I didn't learn fire-eating to conquer my fears. I learned fire-eating because I desperately wanted to be in show business..

Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horr….

In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refiner’s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant ….

The definition of a stupid thing is something that if you do everything right, you still get hurt. Fire-eating and love are stupid things..

Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire..

Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even k….

I like to try to keep things as relaxed and easy as possible. I mean, movies generally attract a lot of people who like to cause fires, so they can l….

I tap a Malediction out of the box, fire it up, and puff. It tastes like a tire fire in a candy factory next door to a strip club. The best cigarette….

I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird ….

The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to he….

The part of us that has to be burned away is something like the deadwood on the bush; it has to go, to be burned in the terrible fire of reality, unt….

The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its….

The same fire that hardens the egg will melt the butter; and much depends on the personality type, whether you customarily rise to a challenge or whe….

It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and settle slowly..

No wonder all the great comedians had such destructive private lives. ... After you get the audience into that kind of frenzy, and you are being wors….

Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by….

And we daily in our experiments electrise bodies plus or minus, as we think proper. [These terms we may use till your Philosophers give us better.] T….

We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put it out..

I was always around people who were in the business from the time I was an absolute baby. I grew up in New York City, and my parents, my sister, and ….

What's this?" Nick said. "Bedtime?" No one answered him. I kept my eyes closed. You look positively content, Clayton," Nick continued, thumping down ….

You cannot make steel until you have made the iron white-hot in fire. It is not meant for harm. Trouble and disease have a lesson for us. Our painful….