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)

“No you won’t catch me, old Slithergadee,
You may catch all the others, but you wo . . .”
—Shel Silverstein (b.1932)

“This Indian camp was a slight, patched-up affair, which had stood there several weeks, built shed-fashion, open to the fire on the west.... Altogether it was about as savage a sight as was ever witnessed, and I was carried back at once three hundred years.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)