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Fire Quotes

"Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff."

Gary Gygax, American Inventor

Fire, Gold, Magic

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

Max Muller, German Educator

Fire, Light, Reality, Reflection

"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."

Buddy Rich, American Musician

"The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Fire, Heaven, Invention

"I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again."

Chris LeDoux, American Musician

"I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore."

Luke Perry, American Actor

Fire, Job, Jobs, Results

"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."

Izabella Scorupco, Polish Actress

"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."

Franklin P. Jones, American Journalist

Fire, Old, Speech, World

"I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse?"

David Carradine, American Actor

Fire, Network, Old, Walking

"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

"Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water."

Buffalo Bill, American Celebrity

Fire, Snow, Water

"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."

James Longstreet, American Soldier

Fire, Open, Troops

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

Fire, Want, Weight

"Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands."

Kenelm Digby, English Celebrity

Fire, May, Water

"I fought fire with oil."

Dalton Trumbo, American Novelist

"Must all of them and their families be physically abolished? Of course not? They must be 'liquidated' or melted in the hot fire of exile and labor into the proletarian masses."

Walter Duranty, American Journalist

"You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow."

Amy Lowell, American Poet

"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."

J. B. Yeats, Irish Artist

Fire, Pain, Personality

"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."

Burt Lancaster, American Actor

"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."

Peter Dawson, Australian Musician

"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Fire, Man, May, Will

"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."

Robert Fulghum, American Author

"Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record."

Ronnie Montrose, American Musician

"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."

Dean Kamen, American Inventor

Fire, Inventions, Language

"I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion."

Roger Clemens, American Athlete

Fire, Passion, Want

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

Frederick Douglass, American Author

"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."

Tre Cool, American Musician

"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

Fire, Moments, Perfection

"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette."

Ed Markey, American Politician

Fire, Losing, Risk

"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

"I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out."

Dolly Parton, American Musician

Fire, First, Woman

"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."

Clive James, Australian Writer

Fire, Man, Moments, Tranquility

"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."

Hippocrates, Greek Scientist

"Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

Fire, Rules, Theory, Universe

"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

Leonard Rose, American Musician

"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say."

Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist

Fire, Opinion, Tongue, Words

"Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water."

Fernand Leger, French Artist

Fire, Man, Needs, Water

"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

Charles Simmons, American Author

"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

Imran Khan, Pakistani Athlete

"I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all."

Keenen Ivory Wayans, American Comedian

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

H. G. Wells, English Author

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

Plutarch, Greek Philosopher

"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."

Rachel Field, American Novelist

Fire, Opinion, Public, Publicopinion

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

Craig Shirley, American Author

"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."

David Bowie, English Musician

"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."

Robert Hall, English Clergyman

Fire, Name, Names, Right

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