Quotes of: Fire Keyword

I keep reading that I'm cold. But I'm not, I'm shy. And I play a lot of women of fire and sexuality like an animal - so I'm cold on one side and fiery on the other.

Emmanuelle Beart

Don't you remember what your grandfather used to say? That thing about pots and people?" "That pots were like people," Alex replied flatly, thinking back to his grandfather carrying a tray of wet freshly thrown clay pots across the studio in ancient ...

Fleeced

I was just as black as I had been the day that I was born. Therefore, when I faced a congregation, it began to take all the strength I had not to stammer, not to curse, not to tell them to throw away their Bibles and get off their knees and go home a...

The Fire Next Time

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all th...

The Fire Next Time

One would never defeat one's circumstances by working and saving one's pennies; one would never, by working, acquire that many pennies, and, besides, the social treatment accorded even the most successful Negroes proved that one needed, in order to b...

The Fire Next Time

War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A hand grenade is hurled into a group of men. One of the men throws himself on top of it, making his body a living shield. In the burst of wild fi...

The Hungering Dark

Who're you going with, then?" said Ron. "Angelina," said Fred promptly, without a trace of embarrassment. "What?" said Ron, taken aback. "You've already asked her?" "Good point," said Fred. He turned his head and called across the common room, "Oi! A...

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

What were you going to make for Christmas dinner?” one of my older children asked in a very reasonable tone. I cleared my throat, but couldn’t speak. There was no real explanation for my behavior. I’d been so intent on getting through this firs...

Refined By Fire: A Journey of Grief and Grace

Why not other elements besides fire, air, earth and water? There are four of them, just four, those foster parents of beings! What a pity! Why aren't there forty elements instead, or four hundred, or four thousand? How paltry everything is, how miser...

Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

I see the glow before I see her. The orange light is so strong it’s hard to believe the house isn’t on fire, but when feet appear at the top of the staircase, I can finally see that the light isn’t coming from the house. It’s coming from her....

Sing Sweet Nightingale

Jack Valentine: Do you know why I do what I do? I mean, there are more prestigeous assignments. Keeping track of nuclear arsenels - you'd think that be more critical to world security. But it's not. No, nine out of ten war victims today are killed wi...

Lord of War

Ripley: Lieutenant, what do those pulse rifles fire? Gorman: 10 millimeter explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing round, why? Ripley: Well, look where your team is. They're right under the primary heat exchangers. Gorman: So? Ripley: S...

Aliens

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?... I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire taht meant 'Flee.' The sound of ...

Amy Tan

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

Celebration Of Cats

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Catching Fire

Remember how before, I was talking about Dungeons and Dragons? Vividly, Jace said. It was a dark time.

City of Heavenly Fire

I have not stopped loving her, nor my parabatai; love does not stop when someone dies.

City of Heavenly Fire

I don't carol, said Simon. I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.

City of Heavenly Fire

Take it, and cut your brother's throat with it, and take back the honor of your blood.

City of Heavenly Fire

We find in our children our own selves again, who might be made better than we are.

City of Heavenly Fire

Family isn't blood. It's the people who love you. The people who have your back.

City of Heavenly Fire