Most startups flame out or just muddle along. Your chances of spotting a unicorn, pre-horn, are incalculably small. But if, knowing that, you still want to toss aside your cushy job, at least listen to corporate vets who have made the transition.

This sort of encouragement is vital for any writer. And lastly the publication of Touching the Flame, which was on hold for two years and went through a few publishers before finding a stable home.

I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.

I'm La Flame at all times. That, at times, can be bad, at times can be good.

Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

I have never in my career embarked on a journey towards controversy. I have never deliberately set a flame.

Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.

If you look historically at the draft at quarterbacks in the top 10, about half of them flame out very quickly.

When I play under bright lights on TV, the reflection off the dart barrel could be distracting. It's not high-tech stuff but I use the flame from the gas cooker at home to blacken the metal and dull them.

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

The best way to make a steak is grilled over an open flame or pan sauteed in a cast iron skillet.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

You could see the flames and the outer skin of the spacecraft glowing; and burning, baseball-size chunks flying off behind us. It was an eerie feeling, like being a gnat inside a blowtorch flame.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

I'm the keeper of the flame for Whitney Houston. She was the greatest... and I don't want the world to forget that.