#fire

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet. ↗

— John Keble

#contact #fire #kindled #mind #poet

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else. ↗

— Whitey Herzog

#fired #get #hired #make #manager

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault. ↗

— Paul von Hindenburg

#assault #before #bodies #clear #enemy

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#fire #free #free speech #means #right

To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#burned #cause #charcoal #distill #face

I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all. ↗

— Keenen Ivory Wayans

#fire #i #intimidating #just #under

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? ↗

— Andrea Jung

#business #ceo #change #come #con

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day. ↗

— Jay-Z

#any #around #coming #day #fire

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#fire #further #go #must #obstacle

I don't know anyone who actually likes the dark or night-time. I don't care how much they say it doesn't bother them. That's why we used to huddle in caves and light fires when the sun went down. ↗

— Paul Kane

#anyone #bother #care #caves #dark