#fire

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#artist #choices #doctor #firemen #i

The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#excess #fire #like #only #passions

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life? ↗

— Michelle Branch

#being #everyone #fired #get #getting

In the time of battle the hammocs, together with their bedding, are all firmly corded, and fixed in the nettings on the quarter-deck, or whereever the men are too much exposed to the view or fire of the enemy. ↗

— William Falconer

#bedding #enemy #exposed #fire #firmly

I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad. ↗

— Dakota Fanning

#cry #did #finished #fire #get

I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad. ↗

— Jackson Browne

#burned #dancer #died #down #fire

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#away #breath #caught #country #democratic

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#because #blush #bodily #brow #dead

Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop. ↗

— James Buchan

#even #financial #financial crises #fireworks #go

If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#been #big #canary #care #cholera