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I get all fired up about aging in America. -- Willard Scott
There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments. -- Bobby Scott
The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. -- Sean Connery
You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code. -- Ben Bernanke
CEOs are worried they're going to get fired any minute. They're worried about their portfolios. -- Dan Jenkins
What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it. -- Joseph Wambaugh
I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames. -- Andy Goldsworthy
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it. -- Jamie Oliver
I don't believe anyone should ignore all the fires around you and stand pat and not worry about getting singed. -- Rick Santelli
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. -- Ivan Turgenev
You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career. -- Howard Stern
About guns, about hunting, it's safe to say I know nothing. The last gun I fired was a musket at Boy Scout camp. -- Rosecrans Baldwin
My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes. -- Penelope Cruz
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared. -- Otto Weininger
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. -- Denis Waitley
I'm trying to unify us internally so that we can - instead of firing on each other - fire on the Democrats and communicate a message and start talking about issues. -- Jason Chaffetz
I love using gas grills because they are easier to heat and it's much easier to control the flames with a gas grill than with a charcoal fire. Grilling is not just about lighting a fire. -- Bobby Flay
In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors. -- John Glover
About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires. -- Bill Dedman
In the 9/11 Commission Report, one of the things they point out is that firefighters saved just about everybody below the fire. I don't think they realize how proud the fire department is of that. Because, conceivably, that's all they could have done. They could not have gotten above that fire. -- Rudy Giuliani
You have to be vigilant about keeping your own fire alive. -- Tift Merritt
I am writing with my burnt hand about the nature of fire. -- Ingeborg Bachmann
Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire. -- William Butler Yeats
The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Harness the fire hidden in The Eucharist to bring about a true brotherhood and unity. -- Jaime Sin
The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire! -- Hermann Goring
I think about more than I forget, but I don't go around fire expecting not to sweat. -- Lil Wayne
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire. -- Ezra Pound
Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros. -- Ronald Rolheiser
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him. -- Samuel Butler
When you've tried all the salves in the world and they don't work, you start thinking about fire -- Stephen R. Donaldson
I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Clearly, Russia has lied to the world about what's going on in Ukraine. They have clearly violated the cease-fire agreements. -- Leon Panetta
Life is about discovering your passion and creating a fire to burn inside of you. Let your passion drive you! -- Chris Burkmenn
You flambe one car and now you think every song with fire is about you, Logan saysGet over yourself, Catalano. -- Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire. -- William Jennings Bryan
Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes. -- Patton Oswalt
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature. -- Francis Ford Coppola
The Bible talks about everlasting fire and eternal darkness when it describes hell... We do know that hell is real and forever. -- Pat Robertson
Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire. -- Bruce Sterling
I donâ??t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings -- Alejandra Pizarnik
A man who discovers his pants are on fire tends to have very little time to worry about somebody else's box of matches -- Jeff Lindsay
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. -- T.H. White
The fly lands on the swatter.The movie runs backwardsand catches fire in the projector.This species apes us wellby talking only about itself -- Billy Collins
The whole youth-idolatry oh-god-not-another-birthday thing has to be the most sure-fire way to be unhappy about the way things are progressing in your life. -- Nat Friedman
I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin. -- Marguerite Duras
We had all been feeling this, about the Buffy/Riley relationship. It never had the fire that Buffy/Angel did. It wasn't really meant to. -- Jane Espenson
There's happens to be a volcano in the vicinity and there's some talk about a volcano as well, so that's the title Salt and Fire -- Werner Herzog
What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth. -- Suzanne Collins
Mom was all about hellfire and brimstone. Her Old Testament God was a colossal, ancient brute, a maelstrom of blood and fire, of appetite and wrath. -- Laird Barron
All I can say about my mind is that, like a fire carefully laid by a good housemaid, it is one that any match will light ... -- Margot Asquith
Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted. -- Benjamin Franklin
We continue, however, to write about important people, prize-winning people, blacks of grandeur, women of great fire, fame or wit. We do not write about ordinary people. -- Jonathan Kozol
Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the razor-sharp steel. -- Christopher Paolini
But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater. -- Stanley Elkin
All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about. -- Aurora Rose Reynolds
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared -- Otto Weininger
When your opponent sets up a straw man, set it on fire and kick the cinders around the stage. Don't worry about losing the Strawperson- American community vote. -- James Lileks
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him. -- John Flavel
Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance. -- Larry Moss
I didn't want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling. -- Bear Grylls
Desire consumes you, it takes you over. You forget yourself completely. All you can think about is the other, the one you desire, your self is just a fire. -- Marilyn French
In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't. -- Kate Winslet
Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away. -- Denis Waitley
I understand the reasons behind his keeping a distance from a girl he cares about. Because the truth is, sometimes getting close to the fire does actually burn you. -- Simone Elkeles
There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay. -- Polly Horvath
The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire. -- Michael Chabon

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