#fire

A leather bag filled with food and a flask of hot tea. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-everdeen #the-hunger-games #food

In the Middle Ages, cathendrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#fire #imagination #middle-ages #obviousness #writing

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#days #eat #fire #frozen #go

The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#enemy #fire #gave #mccarthy #moment

You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#among #cannot #cities #fire #friends

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#germans #kant #quotations #shells #them

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#because #being #british #british columbia #ceremonies

The Jews have opened fire, and they are unready to begin a war. ↗

— Moshe Dayan

#fire #jews #opened #war

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#campfire #country #country music #farm #i

If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me. ↗

— Jack Dee

#badly #become #comedians #failed #i