Top 100 On Fire Quotes
#1. I don't think I gave 'Wings' its due. I was young. I wanted to light the world on fire.
Tim Daly
#2. I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.
Tinie Tempah
#3. This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that's on fire.
Chuck Palahniuk
#4. His parties have room for all. Come on in. Nobody to look at you funny in here. Nobody to tell you not to have that drink, kiss that fella, smash that chair, light that chandelier on fire. Do it all. Do it all forever.
Catherynne M Valente
#5. Because when Eddie's in that fuckin zone, he could talk the devil into setting himself on fire.
Stephen King
#6. Kiss me. My lips are on fire.
You, my friend, are the object of my
secret desire.
Lisa Canfield
#7. Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.
Honor Tracy
#8. Those who love God with their minds, even if it gives them a headache, are those whose hearts stay on fire.
Darrell W. Johnson
#10. I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.
William Shakespeare
#11. How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?
Kamisese Mara
#12. I want the audience to recognize you when you're in the arena," says Cinna dreamily. "Katniss, the girl who was on fire.
Suzanne Collins
#13. Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.
Conan O'Brien
#14. In Pakistan anti-American protesters set a Kentucky Fried chicken restaurant on fire. The protesters mistakenly thought they were attacking high-ranking U.S. military official Colonel Sanders.
Jimmy Fallon
#15. I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings ... Boy With Pail ... Kitten On Fire.
Steven Wright
#16. I know it's not thematically in tune with my new job and all, but I find it effective. Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day," I say. "But set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. Tao of Pratchett. I live by it.
Jim Butcher
#17. i do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me i want to be full on my own i want to be so complete i could light a whole city and then i want to have you cause the two of us combined could set it on fire
Rupi Kaur
#18. I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.
Henry Rollins
#19. You two would get on like a house on fire. Don't douse the flames before you've struck a match.
Kelly Batten
#20. Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver.
Linus Torvalds
#21. Never mind if the cart's on fire, just keep loading the wagon - Uncle Rob
Maggi Myers
#22. Some People Like a House with A Fire Place, Others want a House they can set on Fire!
Paul Stanley
#23. The world is on fire; time is a bomb.
Ten thousand years are not enough
When so much remains to be done
Jeet Thayil
#24. Mental energy from within keeps me higher,
Than anything rolled and set on fire
Masta Ace
#25. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic.
Jon Stewart
#26. On Fire Island everyone was in a Speedo pulling a wagon of groceries across the bumpy boardwalk; you couldn't tell the houseboys from the bankers.
Edmund White
#27. Affection is a coal that must be cooled; Else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.
William Shakespeare
#28. The way my luck is at the moment," said Polly, "I probably will get a tiny bit of money back, and as I leave the bank after picking it up, a bolt of lightning will come out of the sky and set it on fire. Then a piano will fall on my head and knock me down a manhole.
Jenny Colgan
#29. Would you say the shapeshifter was in distress?"
"Hell yeah, he was in distress. His tail was on fire."
"He ran like his tail was on fire?"
"No, his tail was on fire. Like a big, furry candle on his ass.
Ilona Andrews
#30. He couldn't imagine, couldn't imagine the horror of scrubbing your own father's blood out of the floor. Better to set the whole house on fire, better to leave and never come back."
pg 338
Veronica Roth
#31. Unlike some older brothers, I never set him on fire, or cut off an arm or leg, or drowned him in the tub.
John Elder Robison
#32. Why didn't I just throw my money out of the window - and light it on fire?
Peter Cohan
#33. On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
Ben Aaronovitch
#34. The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.
Don DeLillo
#35. There we go," he said cheerfully, after he'd started up a fire. The two puppets, still huddled in his pockets, woke up when they felt the heat of the flames, and they scampered out of sight, squealing for dear life. Oliver laughed. "I'm not going to set you on fire. Come back here.
Zeinab Alayan
#36. You were drinking sangria and I was throwing oranges at you,
but it didn't matter.
I said my arms are very long and your head's on fire.
I said kiss me here and here and here
and you did.
Richard Siken
#37. But i'm old now, no longer fit for the fray, i'm even incapable of hating. I only feel sick at heart, irritable and exasperated. At night my head seems to be on fire with so many thoughts crowding in and i can't get any sleep ... Oh, if only i were young again!
Anton Chekhov
#38. There's no sweeter taste in the entire history of the world than your skin on fire. For me.
Rebecca Zanetti
#39. Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.
Clare Boylan
#40. And," Price adds, smiling, "if another round of Bellinis comes within a twenty-foot radius of our table we are going to set the maitre d' on fire. So you know, warn him.
Bret Easton Ellis
#41. The guy didn't have resting bitch face so much as resting I'm-going-to-kill-someone-and-light-their-house-on-fire face.
J.R. Ward
#42. A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.
Charles Bukowski
#43. I'm not sure what we're doing, to be perfectly honest
but nothing's on fire anymore. And I feel like maybe we've solved something. Even though this is probably just a new problem.
Rainbow Rowell
#44. Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
#45. Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire?
Diana Butler Bass
#46. When Vincent didn't understand something, he would figure it out. When Frank didn't understand something, he'd light it on fire.
Nicole Castle
#47. Those people who say it takes more muscles to frown than smile are in serious danger of having their pants catch on fire.
Tammy Blackwell
#48. What the hell was going on, why did I care, and why, oh why, did I not carry a pocket rocket in my purse? My girlie bits were still on fire, screaming for release after Mr. Sex God's orgasmic touch.
Lisa Sanchez
#49. Writing is so much more productive when it is set on fire, for then and only then can you feel the passion spewing forth from the writer's heart.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#50. I don't know who to believe, all I know is my feathers are on fire.
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.
Howard Stern
#52. We've got to get into shape," I said to Lula. "We should go to a gym or something." "I'd sooner set myself on fire.
Janet Evanovich
#53. Really? well, thank you. I was under the impression you wouldn't spit on me if I was on fire
Abbi Glines
#54. It's funny, honestly, by rights, with a lot of the stuff that's happened to me I should be running down the street with my hair on fire, but instead I want to shape things, and I want to shake things up. There's nothing wrong with being an agitator.
Rose McGowan
#56. My problem is, if any place I'm sleeping catches on fire, I've got a problem because it takes me 20 minutes to get everything moving in the morning.
Brian Dennehy
#57. The velocities and forces involved in anything at orbital altitudes were enough to kill a human with just the rounding error. At their speeds, the friction from air too thin to breathe would set them on fire.
James S.A. Corey
#58. On fire for the Lord," the Yoes began to talk to their friends about Jesus and even went so far as to name their dog "Repent" so they could stand in the city's parks and shout the canine's name and their message at the top of their lungs.
Larry Eskridge
#59. Someone asked me what three things I would save if my house was on fire. I said my cat, my salamander and one of the twins.
Ricky Gervais
#60. Why'd you come after me? he says. Back at Hopetown. That cellblock was on fire. You'd hafta be crazy to go in there. But you did. You risked yer life to save mine an you didn't even know me.
Moira Young
#61. No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination on fire, and, also, eventually, chars the imagination into a harder element: imagination cannot match love, cannot plunge so deep, or range so wide.
James Baldwin
#62. When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.
Elvis Presley
#64. What a weary way since that first disaster, what nerves torn from the heart of insentience, with the appertaining terror and the cerebellum on fire. It took him a long time to adapt himself to this excoriation.
Samuel Beckett
#65. My whole goal is just to keep myself motivated. If I'm motivated, if I'm on fire, it's going to catch with somebody else.
Rick Warren
#66. A man who could set you on fire just by looking at you was a terrifying thing to think about. Dress that same man up in something out of a parade and call him the Crimson Phoenix, and he was something much less threatening: a celebrity.
Kristen Brand
#68. If someone's lying, are their pants really on fire
Jerry Seinfeld
#69. Late one day James and I watch the sun fly across the sky like a basketball on fire until it falls down completely and lands in Benjamin Lake with a splash and shakes the ground and even wakes up Lester FallsApart who thought it was his father come back to slap his face again.
Sherman Alexie
#70. It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
Laurence Sterne
#71. I still think too much about the mothers And ask what is man born of woman. He curls himself up and protects his head While he is kicked by heavy boots; on fire and running, He burns with bright flame; a bulldozer sweeps him into a clay pit. Her child. Embracing a teddy bear. Conceived in ecstasy.
Czeslaw Milosz
#72. The inside of my head is out of control. It is on fire. It is snowing. It is a wild jungle. It is an Arctic wilderness. It is everything that has ever happened and everything that ever will happen, all at once.
Emily Barr
#73. You're all so busy tending to your own personal tree that you don't look around to see that the forest is on fire.
John Scalzi
#74. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
#76. I'm not paranoid, just prepared. There is a distinct difference and a higher survival rate for the latter." Rainey Bell, from "Molly: House on Fire
R.E. Bradshaw
#77. My mullet was an insecurity shield. My mullet was an ethnic hatchet. My mullet was an arrow on fire.
My mullet said to the literary world, Hello, you privileged prep-school assholes, I'm here to steal your thunder, lightning, and book sales.
Sherman Alexie
#78. There comes a time in every man's life when his thoughts lightly turn to setting his library on fire. To burn away the jungle to let him find the books that most matter to him.
Steven Hardesty
#79. Cable's on fire. Traditional broadcast TV's hearing a death knell. I sample as much television as possible. I like 'Homeland,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Veep.' Now reinvention's important.
Darren Star
#80. Beyond your dormitories, a world is on fire and you are kindled by underwear. Beyond your fraternities, history unfolds daily - warfare, bombings, wholesale slaughter, and you are oblivious of it all. Well, you won't be oblivious for long! You can be as stupid as you like, can
Philip Roth
#82. He closed his eyes and allowed himself to remember the taste of her and the feel of her and the smell of her. She was quite lovely. She was altogether ravishing. She would set any man's blood on fire. He shouldn't have kissed her.
Marguerite Kaye
#83. I still felt hot. Like I was sweltering. Like I was on fire. The kind of fire that couldn't be put out by water. The kind that couldn't be put out the way I was used to fighting other fires. She was the only one who could douse this kind of fire.
Kat Austen
#84. I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg.
Tre Cool
#85. With the same firmness with which I say that Iran represents a danger I tell Israel that you cannot and must not think of launching a pre-emptive attack because it would set the whole Middle East and the whole world on fire for who knows how many decades.
Gianfranco Fini
#86. The house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah ...
John Geddes
#87. I believe you!" Miss Ellen nodded. "Mark my words, Mr. Meredith, that man is going to fight somebody yet. He's ACHING to. He is going to set the world on fire." "If
L.M. Montgomery
#88. I find that kind of "look at me" narcissism terribly inconsiderate. If you need attention that badly, set yourself on fire.
Joan Rivers
#89. She smiled at him, that same look of shared understanding, then reached in again to touch his hand, pinching his palm between her thumb and index finger. 'You OK?'
'I could be on fire, but seeing you would make it all OK,' he replied, his voice as brittle as a three-pack-a-day smoker.
Sean Black
#90. Snub end of a dismal year,
deep in the dwarf orchard,
The sky with its undercoat of blackwash and point stars,
I stand in the dark and answer to
My life, this shirt I want to take off,
which is on fire ...
Charles Wright
#91. A falling star is actually on fire as it enters the atmosphere, so if I were to try and catch one, I'm pretty sure there would be some pain involved. Though, I would suppose some pain would be worth it to find something so rare.
Sadie Grubor
#92. Your property is in danger when your neighbour's house is on fire.
Horace
#93. Someone's boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous.
Emma Cline
#94. I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire," said Miss Tick. "There may be no survivors.
Terry Pratchett
#95. I woke up the Following morning with the Kings of Leon telling me that "my sex was on fire." I shut off my alarm and that's when all of the memories of the previous night came rushing back.
Kristen Middleton
#96. In the apocalyptic environment that is Los Angeles on fire, we should all be making a point to have a lot of sex, but no one seems particularly motivated. They need leaders, and sadly I am not up for the task.
Jennifer Harrison
#97. Oh, I don't mean you're handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they're beautiful. They're wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.
Charles Bukowski
#98. Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.
Ayn Rand
#99. Nicky, the van's on fire!'
'Fuck the van, Willy! We got ourselves a prodigy child!
Jonathan Dunne
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