Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Riley

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

Bill Maher

Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story.

Beth Moore

only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred

Benny Hinn

The Lord also tells me to tell you in the mid 90's, about '94-'95, no later than that, God will destroy the homosexual community of America. [audience applauds] But He will not destroy it - with what many minds have thought Him to be, He will destroy it with fire. And many will turn and be saved, and many will rebel and be destroyed.

Bob Seger

With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.

We got up to him and noticed that his pants were still on fire so we put those out.

What made this fire suspicious is when firefighters pulled the woman from the blaze, she already had a head injury.

Candace Parker

We're going to come into the regional with fire.

We're fine, but we did not play well (at UCLA and USC). It's early; we know what we didn't do. It's not rocket science. We'll be pretty fired up.

Mitch Miller

We're focusing on responding to small fires once they've been reported to make sure these small fires don't turn into large fires and further tax our resources.

We're fired up. There's no doubt. We know how hard it was to get there last year, and to be able to back it up is just a tremendous accomplishment for the group of guys on this team.

We're fired up but the next game's only going to be harder.

Scott McKenzie

We're fired up about it. It's really picking up now.

William Shakespeare

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire.

William Shakespeare

Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.

William Shakespeare

These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.

With the new ones, not only can't you feel air, you can't even hear fire trucks when they go by.

Ron Gardenhire

We knocked the fire out of the ball.

Charlotte Rampling

You become more and more charged with your life and with a life that you're observing. When I was younger, I was actually looking forward to getting older, to have more insight, more understanding. I'm much more tolerant with others and with myself. I'm not in rebellion all the time, I'm not angry so much. But all those feelings are really useful [when you're young] because they fire us, as long as they don't get out of control.

Aisha Tyler

When I get old and slow down I want to look behind me and see all the fire and the wreckage and no stone left unturned.

Aimee Bender

But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.

Aidan Quinn

Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

Bill Pascrell

In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other.

Bill Johnson

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

Jane Austen

You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;— if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.

Jamie Oliver

But I read Catching Fire. I loved disappearing into a story.

Alan Lightman

There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

You cannot play with fire.

Al Capone

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

Blaise Pascal

Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

Edward Said

The Orient and Islam have a kind of extrareal, phenomenologically reduced status that puts them out of reach of everyone except the Western expert. From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing th orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.

Ben Nelson

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation.

My Calamity is my providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy.