Firecracker Quotes:

We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.

- Vance Havner

topic: Needs, Preaching, Firecracker

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

- Stanley Kubrick

source: "Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine". Book by Phillipe Mather, p. 46, 2013.

topic: Education, Motivation, Fear, Firecracker, Big Mistake

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

- Dick Dale

topic: Mean, Ems, Sides, Maniacs, Firecracker

The stars whirled above us and the firecrackers blazed. The moon stood watch as drops of blood fell, careless seeds that sizzled in the snow.

- Laurie Halse Anderson

topic: Stars, Moon, Blood, Firecracker

I hear a little firecracker go off when you come up with a good rhyme.

- Garrison Keillor

topic: Littles, Come Up, Rhyme, Firecracker

Now I wish she'd never broken any of her rules. I understood why she held to them so hard. Once you broke the first one, they all broke, one by one, like firecrackers exploding in your face in a parking lot on the Fourth of July.

- Janet Fitch

topic: July, Broken, Wish, Parking Lot, Oleanders

People weren't firecrackers who burst into the night sky with brilliance and glory, and a moment later faded away to nothing. Our souls had to be more lasting than that.

- Janette Rallison

source: Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.148, Penguin

topic: Night, Sky, People, Firecracker

May you eat an unfamiliar dessert in a strange land at least once every three years...

- Rob Brezsny

topic: Years, Land, May, Spray Paint, Gondolas

'Firecracker' was such a fun song to write and to perform.

- Josh Turner

topic: Song, Fun, Writing, Firecracker, Fun Song

I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of.

- Robert Plant

topic: Struggle, People, Too Much, Firecracker

"I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?" "Like I said," he said as I unlocked the car, "I'm not so sure that you should go by my example." "Why not?" "Because I have my regrets," he said. "Also, I'm a guy. And guys do different stuff." "Like ride bikes?" I said. "No," he replied. "Like have food fights. And break stuff. And set off firecrackers on people's front porches. And..." "Girls can't set off firecrackers on people's front porches?" "They can," he said... "But they're smart enough not to. That's the difference."

- Sarah Dessen

source: "Along for the Ride". Book by Sarah Dessen, June 16, 2009.

topic: Girl, Regret, Smart, Along For The Ride, Firecracker

These firecrackers outside and these lights outside cannot make you rejoice. They are only for children; for you, they are just a nuisance. But in your inner world there can be a continuity of lights, songs, joys. Always remember that society compensates you when it feels that the repressed may explode into a dangerous situation if it is not compensated. Society finds some way of allowing you to let out the repressed. But this is not true celebration, and it cannot be true.

- Rajneesh

topic: Song, Children, Dangerous Situations, Inner World, Firecracker

The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

- Brendan Gill

source: Brendan Gill (1975). “Here at the New Yorker”

topic: Gun, Events, Pages, Hissing, Popping

You’ve claimed me, little firecracker. You kicked a pair of two hundred pound men’s asses. I will never get over that. You kicked my whores out. Pete told me. You staked your claim on me, even before you realized I’d staked mine already.” He fists my hair and pulls me close to his lips. “I’m yours now … Even if I screw this up, I’ll still be your screw-up.

- Katy Evans

topic: Men, Hair, Two, Firecracker

but there was nothing I could do to dim the supernovae exploding inside my brain, an endless chain of intra cranial firecrackers

- John Green

topic: Brain, Chains, Endless, Firecracker

The people are maybe still as aware of the differences but they are more accepting of it that what we saw in the 70s and 80s, but the undercurrent is still there. There are maybe no racial slurs anymore, no firecrackers in mailboxes, the distinction is much more subtle.

- Celeste Ng

source: Source: brightestyoungthings.com

topic: Differences, People, Saws, Mailboxes, Firecracker

But, she knew, you didn’t have to marry your soulmate, and you didn’t even have to marry an Interesting. You didn’t always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting.

- Meg Wolitzer

topic: Want To Sleep, Firecracker

The problem is, you can't tell people these things. They'll think you're crazy. And I say to myself: What can I do with this life inside me? I'd like to give it ... to make a present of it ... to go up to people and tell them: You need to be joyful! You know? You have to play at being pirates ... to build cities of marble ... to laugh ... to set off firecrackers

- Roberto Arlt

topic: Crazy, Thinking, Play, Firecracker

I'm attracted to a lot of hot guys. If Chris Hemsworth were here, I'd light him up like a firecracker with how fast I'd jump on him.

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Light, Guy, Hot, Firecracker, Hot Guy

The outsiders have become kings and queens of the castle. It is a whole lot easier to sit outside the tent and throw firecrackers inside; it is much, much harder to sit inside the tent and govern not only your enemies, but your close friends as well.

- Hal Rothman

source: Hal Rothman (2007). “Playing the Odds: Las Vegas and the Modern West”, p.135, UNM Press

topic: Queens, Kings, Enemy, Kings And Queens, Firecracker

I had no idea what effect something blockbustering would have. To me, it was just a job that I was trying to do the best I could. We had shot the first five shows before it went on the air. Then, it was this firecracker hit, and people were recognizing me, so it was just nuts. It was overwhelming, insane, wonderful and scary all at the same time. It's really peculiar that people see you on television and then think they have a personal relationship with you. So, they want to touch you, and grab you, and sit down and have lunch with you. It's strange, and you never get used to that.

- Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

source: Source: aalbc.com

topic: Jobs, Thinking, Air, Firecracker

Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks.

- Hilarie Burton

source: FaceBook post by Hilarie Burton from Mar 03, 2016

topic: Dog, Holiday, Keys, Low Key, Firecracker

My dog does have his failings, of course. He's afraid of firecrackers and hides in the clothes closet whenever we run the vacuum cleaner, but, unlike me he's not afraid of what other people think of him or anxious about his public image.

- Gary A. Kowalski

source: Gary Kowalski (2007). “The Souls of Animals”, p.15, New World Library

topic: Friendship, Running, Dog, Firecracker, Public Image

Though a good cop, Luc Claudel has the patience of a firecracker, the sensitivity of Vlad the Impaler, and a persistent skepticism as to the value of forensic anthropology. Snappy dresser, though.

- Kathy Reichs

topic: Cop, Skepticism, Sensitivity, Firecracker, Forensics

If you look at the statistics of fratricide or intra-sibling homicide, it's extremely rare. And look at Burke [Ramsey] and JonBenet at the time of her murder. She was the powerhouse, the firecracker; she's the dominant one, not him. I just don't see it. And as I recall, John Ramsey passed a lie detector test. I can unequivocally say that Burke is not the killer nor do I think John Ramsey is the killer. Let's leave it there.

- Nancy Grace

source: Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

topic: Lying, Sibling, Thinking, Homicide, Firecracker

The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.

- Lin Yutang

topic: People, Chinese, Grandfather, Inventiveness, Firecracker

Below -60° cold will find the last microscopic touch of oil in an instrument and stop it dead. If there is the slightest breeze, you can hear your breath freeze as it floats away, making a sound like that of Chinese firecrackers. As does the morning dew, rime coats every exposed object. And if you work too hard and breathe too deeply, your lungs will sometimes feel as if they were on fire.

- Richard E. Byrd

source: Richard E. Byrd (2003). “Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure”, p.77, Island Press

topic: Morning, Fire, Oil, Morning Dew, Firecracker

I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.

- Ron Kovic

source: Ron Kovic (2016). “Born on the Fourth of July: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.13, Akashic Books

topic: Memorial Day, Home, Yankees, Dandy, Firecracker

You think you need me, little firecracker?” The gruff question travels all the way through me, and I have to press my thighs together to stop the tremor in me. “Baby, the way you need me can only barely cover half of the way I need you.” The unexpected sadness in his voice yanks my gaze back to his.

- Katy Evans

topic: Baby, Sadness, Thinking, Firecracker