“Actually, I caught myself thinking that I was hoping for someone to break into my apartment and steal my computer, or a big fire would take place in my apartment, or thinking of uninstalling my firewall so someone could hack into my computer. I just had all these dreams and eventually realized what I needed to do was delete the songs because I really wasn't happy with them. I needed a fresh beginning.” ThinkingDreamBigsSongBreakFireNeededComputerCaughtStealingApartmentHacks Author:Jens Lekman
“I think a lot of things can be misconstrued in a lot of ways. And I think if people open their minds more, and they try to look deeper into something than just something that is a very big, hot, fiery button to hide behind...I think if people looked into something bigger that I was trying to speak upon, they wouldn't be so easy to fire back silly, miscellaneous things.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayTryingMindLooksBigsSpeakEasyBehindsFireBiggerHotDeeperSillyButtonsMiscellaneousFieryMisconstrued Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.” ThinkingBigsCoursesFireParticularBandLogicFollowingTendenciesThemeParadesFollow ThroughArcadesArcade Fire Author:Dan Bejar
“The church for too long has followed Casper, the friendly ghost instead of seeking the fire of the Holy Spirit. We have turned limp at the thought of our own cross; we faint when we think of suffering or sacrifice. Beloved, it is time to embrace the fire of God's Presence. It is the fire that purifies our sacrifice.” ThinkingLongSpiritSufferingChurchFireSacrificeHolyCrossesEmbraceSeekingGhostBelovedHoly SpiritFriendlyGod's PresenceCasperFire Of God Author:Francis Frangipane
“Most people think of the economy as producing goods and services and paying labor to buy what it produces. But a growing part of the economy in every country has been the Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) sector, which comprises the rent and interest paid to the economy's balance sheet of assets by debtors and rent payers.” PeopleThinkingHas BeensRealCountryInterestEconomyFireGrowingProduceBalanceLaborPaidFinanceGoodsAssetsEstatesSheetsGoods And ServicesDebtorsBalance Sheets Author:Michael Hudson
“To me there's nothing to get excited about with Hillary Clinton. I mean, maybe there's things to get excited about in terms of, scared of, opposition. But I don't think Hillary has this large army of devoted fans willing to go through fire for her.” ThinkingMeanTermFireFansWillingArmyClintonScaredExcitedOppositionDevoted Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time. I think if we don't deliver this message, it's negligence of the highest order. It would be like if you were walking down the street and a house was on fire and you heard screams coming from inside and you just kept walking. How irresponsible is that? At the very least, call 911 but better yet, you might run in and try to save the people.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingMightWould BeRunningOrderHouseFireHeardStreetsWalkingMessagesNewsHighestScreamGood NewsIrresponsibleNegligence Author:Greg Laurie
“You're investing in a different part of your life that is really important. It's not as important when you're a kid and you don't require sleep, and you don't get hung over, and you can fire on all cylinders. At 32 I don't consider myself old by any means, but you just find yourself in a place where you can't do everything the way you once did, and you have to take time to reflect and I think that's really important, because you get to appreciate what you have, and to enjoy it.” ThinkingWayMeanImportantDifferentKidsEnjoySleepFireAppreciateInvestingFinding YourselfTake TimeHungAppreciate What You HaveCylinders Author:Sophia Amoruso
“You know, my sense is that transparency is a good thing. It also has to be what - private information should be safeguarded so that individuals are not caught in the cross-fire here. But I think that our government, and people who are working in our government who should have been on the record - Hillary Clinton, remember, deleted half of her email, which is like, what's wrong with this picture?” PeopleThinkingKnowsShouldHas BeensGovernmentRememberIndividualHalfRecordsFireInformationCrossesShould HaveGood ThingsClintonCaughtEmailTransparencyShould Have Been Author:Jill Stein
“We limit ourselves so much. And, we limit heaven too. We think it's a place where angels just play harps. And hell has to be fire and brimstone. But that's very untrue.” ThinkingPlayHeavenHellFireLimitsAngelUntrueHarps Author:James Van Praagh
“One night around that time, at Hammersmith, Bob Dylan was about to go into [his 1963 classic] 'Don't Think Twice, It's Alright.He said, 'Hey, Bucky! Play mandolin on this.' I am not really a mandolin player; I could only play in certain keys. Halfway through, he stops the band, turns to the audience and points to me. He says: 'He isn't playing, he's miming.' And then: 'Should I fire him?' The whole audience yells.” ThinkingShouldSaidPlayWholeNightCertainTurnsAudienceFirePlayerKeysBandHeyClassicBobShould IDylanHalfwayOne NightAlrightThink Twice Author:Bob Dylan
“I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that stuff scares me.” ThinkingStuffSoundFireStageScareHypnotic Author:Robert Englund
“For those in the conservative movement to think that you're going to change minds only by preaching to the choir, you don't understand how media works. So that's probably the most potent weapon out there is to go fight the fire, go towards the fire.” ThinkingMindFightingFireMediaMovementWeaponsConservativePreachingChoirPreaching To The Choir Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Liftoff is very, very gentle, contrary to what most people think. Because you remember, the weight of the booster - the amount of thrust on the engine is just barely enough to get the booster underway. And so it's a very gentle liftoff, contrary to what most people think when they see all the fire and smoke of launch.” PeopleThinkingEnoughRememberFireAmountWeightContrarySmokeGentleEnginesThrust Author:John Glenn
“I think they [TV productions] were just kind of drying up. I'd done a couple of episodes, but nothing was happening. So I went to Vancouver to visit a buddy and see what was going on, and that year was crazy. Vancouver was on fire at that point. It was all these Stephen J. Cannell productions - The Commish being one of them - and in one I was a bartender, and I think I had five lines.” ThinkingYearsKindDoneLinesFireFiveCrazyTvsCoupleHappeningsProductionsEpisodesBuddyVancouverBartender Author:Eric McCormack
“Turning pot handles the other way around on the stove, making sure you talk with your family and kids directly about fire safety and about kitchen safety, keeping your tree at least three feet from a heater or any kind of lights or flames, making sure that candles aren't left unattended. It's all things that we should know and we think about initially, but during the holidays, in the commotion it seems to get kind of lost.” ThinkingKnowsWayShouldKindLightSeemsKidsThreeLostLeftFireTreeFeetAll ThingsSafetyHandleFlamesOur FamilyKitchenHolidayPotCandleStoves Author:Charlie Barnett
“I don't think Donald Trump is an ideologue, so it's not really his policies that I think are going to maybe fire people up. It's his rhetoric and, you know, his willingness to wield power in a manner that can be potentially exploitative and dangerous.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFireDangerousPolicyTrumpWillingnessRhetoricIdeologues Author:Megyn Kelly
“I think we have got to put fire under the feet of all kinds of people.” PeopleThinkingKindFireFeetAll Kinds Author:Desmond Tutu
“Reading [Judd Apatow] book, about his background, I think there's a great similarity. What gives him the fire to work hard? He worked hard, researching the comedians of the time, what touched him about it.” ThinkingGivingBookHardReadingFireHard WorkBackgroundsComedianTouchedSimilarity Author:David Copperfield
“I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the fire to teach you how to think and how to make things and it informed the architecture that I was doing. It's better coming in with that history and that kind of knowledge and depth of understanding of humanity that is very important for building buildings - for understanding people and how they should live and how you could make your lives better and stuff like that.” PeopleThinkingShouldKindImportantKidsUsedHumanityStuffUnderstandingTeachFireBuildingDepthArchitectureFuel Author:Frank Gehry
“I remember the president-elect [Donald Trump] saying that I`m going to do something to dramatically, positively change communities, particularly in urban areas, and I think we`ve got to hold his feet to the fire to all those issues as well as all the issues that you addressed, you and many others addressed yesterday as it relates to criminal justice, as it relates to voting oppression.” ThinkingWellsRememberPresidentCommunityJusticeIssuesFireFeetTrumpAreasCriminalsYesterdayOppressionRelateVotingUrbanPositivelyCriminal JusticeUrban Areas Author:Al Sharpton
“I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.” PeopleThinkingKnowsKindPersonsShowsBigsArtistRealizingDealsFireStrangeHugePerceptionTunesEmbarrassingBig DealCocoonsItunesArcadesShow TunesArcade Fire Author:Anna Kendrick
“I was travelling with Bruce Sterling on our mutual Difference Engine tour and he became aware from the experience of travelling with me that I would distinguish among the shoes in a perfectly normal fashion, but form him it was a revelation. There's a very lyrical passage in Holy Fire about old wealthy European men and their shoes, and how beautiful their shoes are, and how there have never been shoes as beautiful. I think that that was probably as close as Bruce will ever get to homage in my direction. I made him aware of footwear fashion.” ThinkingMenMadeBeautifulFormDifferencesFireFashionHolyNormalShoesRevelationsMutualWealthyPassagesEnginesHomageLyricalSterlingFootwearPerfectly Normal Author:William Gibson
“[Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.” ThinkingMenKindSaidDealsFireDogGrewGoes OnMen And WomenResponseCriticizeNonviolenceTomsUnclesApprovedPolishedUncle Tom Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.” PeopleThinkingWarDoneMightFireGoes OnDecadesCease Author:Nguyen Viet Thang
“Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something in the world that wasn't there that can reach other folks and help them to process?"” ThinkingWorldHardHelpingProcessChallengesFireOkayFolksAssHard TimesPrioritize Author:Morgan Parker
“I think this [ statement that Donald Trump would fight for LGBTQ people] is not just a story of the media spinning people up, but it's a story of special interests on the left, who also feel like their candidate lost, and stoking the flames on the fire because it helps spin up their supporters and help their donations and help their organizations. And it helps, frankly, polarize the country to their short-term benefit and at the expense, frankly, of progress for LGBTQ Americans.” PeopleThinkingFeelsCountryHelpingStoriesFightingLostLeftTermInterestFireProgressSpecialMediaTrumpBenefitsOrganizationStatementsFlamesCandidatesExpensesSupporterShort TermSpinningSpecial InterestsDonation Author:Margaret Hoover
“Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and emerging as something a little different.” ThinkingLittlesBookDifferentReadingNovelFireBurningEmergingBurning Bush Author:Suhayl Saadi
“I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if I can get them and grab them by the scruff of the neck and say, you can do this, and if I see that fire in their eyes, that's when I think I know a writer.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWritingI CanEyeCan DoTeachFireDialogueNecksPlot Author:Colum McCann
“I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.” ThinkingWritingStillsFactsUsedFightingHoursFireEightComing BackFiremanDrawbacks Author:David Mamet
“I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.” ThinkingMindFireGeniusBreathePassingPassingsSmall ThingsProfanityDemented Author:Marilyn Manson
“In my first book, Under Fire, I wrote that I revered Ronald Reagan. That was a dozen years ago. I still feel that way. I think he changed the world for the better for my children and my children's children.” ThinkingWorldWayFeelsYearsFirstsChildrenStillsBookFireChangedYears AgoMy ChildrenDozen Author:Oliver North
“I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much.” IfsThinkingStillsHardGuyWaitingFireFeetRepublicanOfficeHardestLike MeHittingRomneyNewtsDon't Like Me Author:Glenn Beck