Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.
Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.
In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.
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.
It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.
This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!
You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
They're so cold, these scholars! May lightning strike their food so that their mouths learn how to eat fire!
There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.
Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.
Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue.
'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.
Maxim 37: There is no "overkill". There is only "open fire" and "time to reload". -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
Maxim 15: Only you can prevent friendly fire. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
