Quotes about Fireproofing

Dalton Trumbo

I fought fire with oil.

William Whitelaw

The whitewashing of windows can provide very effective protection against fire resulting from the heat-flash from nuclear explosions.

Leaders of the nuclear powers were uttering nonsense like this to keep public fear of nuclear war to a minimum. See {618658} and {618657}.

Roger Bacon

For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Joan Didion

In Brentwood we had a big safe-deposit box to put manuscripts in if we left town during fire season. It was such a big box that we never bothered to clean it out.

Steve Hanke

Why is it so hard for the IMF and the U.S. government to understand that putting out the fire comes before fireproofing the building?

Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water.

Martin Scorsese

We cannot burn Mick Jagger. We want the effect, but we can't burn him.

John Lackland

No homes may use thatched roofs any more. They shall be replaced with tile roofs.

The Romans developed rounded tile roofs that were water and fireproof. They brought the technology to England, but it took a thousand years for the English to change from their traditional thatched roof. This ordinance pushed the change.

Fireproofing Quotes