I’m just calm under fire. I’m not intimidating at all.
I’m probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
A husband is like a fire – he goes out when unattended.
Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.
To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions.
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
I rode fire trucks, slid down fire poles, wore a lot of red, and made a lot of appearances. I’ve always had a special place in my heart for fire fighters.
Running like a bunny with his tail on fire.
When I was 13, I started writing songs, and it fell into my lap all of a sudden. I wrote poems and journals, but that’s when it switched for me to songwriting. That’s when I wanted to do everything. It was like a fire all of a sudden. I started coming to Nashville and moved here when I was 15.
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire.
Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.
The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war.
Arcade Fire has such intimacy and epic-ness, at the same time, and that’s really inspiring.
A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.
The household I grew up in… was rather like an Ovaltine advert. There was a huge fire, a kettle on the fire, the oven with the bread being baked every day, and there was the radio; it was very magical to hear all these wonderful programmes.
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces.
Tito Santana was one of the hardest working guys in the business. When Tito used to make that comeback, the people went crazy because he had so much fire. He had so much damn energy. He could just go and go and go.
An order to fire on people that do not fire on you is a completely illegal order.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw ‘Faust’ there – I did – knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
You read these management books that say, ‘These are the hard things about running a company.’ But those aren’t really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.
I think you can ban guns if you can just pull the trigger and 60 bullets fire out.
I’m not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn’t live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved my child and my pets, I’d be happy.
I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips.
I walked into a demo session one time, and a guy said, ‘I’m thinking kind of like a Trace Adkins thing.’ And I looked him right in the eye and said, ‘Man, you’ve got the wrong guy. I’m gonna have to fire myself. You’ve got to hire somebody else.’
Climate change is not the fault of man. It’s Mother Nature’s way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.
He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Well-secured files don’t do you much good if you lose them in a fire or hard drive crash.
I’m sure people see me as quiet and someone who keeps things to himself a little bit. I might be quiet, but there’s a lot of fire inside me, and hopefully people see that sometimes.
You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.
After my grandfather’s plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.
I like to call it a ‘sacred fire’ when you have it inside you: the will to win every game.
You’ve got to be a little vicious. You’ve got to be narcissistic. You’ve got to be on fire about your career.
