Fire Quotes - page 3

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. (Victor Hugo)
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. View quote
Franz Kafka
Fir: it contains a great deal of air and fire with very little moisture and the earthy, so that, as its natural properties are of the lighter class, it is not heavy. Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. But it contains so much heat that it generates and encourages decay, which spoils it; and it also kindles fire quickly because of the air in its body, which is so open that it takes in fire and so gives out a great flame. View quote
Vitruvius
There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling. View quote
Peter Zumthor
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire. View quote
Ingeborg Bachmann
I secretly understood the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is-its irresistible charm-a fire. View quote
John Updike
But when the country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir. View quote
Thomas Paine
Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity. View quote
George Eliot
Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements. (Harry Houdini)
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water. View quote
Fernand Léger
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.... View quote
Jack Kerouac
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. View quote
Robert Frost
The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be . . . View quote
Henry James
I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out. View quote
Dolly Parton
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. View quote
Morihei Ueshiba
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It takes two flints to make a fire. (Louisa May Alcott)
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire. View quote
Henry Miller
American institutionalists were not theoretical but anti-theoretical.... Without a theory they had nothing to pass on except a mass of descriptive material waiting for a theory, or a fire. View quote
Ronald Coase
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. View quote
Emil Cioran