Fiery Quotes

Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies. We were all encouraged to believe that the classics of the theater were the fiery hoops through which you`d have to pass if you were going to have any self-esteem as a performer. It never occurred to me that that was the case. One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. The great tradition of liberalism in England is essentially a sponge that absorbs all possibility of change. America looked different to me: the idea of America as a place of infinite possibilities was defined for me through the movies. I`m glad I did the classical work that I did, but it just wasn`t for me. I`m a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that`s the most obvious.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

If you have any opinions at all or if you`re even remotely verbal then they`re going to call you fiery.

At least when Ronald Reagan rode off in the movies into the fiery sunset, he didn`t take us with him

J. Lo, whether she is good or bad, is like a fiery movie star, a throwback to Elizabeth Taylor in her heyday.

(Talking about her favorite scene in Dragonfly (2002)): "My favorite scene was cut from the movie, but it`s this beautiful stethoscope scene, where Joe and Emily are both lying in bed listening to the baby`s heartbeat. It`s just beautifully sensual in a beautifully full pregnant state, aesthetically feminine and loving, with two people totally connected. I also loved the scene when he`s trying to convince her not to go; it established the fiery part of who she is, so committed to living this life that she`s chosen".

Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.

We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan`s fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

(Leinart acknowledged before summer camp began that he was) upset ... The good thing about this year is the coaches are younger and we can relate to them really well. These guys are younger, fiery and they want us to do well. I saw that in spring ball; we did not miss a beat.

A fiery trial which is to try us.

I`m a competitor. I`m a fiery guy. I like to wing it around when I go in there. When I go in there, I`m just going to have fun and everybody`s going to see the way I play.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.