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Fire Quotes

"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."

"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

Craig Shirley, American Author

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"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."

"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."

Robert Hall, English Clergyman

Fire, Name, Names, Right

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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

Dinah Shore, American Actress

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"Running like a bunny with his tail on fire."

"Running like a bunny with his tail on fire."

Red Barber, American Celebrity

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"Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff."

"Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff."

Gary Gygax, American Inventor

Fire, Gold, Magic

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"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."

"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."

Izabella Scorupco, Polish Actress

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"Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water."

"Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water."

Buffalo Bill, American Celebrity

Fire, Snow, Water

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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."

"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."

Clive James, Australian Writer

Fire, Man, Moments, Tranquility

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"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

Leonard Rose, American Musician

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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

Imran Khan, Pakistani Athlete

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"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."

George Eliot, British Author

Fire, Jealousy, Needs, Passion

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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