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  • There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

    "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.
  • All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

  • I loved every minute of my childhood - sunbathing on the fire escape, digging for buried treasure in the back yard, pulling alewives out of the sand... Then it was all taken away from me. I came back every summer to visit my father until I was 18, but I was always the outsider.

    Summer   Father   Taken  
  • Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

  • It is your business when the wall next door catches fire.

    Wall   Business   Fire  
    'Epistles' bk. 1, no. 18, l. 84
  • The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

  • Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature.

  • Reckon then that to acquire soul-winning power, you will have to go through mental torment and soul distress. You must go into the fire if you are going to pull others out of it, and you will have to dive into the floods if you are going to draw others out of the water. You cannot work a fire escape without feeling the scorch of the conflagration, nor man a lifeboat without being covered with the waves.

    Winning   Men   Fire  
  • Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

    Life   Escaping   Romance  
  • A flower is a daisy chain, a graduation, a valentine; a flower is New Year's Eve and an orchid in your hair; a flower is a single geranium blooming in a tin can on a murky city fire-escape; an acre of roses at the Botanical Gardens; and the first gold crocus of spring! ... a flower is a birth, a wedding, a leaving of this life.

  • There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

    Mother   Brother   Father  
    Interview with Ricky Young, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.
  • I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.

    Men   Doors   Years  
    "Catch Me if You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake". Book by Frank W. Abagnale, 2002.
  • SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

    Fire   Acres   Soho  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

    "The 32nd Infantry Division in World War II". Book by Harold Whittle Blakeley, 1957.
  • Ever since we were little, we were so on fire for our dreams. We never let anyone blow our flames out.

    Dream   Blow   Fire  
  • As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

    1590-1 Julia to Lucetta.TheTwo Gentlemen ofVerona, act 2, sc.7, l.18-20.
  • I was always someone who lived in the future all the time, it was always the next thing - dreams of escape.

    "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.
  • I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

    Beauty   Beautiful   Fire  
  • To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

    Passion   Fire   Cities  
  • Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks.

    New York   Light   Air  
    Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.11, Random House
  • My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.

    Fire   Naked   Burning  
  • I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

    Thinking   Fire   Missing  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.

    Garden   Thinking   Space  
  • Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

    Life   Wisdom   Spiritual  
  • A climb-out fight is where you climb a building. You climb fire escapes. You climb to the top of the building. You fight on the roof, and you fight all the way down again.

    Fighting   Fire   Way  
    Source: www.tcj.com
  • Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

    Love   Life   Spiritual  
    Emanuel Swedenborg (1871). “Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful Pleasures”, p.310
  • When the guy with asthma finally came in from the fire escape, Parker rabbit-punched him and took his gun away.

    Gun   Fire   Guy  
    "The Mourner". Book by Donald E. Westlake, www.nytimes.com. 1963.
  • I could feel myself changing physically. It was like something dropped out of the sky. Seeing her on the fire escape had given me a certain feeling, and then when I saw the photograph of her, it gave me a similar feeling. And I thought that was an incredibly powerful thing - that a photograph could give you a feeling that was similar to a feeling you had in the physical world. Nobody could've told me that. I knew what I was going to do for the rest of my life.

  • There is only one boss. The customer.

    "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.
  • A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

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