Source: A Gift From Earth (1968), Ch. 7 : The Bleeding Heart
Context: There were organ banks all over the world, inadequately supplied by people kind enough to will their bodies to medical science.
How useful is the body of a man who dies of old age? How fast can you reach a car accident? And in 2043, Arkansas, which had never rescinded the death penalty, made the organ banks the official state method of execution.
The idea had spread like wildfire.... like a moral plague, as one critic of the time had put it.
Source: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Attributed to Darwin in another version of the Lady Hope fabrication.
Misattributed
“The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.”
Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
“Alas! alas! how plague-spot like will sin
Spread over the wrung heart it enters in!”
Title poem, section VIII.
The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
On the song "The Hounds of Love"
The Kate Bush Story (2014)
Context: I'm convinced that, as great as that record sounds, if you had anyone else sing it, you know, anyone else try to kind of weave and make it do that thing where it burns like wildfire and it comes alive, no one else could do it. It's incredible the way she kind of brings this cold arctic atmosphere, It's just like fire, you know? It's like all aaarh coming out of her mouth. … and now I'm listening to the song in my head. "Do you know what I really need? Do you know what I really need? I need lalalala yea yo yea yo your love."
“Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.”
Elizabeth Kastor (May 6, 1987) "The Jokers Take Heart - Pundits Ponder The Implications", The Washington Post, p. B1.
Drugs and Governments
Focus Fourteen
