Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

I would mould a world of fire and dew.

Most of the N.C. militia men ran after they fired their first shot of the first line.

Dick Johnson

Matt made a comment, correcting me: 'No Dick,' he said, 'you're going from the fire to the frying pan.'

Daniel Briere

It fired up our will when we heard things like the more the series went on, the tougher it would go for us. Those were just motivation points for us.

I think she was fired up and made about (injuring) her knee (in the first quarter).

I think people should realize that these guys did a good job in moving quickly to make sure that they were on this fire last night.

Chauncey Billups

You all know that sometimes we get bored. When something like that happens, it just fuels our fire a little bit, and good luck to the other team when that happens.

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.

It doesn't make sense to go back and forth (to the hotel). I'll just fire up my computer.

Jerome Holtzman

It all has to with his being a competitor. I'm sure a lot of guys could have gone on (as long) but they didn't have the fire in their belly.

I think I was the only one that looked upset. It didn't look like we had the fire to make a run.

We jump right back into the fire on Friday night.

You can get real fired up for the Saints. I mean, they knocked us out of the playoffs. We feel for what they're going through, but that shouldn't be an issue.

You can do more with a gun than just fire it.

We provide fire protection, rescue, search and many different things.

H. P. Lovecraft

If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

Jay Leno

Mitt Romney is coming under fire because even though he is a multimillionaire, he only paid 15 percent in taxes. That's not a tax, that's barely a tip.

James Dickey

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

Janet Fitch

purification in fire. public cremation

You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

Cassandra Clare

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

Christopher Golden

Xander Harris: Hair. Red. Red is good. Fire engines are red. Porsche's are red.

Chris Rock

You can't be happy that fire cooks your food and be mad it burns your fingertips.

Gerard Way

The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.

Harry Houdini

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

Harry Houdini

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

Horace

The work you are treating is one full of dangerous hazard, and you are treading over fires lurking beneath treacherous ashes.

Herman Melville

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

Henry David Thoreau

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning the other side of my half-clad body to the fire, I sought slumber again.

Henry David Thoreau

Of what use were it, pray, to get a little wood to burn, to warm your body this cold weather, if there were not a divine fire kindled at the same time to warm your spirit?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

Jeremy Collier

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.