Fire Starter Quotes

#1. I understand her immediately. She is an instigator, a fire starter, an accelerant of a human being, throwing herself into the middle of a crowd and lighting it up. She is fucking lighter fluid.

Marjorie Celona

#2. I really liked 'Starter For Ten' because I grew up watching 1980s teen films like 'St. Elmo's Fire' and 'The Breakfast Club' and I've always wanted to play the underdog lead hero in a 1980s-inspired film.

James McAvoy

#3. I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a cell phone case.

P. Anastasia

#4. [On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

Rebecca West

#5. The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

Dalai Lama

#6. Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation.

Jason Mitchell

#7. Henry, if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings.

Cassandra Clare

#8. You should always pay attention to your instincts.

Agatha Christie

#9. I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.

Lou Thesz

#10. What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We've raised a generation or two of young people who don't think to ask, 'What can the state do that is good?'

Tony Judt

#11. Passion is the spark for everything. By itself, passion is never enough. Just like talent is never enough. But it's your fire starter.
Without passion, you won't do something 100 percent. That's the bottom line.
And what's the point of doing something if you're not doing it 100 percent?

Apolo Ohno

#12. The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

Alain De Botton

#13. Well you've been brought here against your will, just like I have. If you ask me, we're all in the same boat. And it's leaking.

John Boyne

#14. Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

Byron Katie

#15. Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

Terence McKenna

#16. God, please let this not be our last dance...

P. Anastasia

#17. I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.

Knute Rockne

#18. Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.

Blair Underwood

#19. How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance
the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

Barbara Jordan