Ridley Scott Quotes

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

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

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.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

A drop of water can't stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

Stamping out fires is a lot of fun, but it is only putting things back the way they were.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

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

I fought fire with oil.

Every fire hydrant in the country will be concerned.

They have under invested in fire for so long that the catch up costs seem staggering. The traditional inclination is to rely on emergency interventions rather than systemic reforms.

Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires

I grew up in Sedgefield, which is in the heart of the area along the Garden Route that has been ravaged by fire.

I always had a pretty serious fascination with fire. Luckily I'm not an arsonist!

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.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

In any case, fire burns; that's its nature, and you can't expect to change that. You can use it to cook your meat or to burn down your neighbor's house. And is the fire you use for cooking any different from the one you use for burning? And does that mean you should eat your supper raw?" Maddy shook her head, still puzzled. "So what you're saying is . . . I shouldn't play with fire," she said at last. Of course you should," said One-Eye gently. "But don't be surprised if the fire plays back.

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

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

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

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.