Catch Fire

Famous quotes containing the words catch fire, catch and/or fire:

    “Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “There is grey in your hair.
    Young men no longer suddenly catch their breath
    When you are passing;
    But maybe some old gaffer mutters a blessing
    Because it was your prayer
    Recovered him upon the bed of death.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “As I pursued my bodily functions, wanting
    Neither fire nor water,
    Vibrating to the distant pinch
    And turning out the way I am, turning out to greet you.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)