Fire Quotes

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

I think these ladies, that group of 130 women, are going to make a difference in what goes on down there, because they're going to hold the locals' feet to the fire.

Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

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.

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.