#fires

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another, comparisons only fan the fires. ↗

— Dorothy Corkville Briggs

#breeding #comes #compare #comparisons #fan

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

#fires #his #impossibilities #made #man

If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#built #could #days #dwell #fires

In New York alone, there was an average of more than 300 campus fires per year between 1997 and 2000, with roughly 160 of them annually in dormitories. ↗

— Vito Fossella

#annually #average #between #campus #fires

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. ↗

— Zsa Zsa Gabor

#go #husbands #like #out #unattended

I've been through WTO riots in Seattle, massive earthquakes, major floods... forest fires. I just try to be as even-keeled and calm as possible. ↗

— Gary Locke

#calm #earthquakes #fires #floods #forest

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#big mistake #build #cook #country #fires

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. ↗

— David Mamet

#back #coming #could #day #drawback

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budget #drought #ever #faced #farmers