#fire

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#critic #fire #generous #poet #reason

Rural American families who depend on firewood to heat their homes will be hit just as hard as those who use oil and natural gas. ↗

— Richard Pombo

#american families #depend #families #firewood #gas

We were reminded first-hand of the work that still needs to be done in Iraq on the security front when insurgents fired five rounds into the base while we were still meeting with the nurses. ↗

— Jon Porter

#done #fired #first-hand #five #front

Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#day #fire #his #life #man

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. ↗

— Dennis Quaid

#could #cut #even #fired #got

Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life. ↗

— Aidan Quinn

#everyday #everyday life #fires #focus #front

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ↗

— Roger de Rabutin

#extinguishes #fire #great #love #small

Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Everything betrays us: voice, silence, eyes; half-covered fires burn all the brighter. ↗

— Jean Racine

#brighter #burn #everything #eyes #fire

If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy. ↗

— Gabrielle Reece

#couple #day #energy #feed #fired