Fire Quotes - Page 32

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.

A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.

There are five elements: earth, air, fire, water and garlic.

People who come up with "It may not work" or "What are we going to do if it fails?" do not have the credentials to be businessmen. If there is only a 1 percent chance of success, a true businessperson sees that 1 percent as the spark to light a fire.

When I die I have visions of fags singing 'Over the Rainbow' and the flag at Fire Island being flown at half mast.

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

We are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

Don't fall victim to what I call the ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome. You must be willing to fire.

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

Be moderate in eating and drinking. Mindful of the passing of time, engage yourself in zazen as though saving your head from fire.

Husbands are like fires - they go out when they're left unattended.

Don't let the urgent take the place of the important in your life... When you and I were putting out the fires of the urgent, the important was again left in a holding pattern.

Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.

We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

You cannot use someone else's fire. You can only use your own. And in order to do that, you must first be willing to believe that you have it.

I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about - the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of a box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire, it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

O love, O fire! once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul through My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.

You cannot play with fire.

I'm sure that Nero didn't set fire to Rome. It was the Christian-Bolsheviks who did that, just as the Commune set fire to Paris in 1871 and the Communists set fire to the Reichstag in 1932.

On the night of the 1st of September we observed for the first time signs of the natives being in the neighbourhood. Fires were seen on the low land near Cape Frederick Henry, and at daylight we saw the natives with our glasses.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful: something to be admired from a distance, not up close.