David Ogilvy Quotes

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

What we need as much as money is consensus about how we live [with fire] in that countryside [prone to forest fires] or at least agreement about how to decide…. More than 72,000 communities are at risk and only 20% have a plan for protection.

They have under invested in fire for so long that the catch up costs seem staggering. The traditional inclination is to rely on emergency interventions rather than systemic reforms.

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

When the house is on fire, don't tell me what your spiritual gift is. Just grab a hose and put out the fire.

I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster.

The only unitasker allowed in my kitchen is a fire extinguisher.

Walter Plinge said: "You know she asked me a very silly question Mrs Ogg! It was a silly question any fool knows the answer!" "Oh, yes," said Nanny. "About houses on fire, I expect..." "Yes! What would I take out of our house if it was on fire!" "I expect you were a good boy and said you'd take your mum," said Nanny. "No! My mum would take herself!" "What would you take out then, Walter?" Nanny said. "The fire!

This is the point in the show where we say, 'Oh, what else do we have in the van that's flammable?'

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

It's not a party until the fire department shows up.

Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

It is your concern when your neighbor's wall is on fire.

When there is an accident involving fire, in most cases death is caused by the inhalation of the toxic smoke. What we need is air to go to a driver for 45 seconds. I'm surprised that this is not done, and I would make it compulsory.

You want to put the fire out first and then worry about the fire code.

I did mostly good things, except light things on fire.

Had I been in Toronto, I would certainly have been killed in this attack. In the room where I normally sleep, the flames and the smoke and the soot is such that the gases would have killed me.

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

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

My colleagues, we're here to smoke the little bugger out.

Every fire hydrant in the country will be concerned.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

When your house is on fire—that is not the time to talk