Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dolly Parton

I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.

Dick Francis

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

Alphonsus Liguori

When we have to reply to anyone who has insulted us, we should be careful to do it always with gentleness. A soft answer extinguishes the fire of wrath.

Ann Richards

I've been tested by fire, and the fire lost.

Alton Brown

The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.

Anne Bronte

He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of a pet and more of a friend, if I might choose; but I won't complain of that: I am only afraid his affection loses in depth where it gains in ardour. I sometimes liken it to a fire of dry twigs and branches compared with one of solid coal, very bright and hot; but if it should burn itself out and leave nothing but ashes behind.

Angelina Jolie

When I was little, like Maleficent, I was told that I was different. And I felt out of place -- too loud, too full of fire, never good at sitting still, never good at fitting in. And, then one day I realized something, something that I hope you all realize: Different is good.

Donna Murphy

I've had a lot of baptism by fire.

Du Mu

In general, fire is used to throw enemies into confusion so that you can attack them.

Amy Adams

It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.

Amy Carmichael

It is not the place where we are, or the work that we do or cannot do that matters, it is something else. It is the fire within that burns and shines, whatever be our circumstances.

Anne Sexton

I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.

Anne Sexton

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins....

Anne Sexton

The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket....

Andrew Tobias

The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

Ameen Rihani

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Ambrose Bierce

Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the last one of which we have an account having been seen in Carcassonne by the Abbe Belloc, who exorcised it with a bucket of holy water.

That was exciting. We played with fire. We played with passion.

That wasn't a friendly thing. He shot the puck down the ice at me so I fired it back.

That was not for his protection, but for the fire officials' protection because his skin literally had serious contaminants on it.

That's the saddest thing about the Old Fire. We're using government funds and putting houses right back on the San Andreas because it's legal to do so.

Brad Soderberg

That's two full games where we haven't stopped anybody. Somehow we outscored Charlotte. We didn't outscore Dayton. We're messing with fire if we think that's how we can play. We have to stop people.

That's triple A, air-to-air artillery, being fired at this A-10 ,

I was on fire. I was hotter than a pistol.

William Butler Yeats

I would mould a world of fire and dew.

Amy Schumer

I am a hot-blooded fire and I am fearless.

Amory Lovins

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

If we needed $30 or $40 to pay the fire company's bills, sometimes we'd pass a hat at a meeting

Bill Williams

If we make it through today, I suspect we'll see a lessening of fire danger.

He tried to start a fire in the bathroom. We think he killed her and then tried to start the place on fire.

We played them pretty close. They're a good team. We have to come out the way we did today and stay fired up.

We had more intensity in the second half. But we're going to have to come out with more fire.

We?re glad they?re there because they really help us. They throw fuel in the fire for us.