Camp Fire All-Nighter

Genius is eternal patience. - Michelangelo

Inspiration and genius - one and the same. - Victor Hugo

To see things in the seed, that is genius. - Lao-Tzu

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time. - Janet Flanner

Camping is something I've done all my life. - Stefanie Powers

Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. - Pablo Picasso

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society. - Joe Biden

Inspiration fires you up; motivation keeps you burning. - Stuart Aken

If someone's lying, are their pants really on fire? - Jerry Seinfeld

Words are only painted fire; a book is the fire itself. - Mark Twain

A genius can do readily what nobody else can do at all. - Herbert Spencer

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense. - Josh Billings

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. - Sean Connery

Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. - Unknown

In a well-ordered universe, camping would take place indoors. - Morgan Matson

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. - JRR Tolkien

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see and hits it. - Unknown

Marriage requires a special talent like acting. Monogamy requires genius. - Warren Beatty

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. - An Wang

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. - George Eliot

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice. - Ethel Merman

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. - Mark Twain

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein. - Joe Thiesmann

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. - Steven Wright

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water. - Unknown

This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. - Thomas Jefferson

The most beautiful thing in the world is, precisely, the conjunction of learning and inspiration. - Wanda Landowska

Inspiration comes unawares, from unaccountable sources that have nothing to do with planning or intelligence. - Maurice Chevalier

If you find yourself interesting, you're a bore.
But if you find me interesting, you're a genius. - David Foster

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel. - William Hazlitt

The twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust. - Igor Stravinsky

Doubt thou the stars are fire,
Doubt that the sun doth move,
Doubt truth to be a liar,
But never doubt I love. - William Shakespeare

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet. - Randy Pausch

You don't have to say everything to be a light. Sometimes a fire built on a hill will bring interested people to your campfire. - Shannon L. Alder

To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame. - Sandra L. Douglas

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. - George Carlin

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell