Red Imported Fire

Famous quotes containing the words red, imported and/or fire:

    Where the slow river
    meets the tide,
    a red swan lifts red wings
    and darker beak.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
    You may get a bland smile from these sages;
    But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
    Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice—there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.
    Frank Zappa (1940–1993)