Fire quotes

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” Maya Angelou

“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.” George Carlin

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.” George Carlin

“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?” George Carlin

“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.” Rudyard Kipling

“Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.” Rush Limbaugh

“I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.” Steve Martin

“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.” Anais Nin

“Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.” Barack Obama

“Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.” Henry Miller

“I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.” Marilyn Manson

“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.” Dolly Parton

“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.” Dolly Parton

“What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.” Chuck Palahniuk

“Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.” Mitt Romney

“Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.” Frederick Douglass

“Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.” Francis Bacon

“When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.” David Bowie

“There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.” Vincent Van Gogh

“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” Albert Schweitzer

“I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.” Donald Trump

“Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'” Donald Trump

“Well, yes, I've fired a lot of people. Generally I like other people to fire, because it's always a lousy task. But I have fired many people.” Donald Trump

“Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.” Edmund Burke

“Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.” Richard Bach

“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.” Richard Nixon

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.” Plutarch