Quotes by Fire Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. Joseph Gordon-Levitt differentfirepeople Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. Joseph Heller firemenfall I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contribute to our present misery, than one spoonful of water thrown upon a rat already drowned would contribute to his death; and that the present plentiful harvest, although it should be followed by a dozen ensuing, would no more restore us, than it would the rat aforesaid to put him near the fire, which might indeed warm his fur-coat, but never bring him back to life. Jonathan Swift firewaterwar Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold. Joseph Heller firemenfall You see layers as you look down. you see clouds towering up. You see their shadows on the sunlit plains, and you see a ship's wake in the Indian Ocean and brush fires in Africa and a lightning storm walking its way across Australia. You see the reds and the pinks of the Australian desert, and it's just like a stereoscopic view of all nature, except you're a hundred ninety miles up. Joseph P. Allen oceanfireclouds I thought we were out of money!? You can't simultaneously fire teachers AND tomahawk missiles. Jon Stewart missilesfireteacher The quest for fire occurred not because anyone knew what the practical uses for fire would be, but because it was fascinating. Joseph Campbell usefirewould-be We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in color and fire. Joseph Priestley geniuscolorfire What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. Joseph Wambaugh componentsfirepeople If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that. Joseph Wambaugh firehomeyears Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment. Jorge Luis Borges punishmentislamfire Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body? Josephine Baker fireheartjoy This is the sixty-nine," I told him, presenting the magazine in front of him. I put my fingers -- two of them -- on the action, so that he would not overlook it. "Why is it dubbed sixty-nine?" he asked, because he is a person hot on fire with curiosity. "It was invented in 1969. My friend Gregory knows a friend of the nephew of the inventor." "What did people do before 1969?" "Merely blowjobs and masticating box, but never in chorus. Jonathan Safran Foer firetwopeople Noah came before the flood. I have come before the fire. Joseph Smith, Jr. fireflood For those people who are going to tune in strictly for the pyrotechnics, we have better and bigger explosions. That's a prerequisite of any sequel. But in terms of this, what we're really monitoring is watching the gas industry light our institutions, light our regulatory agencies, light our democracy on fire. Josh Fox agencylightfire Religion is fire which example keeps alive, and which goes out if not communicated. Joseph Joubert examplefirereligion God multiplies intelligence, which communicates itself, like fire, ad infinitum. Light a thousand torches at one touch, the flame remains always the same. Joseph Joubert flameslightfire He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah, that was the life. Josh Lanyon sunshinefirebook I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped. Jonathan Safran Foer firemeanyears My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. Joshua Chamberlain firewingsmen«93949596979899100101102103»
