Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chaka Khan

Walking through this life really is walking through fire.

Chaka Khan

As you get older, though, you realize there are fire extinguishers. You do have an ability to control the flames.

Charles Simic

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

David Walker

I may be doomed to the stake and the fire, or to the scaffold tree, but it is not in me to falter if I can promote the work of emancipation.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey

Beatrice Webb

we have not been impressed with any attribute of the Senate other than its appearance and manners. We have heard the best speakers: they all fire off speeches which deal with the entire subject in general terms and which do not attempt to debate, to answer opponents' arguments or offer new points for discussion. And the speeches are constantly degenerating into empty rhetoric; they abound in quotations from well-known authors or from their own former speeches.

Bear Grylls

Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you're going to die. They're all super important.

Barney Ross

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

Barry Commoner

Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.

Barney Frank

I have this fear that one day there's going to be a fire in the Senate and there are only going to be 57 Senators there and they'll all die because they won't have the 60 votes to allow themselves to leave the building.

Way back when, there were many stores on Main Street. I think a fire took several of the original town's buildings.

The positive side was the person knew where the fire extinguisher was and how to use it. That was the good thing.

We are seeing better recognition of (fire safety) problems.

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.

When you've got 12 fire departments, you've got a lot of buttons.

William Shakespeare

Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire, Begin it with weak straws.

William Shakespeare

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

Mark Cuban

When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.

William Shakespeare

Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.

William Shakespeare

The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

William Shakespeare

It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it.

William Shakespeare

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

Nicholas Brendon

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

We?re going to throw him into the fire because he has a great arm.

LeBron James

We're going to South Beach. It's on TNT. It's 8 o'clock. We'll be fired up. There's no reason we shouldn't play with intensity.

We're going to gear up and make our lineup as strong as possible. It's always been a fun thing. It's more fun if you win, obviously. We know we're going to have some strong competition. It's always been a fun thing for us. We're going to get fired up for it and go as hard as we can.

Rahul Dravid

What he does when he gets fired at the top of the order is very destructive and that is something he had done successfully in the past.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

With this situation here, as long as we had a suspect that had firearms that we knew was shooting at law enforcement and shooting at the helicopter we knew it wasn't safe to leave the freeway open.

We're riding them hard, but I think they're competitors and fighters, and they'll strive to do better, ... I'm not going to fire them and open up a new can of tackles. Because we haven't got a new can of tackles.

We're looking for intensity and guys to be fired up, but we can't be stupid about it either. All season long, we've made mistakes, and other teams have capitalized.

Bertolt Brecht

To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.

Benjamin Netanyahu

If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.