Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life. – Manfred von Richthofen
Growing up in New Orleans and just being in a poverty-stricken neighborhood gave me that same fire that Eazy had to separate himself from what could have ended up being such a bad situation. – Jason Mitchell
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
I was a pizza delivery boy at the Pizza Oven in Canton. I wanted to get fired so bad, I actually wrecked the delivery car, but they wouldn’t fire me because I was the only person they had working there. – Marilyn Manson
I was so focused and so driven, there was this fire inside of me that was burning so brightly. – Kyle Shewfelt
It’s interesting, the things you learn when you’re 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you’re not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you. – Katee Sackhoff
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicago’s second city of garages was my young life’s passion. – Lynn Margulis
My daughter, I’m proud to say, is senior vice president of ABC Family network. She could hire and fire me. She has hired me, but she has not fired me. – Jessica Walter
Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that’s in your audience’s eye. – Ken Kesey
Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even – and especially – when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street. – Jack Antonoff
Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O’Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city’s West Side. – Karen Abbott
Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: ‘Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning – the zygotes or the children?’ – Kurt Eichenwald
Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York – because otherwise I don’t walk anywhere – and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, ‘Are you all right?’ and she was still taking pictures. – Kate Moss
We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river. – Knute Nelson
I don’t want to be in boardrooms talking about hiring hairdressers and minivans. I’m not good at it, and I don’t like to hire and fire people. I hate that. It’s horrible. – Kim Cattrall
There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god. – John B. S. Haldane
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. – Luke Perry
This record has a lot of influences that I’d love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I’ll do some covers of my major influences during my live show. – Jon Secada
The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage. – Jessica Savitch
If my house was on fire, I can’t compromise about which part of the house I’m going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not. – Marco Rubio
Now I would go to London’s Pudding Lane on 2 September 1666 and put out that little fire. I’d love to investigate the histories of a few of the buildings that burned for Restoration Home. – Kate Williams
I had written a novel that was more of a classic linear novel, and I worked on it and worked on it for years, and it always seemed like it wouldn’t catch fire. At a certain point I just scrapped it all, and I kept maybe 15 percent of it, and I wrote those parts out on note cards. – Jenny Offill
Realistically, it’s the great truism that screenwriters are fungible, that at the end of the day a studio is not going to want to fire a movie star. And they’re really not going to want to fire a star director because the director has the hand on the tiller of a ship. – John Logan
