Famous quotes containing the words selective, fire and/or weapons:
“The selective memory isn’t selective enough.”
—Blake Morrison (b. 1950)
“You can much sooner dry you by such a fire as you can make in the woods than in anybody’s kitchen, the fireplace is so much larger, and wood so much more abundant.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91)