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)
“The madness of love can always be suspended—to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)