The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.
I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.
There is only one boss. The customer.
Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.
Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.
I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls.
I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a certain feeling, and then when I saw the photograph of her, it gave me a similar feeling. And I thought that was an incredibly powerful thing - that a photograph could give you a feeling that was similar to a feeling you had in the physical world. Nobody could've told me that. I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.
I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.
Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.
A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.
To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.
When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.
There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.
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