“Fire isn’t good or bad. It just burns.”

“All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.”

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist

“So the goal isn’t to get good ideas; the goal is to get bad ideas. Because once you get enough bad ideas, then some good ones have to show up.”

Timothy Ferriss book Tools of Titans

“The fires of history burn hot and long, but memories of fires do not burn long enough.”

Jack Cady (1932–2004) American writer

“4702. The Passions are like Fire and Water; good Servants, but bad Masters.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“They used to have clauses and contracts where you can't get bad publicity or you'd get fired. But now bad publicity is good publicity. I just keep working and don't think about it much.”

Liza Minnelli (1946) American actress and singer

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”

Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

“GG Allin: There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.”

GG Allin (1956–1993) American singer-songwriter

“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist