Fire Quotes

Everyone wants a little bit of something beautiful.

~ Kristin Cashore

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

~ Jim Butcher

The last time I was at a supernatural shindig, I got poisoned and then everything there tried to kill me. So I burned the whole place to the ground.

~ Jim Butcher

Fire should never be tempered in a female because that's what fuels her passion, causing it to ignite. He lifted my chin with his hand and stroked his thumb gently across my lips. All a male can hope for is to be consumed by it until there is nothing left of him.

~ Dannika Dark

Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.

~ Kristin Cashore

Not all people who inspire devotion are monsters.

~ Kristin Cashore

Are you determined to leave me in this world to live without my heart?’ Archer asked. ‘Because that’s what you very nearly did.

~ Kristin Cashore

If I lived through the next day or so, I needed to start keeping track of where these jokers liked to get their bloodthirsty freak on. It might give me an edge someday. Or at least a list of places that could use a nice burning down. I hadn't burned down a building in ages.

~ Jim Butcher

What man can hate or love well when he is drugged?

~ Kristin Cashore

The Zodiac had rearranged itself into a precise grid of bright points with luminous tails. It was as though the whole planet had been caught in some great closing net, the knots of its mesh aglow with St. Elmo's fire. It was beautiful. It was terrifying.

~ Peter Watts

Chained inside the carriage is a sinful woman. When we set the carriage afire, her flesh will be roasted, her bones will be charred: she will die an agonizing death. Never again will you have such a perfect model for the screen. Do not fail to watch as her snow-white flesh erupts in flames. See and remember her long black hair dancing in a whirl of sparks!

~ Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire in all directions.

~ Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

There's a kinship among men who have sat by a dying fire and measured the worth of their life by it.

~ William Golding

[Fire] is lightfooted and shamanic, dancing between the visible and invisible, undoing matter one collapsed molecule at a time, wreaking utter destruction with a touch softer than breath. Its poor cousins, wind and water, are one-dimensional rubes by comparison. Wind is all push, push, push. Water is suffocating, but passively so. And even when water gets it together to be a torrent or a tsunami, it is but wet wind. Fire is at once elemental and otherworldly. Fire dances on the grave of all it destroys. Fire is serious voodoo.

~ Michael Perry

Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?Perhaps they mix too well.

~ Jim Pascoe

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE UNHAPPY...SO LAUGH INSANELY, KISS SOFTLY, AND MAKE LOVE PASSIONATELY.....

~ Muffin

For the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.

~ Emily Brontë

But I could control these flames. It was an irresistible urge, one that I didn’t want to ignore. - Aurora

~ Candace Knoebel

... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

~ John Geddes

Oh, this time I was doing the gossiping. You should really dismiss me for disloyalty, not to mention the disrespect I'm showing right now by talking to you like this.

~ Jayne Bauling

Your horse is named Small.Yes.Mine is named Big.-Fire and Brigan

~ Kristin Cashore

When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.

~ Jodi Picoult

A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.

~ James Patterson

People want incongruous, impossible things.

~ Kristin Cashore

Fire is always ready to burn the hand it warms.

~ Rachel Caine

Not everything set on fire will rise.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

But the constant motion of the flames soon lulled him into a passive state where unrelated fragments of thoughts, sounds, images, and emotions drifted through him like snowflakes falling from a calm winter's sky.

~ Christopher Paolini

And he didn't get tired or sleepy, for the beauty burned in him like fire.

~ John Steinbeck

...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields.

~ Nora Roberts

Where there is a smoke, there is an ecologist.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

~ Sam Walton

I was at this casino minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said, 'You're gonna have to move, you're blocking a fire exit.' As though if there was a fire, I wasn't gonna run. If you're flammible and have legs, you are never blocking a fire exit.

~ Mitch Hedberg

If you fire people, you fire customers.

~ Ferdinand Piech

Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.

~ Quentin Bryce

Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.

~ Kelly Rowland

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'

~ Adam Carolla

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

The U.S. army confirmed that it gave a lucrative fire fighting contract in Iraq to the firm once run by the Vice President Dick Cheney without any competitive bidding. When asked if this could be conceived as Cheney's friends profiting from the war, the spokesman said 'Yes.'

~ Conan O'brien

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

~ Ferdinand Foch

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

~ William Shakespeare