Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Spinelli

Disagreement is not necessarily a reason to head for Splitsville. In fact, a relationship without disagreement is probably too brittle to last. Some of the best human bonds are forged in the fire of disagreement.

Jeffrey Sachs

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

Gary Snyder

Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.

Gaston Bachelard

At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.

Gaston Bachelard

So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.

Jim Carrey

Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.

Jeannette Walls

I lived in a world that at any moment could erupt into fire. It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes.

Jeaniene Frost

Playing with fire Kitten?

Jean-Paul Sartre

So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people.

Georges Bernanos

If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

Jim Harrison

Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that we live within. (from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)

Jim Harrison

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

Jerry Smith

Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.

Eoin Colfer

I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn." Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer. Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.

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.

Ethel Waters

Only those who are being burned know what fire is like.

Groucho Marx

Mrs. Teasdale calls for rescue and Firefly delivers the famous line to his cohorts as they rescue her: "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."

Gregory Maguire

The world was floods above and fire below

Hope Davis

Storytelling is what lights my fire.

Ignatius of Loyola

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

Ian Anderson

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

Hugh Shelton

They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know.

Hosea Ballou

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Horace

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

Horace

Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.

Gillian Jacobs

You know it's a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.

Shinzo Abe

Generally speaking, we don't think that land-to-sea or very short-range missiles, even if fired from North Korea, have a particular immediate impact on our national security.