In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally. – Harry Houdini
Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low. – Henry Ward Beecher
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. – Charles Caleb Colton
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light. – Albert Schweitzer
That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet. – Bear Grylls
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak. – August Strindberg
I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame. – Amanda Palmer
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. – Charles Dickens
I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes. – Bob Uecker
My books are inert as cordwood till a reader’s imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life. – David James Duncan
In the 40 or so years I’ve known David Puttnam, not only has he pursued an outstanding career in films and now politics, but he has been the keeper of the flame of the British film industry. – Melvyn Bragg
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? – Franz Schubert
My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness – whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame. – F. Sionil Jose
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. – Ernest Hemingway
That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council. – Nostradamus
When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. – The Bible Isaiah 43:2
Any committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. There must be somebody who provides the flame. – Lady Bird Johnson
The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached. – Kate Chopin
Welding torches, cutting torches and any activity producing a flame outside is prohibited. Any open flame is discouraged. – John Glover
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men’s candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame. – Jane Porter
I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off. – Kellan Lutz
Waka Flocka Flame, some of his lyrics are, like, common sentences. But just the way he is, and the way he delivers it, makes it this crazy metal hip-hop. – Kreayshawn
They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch. – Marquis de Sade
‘Tommy’ was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn’t ‘the show’ that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I’d never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed. – Josh Young
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come. – Rabindranath Tagore
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge