Brush Fires Quotes

#1. It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Samuel Adams

#2. All of a sudden, I feel very old and very tired. Maybe when I get to California, the smog, brush fires, floods, and earthquakes will cheer me up.

Erma Bombeck

#3. If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

Joseph Wambaugh

#4. I like keeping my work so open that it can be interpreted on different levels. Art can't be compared with journalism; it can't discuss concrete issues.

Mona Hatoum

#5. Got it," I say as he hands me a pencil skirt, a crisp long-sleeved white shirt, and some low black heels. "This is what I'm wearing?" I'm a librarian. "Can I safely assume the accessories will include glasses on a chain and my hair in a bun? Should I shush people tonight?

J.A. Huss

#6. The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

Publilius Syrus

#7. I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the drummer in Wilco or as a composer who composes primarily for rhythmic reasons - it doesn't matter to me as long as they dig the music. None of that matters to me if the music is crap.

Glenn Kotche

#8. Time is a boomerang, not an arrow.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. Forgive those who are ignorant.
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F. Sionil Jose

#11. She had received ideas which disposed her to be courteous and kind to all, and to pity every one, as being less happy than herself.

Jane Austen

#12. Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

James Frecheville

#13. The technology itself is not transformative. It's the school, the pedagogy, that is transformative.

Tanya Byron

#14. We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

Alfred Kazin

#15. I don't think we really measured the enormity of the whole occasion. I'm very, very surprised. We never expected it. When I set out in May we didn't realise how big this was. Only now have we realised the importance of this. [on the 2005 Ashes win

Duncan Fletcher

#16. To achieve something, action is needed; but thoughtful and calculated action is better.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe