Paul Engle Quotes

You know what burns me? Matches.

Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit.

Fire—without hatred.

I'm just fire.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

Greene wood makes a hott fire.

Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Fire is one of my temperaments. It is behind all my work... Fire is a chemical presence.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.

I could start a fire from scratch.

A fire in a forest is alive with terror and power.

Open-faced, traditional, wood-burning fireplaces are very inefficient.

Two dry Sticks will burn a green One.

The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

Flame is very near to smoke.