Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vincent Van Gogh

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

Vincent Van Gogh

One must never let the fire go out in one's soul, but keep it burning.

Virginia Woolf

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

William Blake

When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Samuel Richardson

Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

Joss Whedon

We have done the impossible. And that makes us mighty.

Joss Whedon

Time for some thrillin' heroics.

Joss Whedon

If I kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed.

Joss Whedon

Shiny, let's be bad guys!

Joss Whedon

Captain, I think you have a problem with your brain being missing.

Joss Whedon

When you’re telling a story, you’re trying to connect to people in a particular way … The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don’t think the show is off the air. I don’t think there’s a show; I think that’s what the world is like. … The story is our lives.

Joss Whedon

We'll never make Firefly again, because that was a thing that existed and is now gone. And Serenity isn't Firefly, and whatever comes next won't be, either. But I would love to tell more stories of this universe and to hang out with these people on and off for the rest of my career.

Joss Whedon

Okay, uh, I'm lost. I'm angry. And I'm armed.

Joss Whedon

Doctor, I'm taking your sister under my protection. If any thing happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you I will get very choked up. Honestly, there could be tears.

Joss Whedon

Take my love, take my land Take me where I cannot stand I don’t care, I’m still free You can’t take the sky from me Take me out to the black Tell them I ain’t comin’ back Burn the land and boil the sea You can’t take the sky from me There’s no place I can be Since I found Serenity But you can’t take the sky from me…

Joss Whedon

I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar!

Joss Whedon

Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction. We live in a space ship, dear.

Ramakrishna

As a piece of rope, when burnt, retains its form, but cannot serve to bind, so is the ego which is burnt by the fire of supreme Knowledge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,--life passed through the fire of thought.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

Lenny Kravitz

Eleutheria, the fire is burning. Eleutheria, the tables are turning.

Tertullian

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Terry Pratchett

I wouldn't trust you with a bucket of water if my knickers were on fire!

Terry Brooks

Let me tell you something you haven’t learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn’t matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events—they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn’t have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don’t even notice at first, and then one day it’s there. You wake up and you just don’t have the fire anymore.” He smiled...

Terry Brooks

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so.

Tennessee Williams

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

Sean Maher

But when I do get recognized, I get recognized usually for 'Firefly.

Scott Lynch

Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.

Sia Furler

I like bands for a long time, even when they're not trendy anymore. I still like Arcade Fire. I've always liked Stevie Wonder.

Sharlto Copley

There are a lot of people that have marginal powers, like a guy who levitates a little bit off the ground, or someone who can breathe a little bit of fire, or someone that can freeze a little bit of something, if it's really close to him, you say, "Well, what do you do with that? How is that useful?" There is so much of it around you and you're seeing it, it becomes the important thing in society.

Leslie Fiedler

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.