Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
As quoted in "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/24/content_284041.htm
Ba Jin (1904–2005) Chinese novelist
As quoted in "Literary witness to century of turmoil" in China Daily (24 November 2003) http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-11/24/content_284041.htm
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
"On Donne's Poetry" (c. 1818)
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
St. 4. <br class="br"> Modern Love http://www.ev90481.dial.pipex.com/Meredith/modern_love.htm (1862)
Francis Xavier (1506–1552) Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic saint and missionary
Neill, S. (2004). A history of Christianity in India: The beginning to AD 1707. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Temple Grandin (1947) USA-american doctor of animal science, author, and autism activist
Grandin, Temple. Thinking in Pictures : My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition).Westminster, MD, USA: Knopf Publishing Group, 2006.
Christopher Monckton (1952) British public speaker and hereditary peer
7 steps that'll land Obama in jail http://www.wnd.com/2013/12/7-steps-thatll-land-obama-in-jail/ WorldNetDaily, December 31, 2013.
Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer
"Mother Earth Mother Board," cover story in Wired, 4.12 (1996)
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision
Sergei Biriuzov (1904–1964) Soviet military commander
Quoted in "The Winter War: The Soviet Attack on Finland" - Page 146 - by Eloise Engle, Eloise Paananen, Lauri Paananen - History - 1992
“I'd sooner sleep by an open fire and wake up fried.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, Make Yourself (1999)
“But what most showed the vanity of life
Was to behold the nations all on fire.”
James Thomson (poet) The Castle of Indolence
Canto I, Stanza 55.
The Castle of Indolence (1748)
Richard Dawkins book A Devil's Chaplain
quoting F. W. Sanderson, "The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle"
A Devil's Chaplain (2003)
“Brave rifles! Veterans! You have been baptized in fire and blood and have come out steel!”
Winfield Scott (1786–1866) Union United States Army general
Address to US forces after the of Battle of Chapultepec in the Mexican-American War (September 1847) as quoted in The Life and Military and Civic Services of Lieut-Gen. Winfield Scott (1861) by Orville James Victor, p. 106.
Robert Charles Wilson book Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America
Source: Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America (2009), pp. 110-111
Wilson Harris (1921–2018) Guyanese writer
Interview with Wilson Harris (2010) on being Knighted at Queen Elizabeth II Birthday Honours
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)
Hank Green (1980) American vlogger
Syria in Five Minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exrqMPJ1Bts <br class="br">Youtube
Günter Brus (1938) Austrian artist
Source: Nervous Stillness on the Horizon (2006), P. 166 (1966/1972)
Stan Rogers (1949–1983) Folk singer
Barrett's Privateers (1976)
“Time is the fire in which we burn.”
Gene Roddenberry (1921–1991) American television screenwriter and producer
Misattributed <br class="br">Source: The Delmore Schwartz poem "Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/calmly-we-walk-through-this-april-s-day/ from Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems (1959). The line was quoted in Star Trek: Generations; Schwartz was given credit in the film.
Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist
The Other World (1657)
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) American artist
statement for catalogue of 1914 exhibition at 291, reprinted in On art, p. 62; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 49
1908 - 1920
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"Rosalita"
Song lyrics, The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (1973)
Alan Sugar (1947) British business magnate, media personality, and political advisor
The Apprentice, Series 10
Gangadevi Indian princess and Sanskrit poetess
Goel, S. R. (2001). The story of Islamic imperialism in India.
Bartolomé de las Casas (1474–1566) Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer
History of the Indies (1561)
Charles Boarman (1795–1879) US Navy Rear Admiral
William N. Jeffers, Acting Secretary of the Navy 1879
Historical Records and Studies, Vol. VI (1911)
William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom
Jeventus Mundi: The Gods and Men of the Heroic Age (1870) p. 289. https://archive.org/stream/juventusmundigod00glad_1#page/288/mode/2up <br class="br">1870s
Henry Gantt (1861–1919) American engineer
Source: Work, Wages, and Profits: Their Influence on the Cost of Living. 1910, p. 5.
Jayapala (964–1001) Ruler of the Kabal Shabi
Cited by Utbi, quoted from Lal, K. S. (1992). The legacy of Muslim rule in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 3
Yves Klein (1928–1962) French artist
In 1961; p. 67
Klein's quote on making paintings with a flame-thrower
1960 -1964, "Yves Klein, 1928 – 1962, Selected Writings"
“But that disease when soberly defined
Is the false fire of an o'erheated mind.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
Source: Conversation (1782), Line 667; of fanaticism.
James, son of Zebedee major religious figure in Christian tradition and one of the Twelve Apostles
James 3:5-6 http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/book.php?book=James&chapter=3&verse=25&t=1, KJV
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) Dutch 17th century painter and etcher
Rembrandt's etching recipe http://remdoc.huygens.knaw.nl/#/document/remdoc/e12885, in 'The Whole Art of Drawing', Alexander Browne, London 1660, p. 106 <br class="br">Strauss &amp; Van der Meulen 1979, p. 476, RD 1660/29: 'This recipe, specifically attributed to Rembrandt, for preparing the ground of a plate for etching is given by Alexander Brown in 'The Whole of Drawing' <br class="br">1640 - 1670
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, September, First presidential debate (September 26, 2016)
Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
§ 60-62
Source: Pali Canon, Sutta Pitaka, Khuddaka Nikaya (Minor Collection), (Suttas falling down)
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Comments on a court case in The Indian Opinion (25 March 1905)
1900s
Lydia Maria Child (1802–1880) American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
1840s, Letters from New York (1843) <br class="br">Source: Letters from New York http://www.bartleby.com/66/65/12265.html, vol. 1, letter 1
Cat Stevens (1948) British singer-songwriter
Hard Headed Woman
Song lyrics, Tea for the Tillerman (1970)
John Dolan (1955) American journalist
Gary Brecher at exile.ru/authors, 2002
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Source: The Temple of Fame (1711), Lines 449-458.
Derren Brown (1971) British illusionist
TV Series and Specials (Includes DVDs), Derren Brown Plays Russian Roulette Live (2003)
Nicholas Murray Butler (1862–1947) American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
Scholarship and service : the policies of a national university in a modern democracy https://archive.org/details/scholarshipservi00butluoft (1921)
“I am a rocket
On fire.
Look at me go, with my tail on fire…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Sensual World (1989)
“Courage to strengthen, fire to blind, music to daze, iron to bind.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Snakes and Foxes Game
(15 September 1992)
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Divinity
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
On modern teaching of law: Speech at University of Chicago Law School http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2003/05/09/justice_scalia_speak.php, (6 May 2003). <br class="br">2000s
Kris Kobach (1966) American politician
Does Trump’s confrontational style help him as president? https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trumps-confrontational-style-help-president (February 16, 2017)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Source: The Venetian Bracelet (1829), Lines of Life
James Tod (1782–1835) 1782-1835, English officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan by James Tod
Rāmabhadrācārya (1950) Hindu religious leader
mahāghoraśokāgninātapyamānaṃ
patantaṃ nirāsārasaṃsārasindhau ।
anāthaṃ jaḍaṃ mohapāśena baddhaṃ
prabho pāhi māṃ sevakakleśaharttaḥ ॥
[Dinkar, Dr. Vagish, श्रीभार्गवराघवीयम् मीमांसा, Investigation into Śrībhārgavarāghavīyam, Deshbharti Prakashan, Delhi, India, 2008, 9788190827669, Hindi]
“Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?”
Ursula K. Le Guin book Lavinia
Source: Lavinia (2008), p. 66
Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker
Alex Jones RANT: "We're Coming for Ya Globalist" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2okLFw9TIEI, July 2011.
Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) President of the Confederate States of America
"Louisiana and the Rule of Terror" http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=EL18741010.2.9#, The Elevator (10 October 1874), Volume 10, Number 26.
Elinor Glyn (1864–1943) British novelist and scriptwriter
A covering note sent with a manuscript submission, which was supposedly returned with the answer, "Put this with your other irons." The same story had much earlier been told about Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Piozzi in Kate Sanborn Home Pictures of English Poets (New York: Appleton, 1869) p. 215.
Misattributed
Mahmud of Ghazni (971–1030) Sultan of Ghazni
Tarikh-i-Firishta, translated by John Briggs under the title History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India, first published in 1829, New Delhi Reprint 1981, Vol. I, pp. 27-37.
Quotes from Muslim medieval histories
Joseph Jacobs book English Fairy Tales
English Fairy Tales (1890), Preface to English Fairy Tales, The Story of the Three Little Pigs
Herman Melville book Billy Budd, Sailor
This statement is usually attributed entirely to Melville, but the way he presents it in the story indicates that he might be quoting a lesser known author.
Source: Billy Budd, the Sailor (1891), Ch. 21
“Love sets fire to your schedule,
And then calls an end to time.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
Star Matter
Song lyrics
Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism
Basava’s saying in his “The Lord of the Meeting Rivers: Devotional Poems of Basavanna” quoted in The Lord of the Meeting Rivers Quotes, 23 November 2013, Goodreads.com http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3772282-the-lord-of-the-meeting-rivers-devotional-poems-of-basavanna,
Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893–1937) Marshal of the Soviet Union
Quoted in "A century's journey: how the great powers shape the world" - Page 175 - by Robert A. Pastor, Stanley Hoffmann - Political Science - 1999
“Genius is the fire that lights itself. -Commenting on Buddy Rich.”
Neil Peart (1952–2020) Canadian-American drummer , lyricist, and author
Other
Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309–1388) Tughluq sultan
Delhi. Tarikh-i-Firuz Shahi, Elliot and Dowson, History of India as told by its own Historians, 8 Volumes, Allahabad Reprint, 1964. Elliot and Dowson. Vol. III, p. 365 ff https://archive.org/stream/cu31924073036737#page/n379/mode/2up Quoted in Shourie, Arun (2014). Eminent historians: Their technology, their line, their fraud. Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : HarperCollins Publishers.
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2000s, 2002, State of the Union address (January 2002)
“And elm-trees, massed like ostrich feather plumes,
Are streaked and shot with fire.”
Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington (1889–1956) Duchess of Wellington
Poem: Lost Lane
“I'm gonna baptize you in fire so you can sin no more.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Bye and Bye
“Thou fill'st from the wingèd chalice of the soul
Thy lamp, O Memory, fire-wingèd to its goal.”
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882) English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
Mnemosyne, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
David Duke (1950) American White nationalist, white supremacist, writer, right-wing politician, and a former Republican Louisiana …
Podcast on The Israeli Invasion and Bombing of Lebanon (10 August 2006) http://www.davidduke.com/mp3/dukeradio060810.mp3
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
Lis Wiehl (1961) American legal scholar
Source: Heart of Ice A Triple Threat Novel with April Henry (Thomas Nelson), p. 81