Quotes About Fire In The Belly

#1. George Rochberg once said that 'to be a composer, you need to have fire in the belly, fire in the brain, but most importantly, an iron stomach.' I feel this is for the most part true, and hope I might convey something of it to younger composers.

Michael Hersch

#2. You've got to believe in yourself, you've got to have a very clear vision, and you've got have the fire in the belly and go out and not be shy with working because it takes a lot of work.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#3. The Romney candidacy is better than it was four years ago, but it's not clear that it's good. Mitt needs to get good real fast: A real speech, real plan, real responses, and real fire in the belly.

Mark Steyn

#4. The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless.

Morrissey

#5. Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

Jeffrey Kluger

#6. I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals.

Steve Largent

#7. What good is it to have a belly if there's no fire in it? Wake up, drink your passion, light a match and get to work.

Simon Sinek

#8. Going over to Lesvos in Greece and meeting some of these poor refugees who have just made the treacherous sea crossing opened my eyes in a way I can't even being to describe. It's put a fire in my belly to really try to do something, the little I can do.

Douglas Booth

#9. I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Ty Cobb

#10. We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

Raphael Zernoff

#11. Seamus shuddered in horror, before he pulled himself together. Determined, he reached between my thighs and shoved hard. Pain, like the fire of a thousand suns, burned through my belly. I tried to squirm away from his hands, using mine to push him away.

A.B. Shepherd

#12. It's about ... my only strategy I've ever had in my career is to do as many different types of roles as possible, as many different types of genres. It keeps the fire in my belly.

Dennis Quaid

#13. Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being.

Stella McCartney

#14. Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.

Herbert Hoover

#15. I didn't have any money. I had a sense of terrible loss. But what I also had was a fire in my belly. I wasn't going to go back to waiting tables. I felt I had to be better at fronting a band.

Emmylou Harris

#16. Finally, Gunner spoke, his voice so fluid and moving, it could have come from the river itself. I once hear a poem about angling. It say when you send out your line, it is like you cast out your troubles to let the current carry them away. I keep casting.

Clare Vanderpool

#17. Being burned out is a lot better than having no fire in the fist place.

Scott Ginsberg

#18. The full impact of silver
liquid fire, hot and flowing hit me hard in that place in your belly that doesn't exist for food, but for something else entirely. It exists solely to possess the feeling that it barely held in check right then. I don't know what it was. I don't think it has a name.

S.L. Naeole

#19. A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

Sam Keen

#20. Fire in your belly comes from pride and passion in wearing the red shirt. We don't need to motivate players because each of them is responsible for the performance of the team as a whole. The status of Liverpool's players keeps them motivated.

Bill Shankly

#21. No more game playing. It's time we call this fight what it is: a war.

Katie McGarry

#22. At school nobody ever taught us how to light a cigarette in a storm of rain, nor how a fire could be made with wet wood-nor that it is best to stick a bayonet in the belly because there it doesn't get jammed, as it does in the ribs.

Erich Maria Remarque

#23. The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.

Charles Bukowski

#24. Passion has more applications than just about anything. If you don't have a fire in your belly about something, you should go start one.

Cassandra Duffy

#25. Publishing companies are like schoolyard bullies that can't even fight well.

Tucker Max

#26. The fire of purpose easily melts the icicles of obstacles.

Alan Cohen

#27. If you are going to be progressive, then you have to make progress. And that sometimes depends on breaking a few legs.

Jennifer Granholm

#28. Not since the original Mac had a clarity of product vision so propelled a company into the future. If anybody was ever wondering why Apple is on the earth, I would hold up this as a good example

Walter Isaacson

#29. Then her spirit started to stir again. The fire in her belly. The invisible wings on her back twitching, as though her inside could sense a strong wind.

Janna Lafrance

#30. What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Robert Breault

#31. It doesn't matter if a character is a lawyer, a cop or a geography teacher. If there's a story in there, where the character has a passion and a fire in his belly and story to tell, then it's enough for an actor to get excited about.

Clive Standen

#32. The Wanderlust has got me ... by the belly-aching fire

Robert W. Service

#33. With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.

David Limbaugh

#34. The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Leon Edel

#35. Their curses were not aimed at any definite target: they swore at such abstractions as God, the Officers, the Mothers of Others, with more music than meaning.

Mario Vargas-Llosa

#36. I had learnt the satisfaction which comes from hardship and the pleasure which derives from abstinence; the contentment of a full belly; the richness of meat; the taste of clean water; the ecstasy of surrender when the craving of sleep becomes a torment; the warmth of a fire in the chill of dawn.

Wilfred Thesiger

#37. A fire burned in his belly with Helen's words, her challenge laid bare. Are you a king worthy of great glory, or a pretender clamoring for attention at the edge of the world? One look to Menelaus was all the reminder Agamemnon needed of how much he detested that comparison.

Aria Cunningham

#38. Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough.

Jonathan Mostow

#39. It is a big world, full of things that steal your breath and fill your belly with fire...But where you go when you leave isn't as important as where you go when you come home.

Lindsay Eagar

#40. Only death can cure the hip dilettante.

Gilbert Sorrentino