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Quotes About Fire

But during the summer of 1934, a series of events had occurred which endangered not only the Morro Castle, but also her master. On July 29, a meal had been served that made Wilmott ill enough to suspect poisoning; on August 4 an attempted strike had threatened to wreck the liner's tight schedule; on August 27 a fire had started in a hold containing high explosives.
~ Gordon Thomas
Ein Wort Ein Wort, ein Satz -: aus Chiffren steigen erkanntes Leben, jäher Sinn, die Sonne steht, die Sphären schweigen, und alles ballt sich zu ihm hin. Ein Wort - ein Glanz, ein Flug, ein Feuer, ein Flammenwurf, ein Sternenstrich - und wieder Dunkel, ungeheuer, im leeren Raum um Welt und Ich.
~ Gottfried Benn
Ein Hurenhaus geriet um Mitternacht in Brand. Schnell sprang, zum Löschen oder Retten, Ein Dutzend Mönche von den Betten. Wo waren die? Sie waren – – bei der Hand. Ein Hurenhaus geriet in Brand.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Passion is no ordinary word
~ Graham Parker
Ok. Listen. I not know where all you morons come from but holy water no hurt Bigfoot. Garlic and Crucifix also no. Fire, Pitchfork, Silver Bullet OK. Cryptonite do nothing. It not even real. Please stop sending letters asking "What you vulnerability? What Bigfoot?" Like I tell. What next me bank account number? Why not you invest time in moving out of parent basement? Maybe have sex or something. Yes I be talking to you Steve. Youuu! Stalking is a crime Steve.
~ Graham Roumieu
You seem to like helping, taking care of people," he said. "That is admirable." "You enjoy being nurtured?" "Well, that isn't all you promise. When you touch me, I feel a fire at my center. You want me to grow and find my true story, my purpose. You seem to want to be there when I see new things. You want to share and enjoy my discoveries.
~ Greg Bear
a flaming angel
~ Greg Cox
All Talons must burn!
~ Greg Cox
Detective Segel, the evidence shows that you experienced a penile erection when the defendant opened fire. Would you describe that as an appropriate response?
~ Greg Egan
THERE WERE four of them in the fire-team, and because shouting out things like, "FN-twenty-one eighty-seven, watch your back!" was a mouthful, especially when the blaster fire was searing the air around them, they'd defaulted to shorter versions.
~ Greg Rucka
As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.
~ Greg Walden
The more a man gazes on what he loves, the more he sets fire to his heart and bastes it with bacon fat.
~ Guillaume de Lorris
Nothing stays the same it all gets crushed. It all gets broken. It all passes with time. Only the moment you're in has any meaning." "There are things that stand the test of time, there are things that last. Like love." "Love theres nothing more fragile or ephereal. Love is like fire on a rainy day: you've got to spend all your time protecting it, feeding it, tending it because if you don't it goes out." "There are some loves that last." "No, what lasts is the pain that comes after love.
~ Guillaume Musso
Chaque vie connaît un jour ce type de séisme : ce moment où les sentiments deviennent des allumettes craquées au milieu d'une forêt desséchée. Le prélude à un incendie capable de ravager toutes nos fondations et de nous entraîner vers l'abîme. Ou la renaissance.
~ Guillaume Musso
Tu ne vas pas me faire croire que tu sais allumer un feu de cheminée? s'amusa Billie. — Bien sûr que si ! répondis-je vexé. — Très bien, vas-y, homme, je te regarde avec mes yeux admiratifs de femme soumise.
~ Guillaume Musso
La llama de un fósforo dura solo unos segundos, pero es capaz de incendiar un bosque.»
~ Guillermo Arriaga
Iluminada por el rojizo resplandor de la hoguera y a través del confuso velo que la embriaguez había puesto delante de su vista, parecíale que la marmórea imagen se transformaba a veces en una mujer real; parecíale que entreabría los labios como murmurando una oración;
~ Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Ouch, my butthole hurts, but I really need to have a look at that firestation.
~ Guy Delisle
I Drink. I Burn. I Dream. And Sometimes, I tell Stories !
~ Helene Cixous
Denn sie, die uns das himmlische Feuer leihen, die Götter, schenken heiliges Leid uns auch.
~ Hölderlin
this tungsten spark we call our soul
~ James Hollis
There is an art in lighting a fire. We have the liberal arts and we have the useful arts. This is one of the useful arts.
~ James Joyce
I am the fire upon the altar. I am the sacrificial butter.
~ James Joyce
Lean out of the window, Goldenhair, I hear you singing A merry air. My book was closed, I read no more, Watching the fire dance On the floor. I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom. Singing and singing A merry air, Lean out of the window, Goldenhair.
~ James Joyce