#fire

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#beginning #begins #bells #century #divisions

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#demented #fire #genius #i #maybe

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters. ↗

— Burke Marshall

#counters #eat #fire #lunch #out

Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. ↗

— Jose Marti

#fire #hatred #only #others #out

When I was a young prosecutor, I got called to testify against my boss. I could have backed down, but I didn't. I stood up to him. And he fired me for it. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#backed #boss #called #could #down

Under pressure, people admit to murder, setting fire to the village church or robbing a bank, but never to being bores. ↗

— Elsa Maxwell

#bank #being #bores #church #fire

'St. Elmo's Fire' is one of my favorite films. I like the storytelling of those teenage American films. You don't get that now. Teenage American movies are all about sick jokes, puking a lot, arse jokes. ↗

— James McAvoy

#american #american films #american movies #arse #favorite

It can be hard for the cute girl. I was blond, cute, broke. I was beat up. I was thrown inside lockers. I was burned with cigarettes. My hair was lit on fire. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#blond #broke #burned #cigarettes #cute

Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf. ↗

— John McCarthy

#committing #fired #generates #genocide #getting

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budget #drought #ever #faced #farmers