Harry Houdini Quotes

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

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.

Fire—without hatred.

Fire is next akin to smoke.

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

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

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

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

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Fire is our first form of technology.

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.

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

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.

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.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

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

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

I fought fire with oil.

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.

One man's beard is on fire, and another man warms his hands on it.

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

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

When we approached the target at half-past two, we stared silently into a sea of flames such as none of us had ever seen before …. In Belfast, there was not a large number of conflagrations, but just one enormous conflagration …