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“Hey, Mr. Nakata. Gramps. Fire! Flood! Earthquake! Revolution! Godzilla's on the loose! Get!”
Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore
Source: Kafka on the Shore
“Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.”
Candace Bushnell book Sex and the City
Source: Sex and the City
“When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: After the Quake
Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries
Variant: In life, there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
Source: The Carrie Diaries
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1850s, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (1852)
Context: At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. O! had I the ability, and could reach the nation's ear, I would, to-day, pour out a fiery stream of biting ridicule, blasting reproach, withering sarcasm, and stern rebuke. For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake. The feeling of the nation must be quickened; the conscience of the nation must be roused; the propriety of the nation must be startled; the hypocrisy of the nation must be exposed; and its crimes against God and man must be proclaimed and denounced.
“I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.”
Cornel West (1953) African-American philosopher and political/civil rights activist
Source: Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir
“Sometimes you don't need lightning to start a fire. Sometimes, it builds on its own.”
Sarah Mlynowski (1977) Novelist
Source: Ten Things We Did
“When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again.”
Jodi Picoult (1966) Author
Source: Between the Lines
“I want more of this feeling - fire and wings.”
Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight
Source: Good Morning, Midnight
“Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.”
John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian
William T. Sherman (1820–1891) American General, businessman, educator, and author.
Letter to James E. Yeatman of St. Louis, Vice-President of the Western Sanitary Commission (21 May 1865). As quoted on p. 358, and footnoted on p. 562, in Sherman: A Soldier's Passion For Order https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/080938762X (2007), John F. Marszalek, Southern Illinois University Press, Chapter 15 ('Fame Tarnished')<br>Variant text: I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers […] it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated […] that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation. […] I declare before God, as a man and a soldier, I will not strike a foe who stands unarmed and submissive before me, but would rather say—‘Go, and sin no more.’<br>As quoted in Sherman: Merchant of Terror, Advocate of Peace https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1455611891 (1992), Charles Edmund Vetter, Pelican Publishing, p. 289<br>See the Discussion Page for more extensive sourcing information. <br class="br">1860s, 1865, Letter to James E. Yeatman (May 1865) <br class="br">Context: I confess without shame that I am tired & sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. Even success, the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies […] It is only those who have not heard a shot, nor heard the shrills & groans of the wounded & lacerated (friend or foe) that cry aloud for more blood & more vengeance, more desolation & so help me God as a man & soldier I will not strike a foe who stands unarmed & submissive before me but will say ‘Go sin no more.
“I'm playing with fire, with something I don't understand.”
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: The Awakening
“God hides the fires of hell within paradise.”
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
“Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice…”
Elizabeth Peters (1927–2013) American author and egyptologist
Madeleine L'Engle book A Wrinkle in Time
The Expanding Universe (1963)
Source: A Wrinkle in Time
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
Source: The Wisdom of Life and Counsels and Maxims
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 4 (Gabriel Oak, proposing to Bathsheba Everdene)
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Variant: Henry," said Charlotte, who seemed to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit down and eat your supper. And say hello to our guest.
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.”
Rick Riordan book The Serpent's Shadow
Source: The Serpent's Shadow
Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls
Variant: I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire."
His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. "Okay, so maybe our problems aren't like other couples.
Source: City of Lost Souls
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”
Isaac Asimov book Foundation
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Foundation (1951), Part III, The Mayors, section 9
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Dark Visions
Jessica Bird book Lover Eternal
Source: Lover Eternal
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: Heart-Shaped Box
Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire
Jace Herondale and Simon Lewis, pg. 454
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
“I am ashes where once I was fire…”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Source: Selected Poems
“We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.”
Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
Emma Thompson (1959) British actress and writer
Source: The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Doin' It Again, Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics (1990)
Context: Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins. It's as simple as that. The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?
“Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.”
Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha
Source: Memoirs of a Geisha
“Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.”
Delmore Schwartz (1913–1966) American poet
"Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day" ( full text online http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/calmly-we-walk-through-this-april-s-day/); this poem has also been printed under the title "For Rhoda" <br class="br">Selected Poems: Summer Knowledge (1959) <br class="br">Context: Each minute bursts in the burning room,<br>The great globe reels in the solar fire,<br>Spinning the trivial and unique away.<br>(How all things flash! How all things flare!)<br>What am I now that I was then?<br>May memory restore again and again<br>The smallest color of the smallest day:<br>Time is the school in which we learn,<br>Time is the fire in which we burn.
“It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom”
Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) French writer
“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
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