Paul Engle Quotes

Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks.

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

I always have the most fun on the Fourth of July. You don't have to exchange any gifts. You just go to the beach and watch fireworks. It's always fun.

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat.

I grew up in New York City, and I've got wonderful memories of the Fourth of July fireworks.

The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

Summer at the Hollis household is all about us getting together and enjoying the pool, and Fourth of July is probably one of my favorite holidays to do just that.

There is an almost universal experience in physicists, at least of my generation, which is home-made pyrotechnics.

Soldiers of the American Revolution fought that 18th century war with heavy muskets. In the early 20th century, we kids fought it every Fourth of July not only with exploding powder and shimmering flares, but with all of our senses.

There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.

No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.

Growing up in Arizona, I love fireworks, shooting off bottle rockets and M80s.

One reason I chose gunpowder is that I had the good luck in my environment to be exposed to gunpowder. The other reason is I was always looking for a visual language that goes beyond the boundary of nations, and so I found gunpowder.

When I was young, the constraints of Chinese society and my personal timid and cautious nature both drove me to seek a means to go against control. Gunpowder has an inherent uncertainty and uncontrollability and is an important means for me to relieve myself of constraint.

When I was a kid, I had to try a lot of pyrotechnics just so people would know who I was.

We all know you can't have a Fourth of July barbecue without the fixings that go with it.

You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.

I just got a new dog, so I was worried that he'd hate the fireworks, and he did, but just because he's not a patriot, not because of the loud sounds. The loud sounds he's fine with - he just hates America.

[To her younger sister on using drugs:] If you do that stuff, you're dancing with the devil, because you never know when you're going to cross the line and not be able to get back.

I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death.

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance.

You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.

I was all set to blow some crap up.