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)

“People who begin sentences with “I may be old-fashioned but—” are usually not only old-fashioned but wrong. I never thought the time would come when I should catch myself leading off with that crack. But I feel it coming on right now.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

“The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)