Quotes: Fire

The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I’ve seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

I’ve had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there’s not a fire anymore.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story… I don’t if anybody knows what it is but it was about… in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.