Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elsa Maxwell

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores.

Hildegard Knef

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

Hillary Clinton

I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

Jack Kevorkian

When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.

J. B. Smoove

I've done everything. Selling door-to-door fire extinguishers... In bars, I used to repair those machines that have 10 different buttons on them to spray club soda and seltzer.

Caleb was on fire. He kept us in the game.

Caleb's done a great job all spring. His release has improved, his passing has improved. He knows the offense and he's fired up to get back out there and get going.

Can someone tell me where to send the thank-you note? The president fired up our base.

By the time they found out there was a fire, it had already grown in size.

Harrison Ford

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

Guy Verhofstadt

Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.

Ginger Rogers

I won't go to movies with permissiveness, four-letter words, or violence. Show me 'E.T.' and 'Chariots of Fire' instead. That's entertainment, not exploitation of the human body.

Harry Chapin

Remember when the music Came from wooden boxes strung with silver wire And as we sang the words, it would set our minds on fire, For we believed in things, and so we'd sing.

Gwendolyn Brooks

at a certain moment in social proceedings, I am on FIRE to leave: I have a leaving-FIT.

I'm not sure if people are here for the fire or maybe it's just the people who are here for the normal Friday night activities.

I packed up my belongings and got ready. At first, I didn't know which way the fire was going.

Mitch Mustain

I just wanted to kick back and get away a little bit. We'll fire that up as soon as we get back from San Antonio.

Robert Esche

I just wanted to fire them up and it worked for about 10 minutes.

Robert Wise

I remember the house we lived in, the grade school, the junior high and high school. I remember one time we had a fire in the high school so we couldn't go there. We had to go to the junior high school for a year.

Illegal immigration is the greatest threat to African-Americans since slavery. We're fired up. We can't take it anymore.

I know he doesn't do that on purpose, but it fires you up and it gets you back on focus.

Mary Lee

I just got through. I was lucky to get through. I heard a noise. It was just a big fire. I didn't come back. I was nervous. I didn't want to come back. I didn't want to see.

High winds are a real problem ... pushing the fire along.

Ron Gardenhire

He's on fire right now. He's a great hitter in a great zone.

Casey Blake

I don't know if I want to stoop to his level and fire back. I took it personally. There's no room for bashing other players.

Tim Duncan

I didn't know if there was going to be enough time. I turned to shoot and then saw him at last second and tried to fire it to him real quick. I probably should have shot the ball.

Dale Jarrett

I didn't realize they had a 24-hour period they could wait for these things to settle down. I'm fired up about this. I don't understand it.

It was really something ... Especially that waterfall. The fireworks are always great.

It was a wake-up call. I was too tentative and didn't fire out like I normally do. I tried to turn it on at the end, but it was too late.

It was a vicious fire. There's really not too much left.

Bruce Babbitt

It's a very tough situation, ... We've got two, three more weeks, maybe a month of fire season, and the weather prognosis is not very good.