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Quotes About Fire

The stars set fire to my eyes.
~ Markus Zusak
Sebbene qualcosa dentro di lei le dicesse che era un delitto (dopo tutto, tre libri erano la sua proprietà più preziosa), era costretta a guardarli andare a fuoco. Non poteva farci nulla. Suppongo che gli uomini amino assistere a un po' di distruzione: castelli di sabbia, castelli di carte, si comincia così. La loro grande dote è la capacità di progredire.
~ Markus Zusak
The fire was nothing now but a funeral of smoke, dead and dying, simultaneously.
~ Markus Zusak
Burning words were torn from their sentences.
~ Markus Zusak
Another noteworthy point is that the first was stolen from snow and the second from fire.
~ Markus Zusak
The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. On the other side, beyond the blurry heat, it was possible to see the brownshirts and swastikas joining hands. You didn't see people. Only uniforms and signs. Birds above did laps. They circled,somehow attracted to the glow - until they came too close to the heat. Or was it the humans? Certainly, the heat was nothing.
~ Markus Zusak
A crackling sound prompted her to think that the fire had already begun. It hadn't the noise was kinetic humans, flowing, charging up.
~ Markus Zusak
From a Himmel Street window, he wrote, the star set fire to my eyes.
~ Markus Zusak
When you considered this world--people winched up and lowered down into the earth in steel cages and speed-fed through the tunnels, with doors cracking everywhere, and arctic winds mingling with dusty gaps of fire from the planet's core--it was hard to believe how delicate life was, how breakable things were.
~ Martin Amis
After many ponderous experiments the first crematorium was opened in December 1920 in Petrograd. It could manage barely 120 bodies a month, and, in February 1921, cremated itself when the wooden roof caught fire.
~ Martin Amis
Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is more adapted for summer than for winter.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
with their blue flickering flames.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
I left Holmes seated in front of the smouldering fire, and long into the watches of the night I heard the low melancholy wailings of his violin, and knew that he was still pondering over the strange problem which he had set himself to unravel.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
A woman living in a grand house may pride herself on all her lovely things; but the moment she hears the crackle of fire she decides very quickly which are the few she values the most.
~ Arthur Golden
dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
~ Arthur Golden
When I said these words, all the heat in my body seemed to rise to my face. I felt I might float up into the air, just like a piece of ash from a fire.
~ Arthur Golden
Zato snovi mogu biti tako opasni:oni tinjaju poput prigušene vatre,a ponekad se vatra rasplamsa i potpuno nas proguta.
~ Arthur Golden
Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y a veces nos consumen completamente.
~ Arthur Golden
This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
~ Arthur Golden
Sap?i var b?t b?stami, tie gruzd k? uguns un reiz?m piln?gi p?r?em m?s sav? var?.
~ Arthur Golden
I was living only half in Gion; the other half of me lived in my dreams of going home. This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.
~ Arthur Golden
Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y te consumen completamente
~ Arthur Golden
Granny, as I went on to learn, was more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirsty old man.
~ Arthur Golden