Quotes by Fire When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup. Ace Young oldbrotherfirewater The musket, always a muzzleloader, took minutes to reload; an archer could aim and fire up to a dozen arrows in a minute. Muskets required continual cleaning and repair; bows were quickly made and easily maintained. Edmund Morgan alwayscleaningaimfire I'm actually quite good at being friends with my exes. I'm friends with almost everyone. In fact, everyone! So I let them burn to a certain degree, and then I put out the fire for a while. Ella Eyre burngoodfriendsfire Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. Ellen Datlow imaginationfirefearart I joined an improv comedy group. Ours was named 'Quick Fire!' with an exclamation point. It was when I auditioned for that team and got on it and felt like... I'll just say I felt like I was good at it. Ellie Kemper goodcomedyteamfire I don't even need to know - if you have something to prove to your old boss or your dad or your third grade teacher or yourself, it doesn't matter. You need that hustle and that fire, and I don't care where it comes from. Emily Weiss yourselfyoufireteacher At this camp I had the unique experience of showing all these seasoned Westerners that it was possible to make a fire by the friction of two sticks. This has long been a specialty of mine; I use a thong and a bow as the simplest way. Ernest Thompson Seton experienceuniquefirelong In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience. Estelle Parsons doinglikefirecharacter People set newspapers on fire; they use them for wrapping fish. The Internet does not have that property. What I don't think we've gotten is that you can make things last longer than in print. Ezra Klein youinternetfirepeople 'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us. Everett McGill namejourneyfireromantic For a Nabokov fan, paging through 'Fine Lines,' which includes a critical introduction and several essayistic evaluations of Nabokov's scientific oeuvre, can feel a bit like reading the second half of 'Pale Fire': one is confronted by a content-rich, almost dementedly tangential commentary on an increasingly inscrutable work. Elif Batuman feelreadingfirework Sometimes in the real world, there is fire between people. Florence Pugh firesometimespeopleworld I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship. Sabrina Carpenter youfiresongrelationship We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames. Nancy Gibbs fruitfirejusticesometimes I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers. Nancy Cartwright substituteteachersi-amfire Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it. Quentin Bryce fireattitudelongpeople Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. P. T. Barnum somemoneyfirelife I thought I would set the world on fire when I got out of college. I had done quite well in a field that was growing. Unfortunately, we got hit with a recession in 1981. R. A. Salvatore thoughtcollegefireworld Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side. Karen Abbott citygreatfirechildren Remember that input is as important as output. Take in something for inspiration, to relight the fire inside you, and ideas on how to fix whatever isn't working in your writing will usually follow. Camille Perri youfirerememberideas«205206207208209210211212213214215»
