Benjamin Whorf Quotes

It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

There's nothing wrong with the car except that it's on fire.

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

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.

I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.

The kind of event on a conveyor belt that causes a fire occurs in a variety of industrial environments, not uniquely in coal environments.

We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

If Europe blazes in the late spring or summer, we must put our house in order before the sparks reach the Western Hemisphere.

I put a bushfire out. It was one of the most incredible things, terrifying. We get them a lot in Australia.

I've always been interested in social psychology and why certain groups of people do things while others don't.

California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.

Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.