719 Fire Quotes for You to Enjoy

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony. John Jakes

Day Dark Fire Before Wild Distant April Ringing Through Hazard Outside He Stepped Tower Stumbled Hour House Balcony Hallway Narrow George Woke Burned Upstairs Midnight Then Mansion Bells Last

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. John Keble

Mind Poet Fire Brother Contact

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire. John Legend

Best Training Fire Trial Play Ear

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind. John Lyly

Wind Fire Give Weigh Were Fancy Measure Reason

Johnny Blaze was my character at OVW. I had all these fancy fire catchphrases: 'Call the fire department,' 'Get your fire extinguishers out, ladies.' 'By the time you hear the thunder, it's going to be too late because the lightning will have already struck.' That was all my thing. John Morrison

Time Character You Too Late Will Fire Too Late Out Struck Johnny Had Blaze Thunder Lightning Call Because Hear Get Department Going Ladies Fancy Your Thing By The Time

I once read Updike after writing a first draft, and I wanted to put my own book on the fire. I've since learned to read utter crap while I'm writing: pulp is the thing. John Niven

Book Writing Fire First Own Once My Own Put Since Read Learned Wanted Crap After While Utter Thing Draft Pulp

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure. John Yoo

I want to be like Ford Madox Ford. I want to be talking to somebody across a fire, and I want him to join me and listen to me, and if he is fidgeting in his chair, I know I am not doing my job. I am a storyteller, and I know most people like a story. John le Carre

When it comes to celebrities and tabloids, to me that is a bummer. That's a little disappointing. And it is amazing how things really get made. I always used to think that where there is smoke there is fire, and now I see stories pop up out of nowhere with no basis in reality. Jon Favreau

Me Reality Amazing Made Fire Think Out See Tabloids Disappointing Smoke Always How Bummer Up Celebrities Get Where Stories Little Really Pop Used Now Nowhere Things Basis

Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they killed one of their own. Jon Krakauer

Natural Cover-Up Fire Own Neglect Embarrassing Properly Fact Most Because Cover Up Friendly Natural Inclination Incidents Inclination

At the structural level, when the primary is all that matters, the incentives change for politicians. And, when you can earn media coverage with bombast and vitriol, that creates another incentive for politicians to light things on fire. Jon Ossoff

You Change Light Fire Matters Politicians Earn Structural Primary Another Coverage Creates Incentive Incentives Media Media Coverage Level Things

This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show. Jon Secada

Love Wind Fire Live Earth Record Some Marvin Gaye Major Like Cover Covers Lot Maybe Influences Show

Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough. Jonathan Mostow

Myself Fire Enough Out Direct Had Feel Like Most Involvement Began Going Story Either Realized Things Belly Set

Let me tell you a story about when I was growing up in Spain. Many Sundays, we would invite 30, 40, 50 people to the countryside, and my father would make a big paella. He put me in charge of the fire and the 'stove' - the rocks that hold the pan. But he wouldn't let me cook. I got so unbelievably upset. Jose Andres

Me You People Stove Father Fire Big Tell Sundays Charge Would Unbelievably About He Put Invite Countryside Make Got Rocks Up Upset Hold Story Spain Cook Many Growing Growing Up Pan

Storytelling in general is a communal act. Throughout human history, people would gather around, whether by the fire or at a tavern, and tell stories. One person would chime in, then another, maybe someone would repeat a story they heard already but with a different spin. It's a collective process. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

History People Collective Fire Tell Would Spin Someone General Throughout Another Around Repeat Heard Person Human Maybe Tavern Different Stories Process Story Whether Storytelling Communal Then Human History Act Gather

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. Joseph Wambaugh

People Fire Component About Written Wondered

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage. Joshua Chamberlain

I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents. Judy Blume

Censorship Parents Fire Thinking Books Those Out Tell Share Support Come Wrote Reviews Sending Children Want Information Them Who Include Why Letters Defend

My inspiration comes from so many things, it is hard to give credit to one. I find music of all kinds to be a great inspiration. A melody or a lyric can fire my imagination. Exercise is another. Endorphins fuel my thoughts - I tend to work out scenes and dialogue when I am exercising. Reading is also a great inspiration. Julia London

Work Music Great Thoughts Fire Reading Imagination Lyric Melody Out Find Kinds Give Scenes Inspiration Tend Also Another Exercise Exercising Am Dialogue Fuel Work Out Hard Many Credit Things

When you've got a leader that wants to go out and practice at the ultimate, highest level, when something that you should do doesn't go right, there's going to be a little fire under that, and that's what you need from your leader. Julian Edelman

You Fire Leader Practice Out Something Highest Highest Level Got Go Ultimate Going Wants Little Should Your Right Level Need

Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side. Karen Abbott

Great Fire Before Side Took Immigrants City No-One Catherine West West Side Chicago Irish Five Children Notice Who Lived Two

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