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“There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it.”

Kind Two Helping Film House Rooms Fire Four Doors Figures Directors Plus Locks

Author:Michael Pitt

“The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time.”

Source: Mere Christianity

“Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.”

May School Memories Rooms Fire Minutes Color Unique All Things Burning Flash Smallest Globes Spinning Flare

Author:Delmore Schwartz

“It would seem that the full meaning of the word marriage can never be known by those who, at their first outspring into life, are surrounded by all that money can give. It requires the single sitting-room, the single fire, the necessary little efforts of self-devotion, the inward declaration that some struggle shall be made for that other one.”

Giving Firsts Littles Made Self Seems Rooms Effort Known Struggle Fire Sitting Devotion Inward Declaration

Book:The Bertrams: A Novel

Source: The Bertrams: A Novel

“I learned a history not then written in books but one passed from generation to generation on the steps of moonlit porches and beside dying fires in one-room houses, a history of great-grandparents and of slavery and of the days following slavery; of those who lived still not free, yet who would not let their spirits be enslaved.”

Stills Book Spirit House Rooms Steps History Fire Written Generations Dying Slavery Following Grandparent Porch Great Grandparents

Book:Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

Source: Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

“A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.”

People Feelings Past Rooms Cities Fire Distance Photograph Woods Absence Landscape Erotic Tokens Unattainable Pseudo Reverie Desirability Incitement

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“This is part of what it means to become holy, to be refined by fire. Difficulties and sufferings are God's form of hazing. Sometimes it gets so hard, we think Him cruel. But He's only looking for men and women who will keep their cool when things go horribly wrong, a people prepared to dash into burning rooms to rescue those about to be engulfed in flames.”

People Thinking Men Mean Sometimes Hard Form Suffering Rooms Fire Holy Men And Women Difficulty Prepared Burning Flames Rescue Refined Hazing Looking For A Man

Author:Mark Galli

“Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]”

Water Rooms Fire Soldier

Author:George Herbert

“Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyte Saga' was on. Now we all just have a long list of unwatched shows, all of which, it seems, our friends are raving about. I feel as outdated as if I wore a Fair Isle sweater, ate Pot Noodle and had a two-bar electric fire in the sitting room.”

Ifs Feels Long Two Shows Seems Rooms Fire Sitting Fairs Lists Bars Video Pot Electric Invitations Sweaters Saga Outdated Isle Noodles

Author:Simon Hoggart

“Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.”

Source: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club

“Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his constitution were analogous to that of a muffin, and it was essential to toast him brown while he was very new.”

Ifs Littles Funny Rooms Fire Fronts Son Arms Essentials Lows Humorous Constitution Lays Corners Warm Sat Brown Chairs Baskets Toasts Muffins

Book:Dombey and Son

Source: Dombey and Son

“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.”

Mind Sometimes Universe Voice Water Rooms Fantasy Fire Sky Mountain Ocean Bones Breathe Dragons Paradox Pearls Thunder Petals Oysters Marrow Copper Marshes Jingles Bone Marrow

Author:Maxine Hong Kingston

“When you work in front of the people, either in a film or in television, the people who are in the room with you are not watching you work, they're working so you'd have to light a fire to get them to watch what you were doing.”

People Light Film Rooms Watches Fire Fronts Television

Author:Richard Dreyfuss

“Packing is basically: If you're going on a weekend, then just take what you're really going to wear. And how many times are you going to leave the room? If that makes any sense. Like if you're going to sleep, read, and sit by a fire - chunky knit sweaters, leggings, comfortable boots. But if you're going on like a party weekend, then bring your favorite pieces and make sure you'll wear them.”

Ifs Sleep Rooms Party Fire Pieces Comfortable Weekend Boots Going To Sleep Sweaters Your Favorite Packing Leggings

Author:Rachel Zoe