Joanne Harris Quotes

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

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.

The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used.

Fire is our first form of technology.

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

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

Fire is next akin to smoke.

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.

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

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.

Working and making a fire doth discretion require.

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.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

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

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

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

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

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.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

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

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

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.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.