Coals Quotes

(on director George Cukor) Mr. Cukor is a hard task-master, a fine director and he took me over the coals giving me the roughest time I have ever had. And I am eternally grateful.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Perhaps he wanted to be alone with Dr. G., who was here, but he should have let me know. At Hoffmann`s I felt I was sitting on hot coals, expecting him to arrive every moment.

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.

Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

The difference between the mile and the marathon is the difference between burning your fingers with a match and being slowly roasted over hot coals