Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Every life can be learned from, as either a flame of hope or a cautionary flare.

Richelle Mead

I’m a succubus.” He shook his head. “No, you aren’t.” “Yes, I am.” “You aren’t.” I was a bit surprised to be having this conversation. “I am too.” “No. Succubi are flame-eyed and bat-winged. Everyone knows that. They don’t wear jeans and sweaters.

Richard Baxter

If it will be an intolerable thing to suffer the heat of fire for a year or a day, or an hour, what will it be to suffer ten thousand times more for ever? What if thou wert to suffer Lawrence 's death, to be roasted upon a gridiron; or to be scraped or pricked to death as other martyrs were; or if thou wert to feed upon toads for a year together? If thou couldst not endure such things as these, how wilt thou endure the eternal flames ?

Rebecca West

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Roy Yamaguchi

The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet.

Roald Dahl

I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

Sara Teasdale

Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

Walter Scott

A few drops sprinkled on the torch of love make the flame blaze the brighter.

Neal Shusterman

Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.

Ryan Howard

I think it gets guys fired up. If it doesn't fire you up, you've got issues.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it gave us a little fire in our butts. We were a little flat, and I thought after that, we kind of picked it up a little bit.

Charles Dean

He was a disciplinarian, ... Any time you got out of line, any time you fired back or had an attitude, you ran a lot of laps. I think I ran more laps than anyone.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

Casey Hampton

He likes to pick a fight. But in so doing he gets us fired up, too. He says things a lot of guys are thinking, but just don't say.

Ray Durham

He jumped up quicker than I thought he would and hauled butt back into the fire. He ran right back into the hottest part.

Steve Eckert

He's a slow starter and it's been that way most of the season -- he gets better as the match goes on. I don't know what fired him up, but he got a second wind and it was over.

Marissa Young

To get a score like that really was a shot in the arm. It got everyone fired up.

Bill Dreikosen

He's been a terrific player for us. He's always around the ball, and you have to be playing with some fire to get 18 rebounds.

Roddy Doyle

To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true.

Robert Mayer

The blood corpuscles take up the atmospheric oxygen in the lungs, and the vital chemical process accordingly depends essentially on the combination of oxygen absorbed by blood corpuscles with the combustible constituents of the blood to form carbonic acid and water.

Ziggy Marley

The sun is always shining. We have oxygen, trees, birds. There's so much good things on Earth, still. We haven't destroyed everything.

Jacque Fresco

You don't see the plug connected to the environment, so it looks like we're free, wandering around. Take the oxygen away, we all die immediately. Take plant life away, we die. And without the sun, all the plants die. So we are connected.

Henry Rollins

I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.

Laura Hillenbrand

Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.

George MacDonald

There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of the living God, rushing from under the great white throne of the glacier. The very thought of it makes one gasp with an elemental joy no metaphysician can analyse.

Elizabeth Gilbert

When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

Joel Salatin

The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.