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Fire Quotes



"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"


"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."


"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."


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


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


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


"It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us."


"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"


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


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


"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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