Famous Quotes & Sayings

We've gone through a great season. We've wrestled a lot of quality opponents this year and we've been in the fire before. We're tapering at the right time and our guys will be ready to go.

John Ashcroft

We think any time firearms are missing, it's a serious circumstance,

To get a score like that really was a shot in the arm. It got everyone fired up.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Jamie Oliver

But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.

Ricky Gervais

I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me." I always knew I had to be 100 percent in charge, even when I was a middle manager. I used to say to my boss, "Just give me enough rope and then fire me."

Bobby Scott

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Bobby Seale

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

Bob Dylan

Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.

Billy Connolly

Save the Trees? Trees are the main cause of Forest Fires!

Brigham Young

I wanted to thunder and roar out the Gospel to all nations. It burned in my bones like fire pent up... Nothing would satisfy me but to cry abroad in the world, what the Lord was doing in the latter days.

Antonio Machado

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

Edmund Spenser

Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

Bill Pascrell

In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

Bill Johnson

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

David Walker

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

Beatrice Webb

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

Bear Grylls

Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

Barney Ross

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Barry Commoner

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Barney Frank

I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 Senators there and they'll all die because they won't have the 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.

Bobby Flay

I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire.

Benjamin Franklin

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

Benjamin Franklin

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

Benjamin Franklin

The proof of gold is fire...

Barbara Walters

Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?

Arthur Golden

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 the 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?

Anton Chekhov

Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act.

Anton Chekhov

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

Demetri Martin

If you happen to catch on fire during the show, do not panic or wave your arms around or scream or we wil give something to panic and wave you arms around and scream about.