We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Tennessee Williams
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For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.
Roger Bacon
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Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.
James Taylor
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
Mae West
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One cannot negotiate under fire.
Ariel Sharon
FireCannotNegotiate
I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
Ted Nugent
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The president of the United States can't even fire his chef. I'm not kidding.
Rob Lowe
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There was nothing there but black water and American fire power.
James Stockdale
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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
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He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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I put a lot of fire in my punches.
Rau'Shee Warren
FirePunchesLotPut
My mom was a single mother. She had six siblings in a big Irish family, all descended from shanty Irish folks who arrived after the Famine. They settled along the Cuyahoga River. It's the river that caught on fire. We're real good at picking real estate.
Rory O'Malley
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It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.
James Fenimore Cooper
FireMenViewLibertyImportant
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
Jackson Browne
FriendSadFireSongHouseDown
Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.
Aubrey de Grey
FireEnvironmentDesireWheelFix
The '80s, '90s, and early 2000s genes of competitive fire are dead and gone.
Paul Pierce
FireEarlyDeadCompetitiveGone
Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record.
Ronnie Montrose
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Storytelling is what lights my fire.
Hope Davis
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The first time I ever got paid to play was 1/18/99, Fire Hall in Bordentown, New Jersey. Played first on the bill - we got paid $20!
Jack Antonoff
TimeFirePlayNewFirst TimeFirst
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston Churchill
FireMeFlyWorldAdviceChannels
It's not easy to keep good sleep habits as an entrepreneur, especially at the early stages when there's always a fire to put out.
Neil Blumenthal
GoodFireSleepEasyEarlyOut
You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.
Rupert Friend
FireYouHotRealGunsLike
Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
Hermann von Helmholtz
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When our ancestors crouched about the camp fire at night, they told each other tales of gods and heroes, monsters and marvels, to hold back the terrors of the night. Such tales comforted and entertained, diverted and educated those who listened, and helped shape their sense of the world and their place in it.
Kate Forsyth
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