On Fire Quotes
What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.
If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.
It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
Little redcape," he snarled, "when next you bare steel on Shagga son of Dolf, I will chop off your manhood and roast it in the fire." "What, no goats?" Tyrion said, taking a bite of his cheese.
When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.
I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses.
Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.
It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.
Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.
Our birth is nothing but our death begun; As tapers waste, that instant they take fire.
What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living.
Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.
To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.
If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.
She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.
These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume
You don't have to be brilliant at everything. You just have to have the courage to put yourself in the line of fire.
When angels visit earth, the messengers Of God's decree, they come as lightning, wind: Before the throne, they all are living fire.
To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall.
Fighting is 90% mental. There are people who run from the fire and there are people that turn around and run to the fire.
Where my heart lies is in the real-life, but at the same time part of it lies in this creative realm where I need to go in and put out that fire, scratch that itch, in order to be all rounded.
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven.
In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.
Surely where there's smoke there's fire? No, where there's so much smoke there's smoke.
Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.