridge geniusfirehot Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat. Sara Coleridge decemberchillfire Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it. Sara Coleridge flamesreligiousfire About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night. Samuel Taylor Coleridge balletfirenight Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold, Let it be forgotten forever and ever, Time is a kind friend, he will make us old. Sara Teasdale flowerfiretime While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire. Sara Paretsky catholicfirepeople Falsehood is fire in stubble; it likewise turns all the light stuff around it into its own substance for a moment, one crackling blazing moment, and then dies; and all its converts are scattered in the wind, without place or evidence of their existence, as viewless as the wind which scatters them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge lightfirewind She was the heir of ash and fire, and she would bow to no one. Sarah J. Maas ashesinspirationfire Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own. Sarah Mlynowski lightningfirelife Don't scatter your fire! You are a prose writer: stick to your own tool! Sarah Orne Jewett toolssticksfire Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. Samuel Johnson firebookhands I go wading into the fire fit, but the conservative movement - jeez. Look at Milo [Yiannopoulos]. He's in his twenties. He's flamboyantly gay. We're nowhere near the conservative movement here. Ideologically he's pure. Ideologically he's brave, he's right down the line. Rush Limbaugh gaybravefire«157158159160161162163164165166167»
