Fires Quotations

When the gun fires you must concentrate for every second on the way to that finish line. You should know exactly how long it will take you to and think about every step of the race you are about to run.

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.

I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character, lines of dialogue, descriptive passages about a place. One idea fires another. I do that for about a year. By then there's a story, and I'll go on to a complete first draft that sews many of those ragtag pieces together.

Once, no self-respecting puncher considered himself dressed for work until he had his feet inside of a pair of $15 boots made by one of the favorite boot-makers, whose merits they discussed about the camp fires night after night.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

Economies are embedded inside ecosystems. Companies dependent on tourism, for example, are affected by low rainfall - there's less snow for skiers, and forest fires are more intense.

We don't consider the battle has ended in Afghanistan... The battle has begun and its fires are picking up. These fires will reach the White House, because it is the center of injustice and tyranny.

The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

The figure of Satan and the fires of hell have been demythologized by modern Christian biblical scholars, theologians and philosophers.

Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind.

Some of the choicest blessings of my life have been the close friendships I have experienced over the years. Often, these friendships have been forged in the fires of shared experience.

Global warming is actually a misnomer. It should be global extremes and global swings, because you add - as you add more energy into the atmosphere, it sloshes around. Energy doesn't simply uniformly warm up the planet. And that means droughts in one area, enormous snowstorms in another area, 100-year floods here, 100-year forest fires there.

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

The potential consequences of these fires can be catastrophic.

We are averaging as many as 15 brush fires a week. We can't always determine the exact cause, but the biggest offender is people flicking cigarette butts out of their cars.

This (the grant) will allow our department to respond more effectively to area fires with a vehicle manufactured to carry an adequate amount of water and fire suppression equipment.

When we came back into Pearl it was pitch dark, and we could see the fires from the Arizona and the other ships still burning in the harbor.

We're focusing on responding to small fires once they've been reported to make sure these small fires don't turn into large fires and further tax our resources.

We're hoping to consolidate (the fires) and certainly the perimeter edges of those fires before the temperatures peak back into the 40s later in the week.

With these types of fires and how fast and aggressively they burn, this needs to be a wake-up call for people to be careful.

With the perpetual drip of bad publicity, it was difficult for them to be given the benefit of the doubt. The spotlight should be on her capabilities. But ... how can you shine when you're putting out fires and in crisis-management mode?

With three fires in a matter of hours, we knew the case had to be treated as a priority. Our patrol officers went into the complex and spoke with everyone they could. They gathered a lot of information.

With the winds we have today (30-35 mph in Boulder County), you could have fires that could outrace fire trucks trying to chase it. You could have fires that move so fast, you can't get out of the way on time. You could start not just losing a home, but home after home after home.

When folks do have fires in the evening, we do advise them to stay with their fires and have a means of extinguishing it. They should also leave 10 feet of clearing area around the fire.

We were basically on the edges of roads. When the wind starts kicking up again, any of those fires could get pushed on to roads and in to grass.

We desperately need to bring the ecosystem back into balance. The smaller trees in that area act as ladders to take fires into the taller Sequoias.

We have responded to several grass fires in the last few weeks, but there have been no structure fires. For us, it has been considerably more than we normally run.

We have responded to several fires at this location in the past. This one was a large fire. The structure is going to be deemed unsafe.

We're hitting these fires very hard and heavy from the air. Local firefighters are starting to call in air resources very early to get on top of these fires before they get out of hand.

There are typically 70 fires each year, so we're way ahead of pace (for one month). We were behind. We should have known it was too good to be true.

Several of these fires got away and were burning very close to homes and communities.

She wanted it a lot. It's an emotional rivalry. She's the leader. She's the one that fires everyone up. She's gonna take it hard.

She's never been afraid to shoot. She just fires it up there and luckily, most of the time, it goes in. If she'll miss a couple of shots, she's so used to shooting that that's not going to get her down. If she misses five, the sixth one's going up. No hesitation whatsoever.

My friends, this was a massive effort ranging over 180 miles in six counties, probably the worst fires in California history,

More than 90 percent of the forest fires are provoked, either through negligence or by intention,

Montana has problems, Idaho has problems. Our fear is that those big fires are going to burn together.

People would come in with frying pans, big axes, and they'd build fires and they'd have cans of stuff and they'd throw their cans down and hike on ... and we don't see that anymore.

My teammates get me fired me up. The sport fires me up man, I love lacrosse. I love being out here.

One of the biggest fires we had in 1985 was actually started by a beer bottle that had been reflecting sunlight and then it bounced off and started a fire.

One of the issues that the Legislature needs to look at now that we've had serious outbreaks of fires is whether or not in hindsight we should have funded that.

If we have any intelligence on people who may be lighting fires we pass that on to police. We leave the day-to-day monitoring to the police.

I have great kids, one through 15. We knew we weren't going to have to put out any fires all year. They're great people and they're a lot of to be around.

I have determined that these fires are of such severity and magnitude that effective recovery is beyond the capabilities of the state and affected local government, and that supplementary federal assistance is necessary,

I bet for an Indian, shooting an old fat pioneer woman in the back with an arrow, and she fires her shotgun into the ground as she falls over, is like the top thing you can do.

Carelessness with debris burning is a leading cause of wildfires in Mississippi. Windy conditions increase the number of fires, size of fires and their intensity. Frost has killed grass and weeds, making this vegetation a fuel source for fires in addition to limbs, leaves and other vegetative debris in woods and on undeveloped property.

But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Ring was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, the Dark Lord Sauron forged in secret a master Ring, to control all others. And into this Ring he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life. ""One Ring to rule them all."" One by one, the Free Lands of Middle Earth fell to the power of the Ring. But there were some who resisted. A Last Alliance of Men and Elves marched against the armies of Mordor and on the slopes of Mount Doom, they fought for the freedom of Middle Earth. Victory was near. But the power of the Ring could not be undone.

I'm always cautious to downplay range fires, because if it's your ranch building or grazing allotment that got burned up it's pretty important. But timber fires require a lot more people, equipment, time and money to put out, and so far even when we've had lightning ignition, we didn't get the large fire initiation.

I have never been a part of anything like this. It's been the most un-fun. To me it's been one nightmare after another. It's like I am working for the fire department and putting out fires every day.

I can't say that we went through the academy because we weren't being tested and we knew we had a job, but we did set some fires and put them out.

Given that fact, the timing, and the rate at which the fires moved, the damage to the plant community might not be as bad as we think it is." ()

He talks to me every game. It always fires me up. It's so inspirational to have him talk to you. When he talks to you, you know you have to do what he says.

He fires quite a lot of AAA (anti-aircraft artillery) and missiles at us

We've fought a few fires with our brothers from New Orleans. We've gone and tried to clean out some of the homes of folks down here, and I wish we could do more, but we're doing what we can. It's a good feeling. At least we're doing some good.

We suspect that the fires (in the Meadows) were caused by firecrackers. Fireworks are illegal on campus for this very reason. We certainly don't want to torch the Meadows.

Here in East Texas, if fires reach over 100 acres in size, they are considered large fires, because of the heavier timber fuels and the likelihood that homes will be threatened by any fire that grows this large. A 4,000-acre fire is a huge fire in this region.

He's always played like a leader out there on the field. But he's more vocal before we go out there, right before the games. He speaks up and kind of fires guys up.

Keep small fires small and knock them down. We will attack fires with everything we've got. I don't mind if we're accused of going overboard.

Keep in mind that all fires start small. You have everything you need in a candle to lose your apartment or house.

Joey Porter means a lot to our defense. He's a guy that fires everybody up. His presence out there adds fuel to our flames. Just him being out there elevates the whole level of our defense. That's something that's going to continue on. We expect it from him, and he expects it from himself.

It bothers me to think about it -- the kids are starting fires and they're firefighters. It's wrong.

It has allowed for more fires and the wind has fanned those fires, turning them into hundreds, if not thousands of acres.

I think Tony did a great job doing what he had to do, putting out a lot of fires and cleaning up a huge mess. He deserves a lot of credit. I know at the end of the day people are going to look towards him, and it has no reflection on what he?s done here. Not many people could do (what he did). He should be rewarded for it in some way.

It is one of the biggest fires we've had in this region,

I was working at the 'New York Times,' ruing every second of my life, thinking how was I ever going to get out of here, and thinking that one could only do it the way newspaper people have always done it. I needed a scoop, and I would go out and I would dream upon coming upon fires or the sky falling in front of me or anything.

I see film as a real opportunity to examine the human condition. No matter where the technology goes in the future, the basics don't change. Storytelling is a primitive tribal function. The elders sat around the fires and told these stories as a way to pass on the 'dos' and the 'don'ts.' That will never change.

Overall, we've had a pretty good day. With a couple of notable exceptions, the fires have not grown in any great way.

Our crews have responded to over 4,900 fires and we had somewhere around 100,000 acres of forest land burned in the state.

Right now the Constitution is mere paper, with no bearing upon the British people, although they might find it good for doorstops, good for real fires and good for fish and chips.

Roads are not only crucial in fighting forest fires but also in promoting forest health.

Our last two fires had smoke detectors, but no batteries, ... We're praying to get the word out (about smoke alarms).

Some of the fires in Idaho and Montana are affecting wildlife habitat and salmon habitat in places we're trying to restore salmon runs, ... So the fire is working against us, and we're going to have a lot of work after the fires are out to try and rehabilitate these areas and try to reduce the risk of more resource damage.

Some of the fires are so hot, so challenging, that it's difficult for us to make any progress,

Matters have just gotten more grave and more serious, ... Potentially, these fires could last into the fall, until we receive snow. We're planning for the worst of circumstances.

It fires me up. It should fire everyone up. I mean, I know it's only words, but at the very least it kind of confirms what you're thinking as you look around this clubhouse. We are a great team -- or at least we should be. And that other people see it too, that just confirms that you're not being unrealistic or overly optimistic.

Just because a county may drop its burn ban, though, doesn't mean that all risk of escaped fires is gone and that residents can throw all caution to the wind with their outdoor burning. With dry weather and gusty winds predicted for most of the week, the risk of grass fires will likely grow with every day that passes without rain.

It is essential to pool our resources because we have fires in Portugal, but tomorrow there could be others in Spain, in Italy, in Greece.

Most retailers are busy putting out fires all day. They have to spend their time working in their business, rather than on their business.

That way we can advise them of fire risks, and we also know where fires are planned when other citizens call to report a fire.

We continue to have little rain and the vegetation is drier than usual, so the potential for more fires is increased.

We can't do much about the weather. All we can do is ask the people to be vigilant and to keep an eye out for suspicious behavior and to report fires early so we can actually get to them early.

We're already seeing the benefits of larger fires keeping new fires smaller.

We really want to protect the public from a potential hazard especially with situation of grass fires (and) how it affected our area.

We had a little bit of rain to come in. It helped for about two days. And now we're back to the way we were two days...you know, last week we were chasing fires, and all the fires been 100 acres plus. The same thing's happening now. It just takes a little spark, and the fire runs and it's hard to catch it.

Virtually every time the U.S. fires a missile from a drone and ends the lives of Muslims, American media outlets dutifully trumpet in headlines that the dead were 'militants' - even though those media outlets literally do not have the slightest idea of who was actually killed.

With the gusty winds, low humidity and all the hard freezes lately, it's created an abundant amount of dry, dead fuels. Our big concern is that (debris) fires are going to get away from people and the winds will pick them up and they'll race across the brush.

We have had fires underground but none that we can remember that have been this tricky.

We have a lot of communities that are located in these forested areas, and we're going to have to focus on making sure that they're protected almost exclusively now because these forest fires have gotten so out of control,

We have a lot of communities that are located in these forested area and we're going to have to focus on making sure that they're protected almost exclusively now because these forest fires have gotten so out of control,

We have the hottest, driest weather in perhaps 50 years; we have thousands of lightning strikes an hour; we have 300 new fires every day in the West, largely because of lightning strikes,

Typically if the rating goes down, then your response times go down, the equipment is better and the overall level of the suppression of fires is better.

Three major fires were growing and threatening about 30,000 residents, ... Thus far, they have not come together. Right now, there is not an immediate threat of them coming together.

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror, ... The sight of planes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger.

While temperature will ease overnight the fires will continue to burn and we won't know the real damage until the morning.

We had enough problems with trees coming down and bringing down power lines and causing fires without people starting them deliberately.

We fought forest fires together, like for two weeks on the fire lines, 12 hours a day, so we know a little bit about each other, you know.

The problem now is Arroyo will be spending all her time putting out political fires and looking over her back and not concentrating on the real job of putting the country right.

Those fires in South Central spread to mid-Central, then North Wilshire, then on the verge of Hollywood and Beverly Hills,