{"quotes":[{"text":"Financial crises are like fireworks: they illuminate the sky even as they go pop.","author":"James Buchan","tags":["sky","financial","fireworks "],"id":9979,"author_id":"James+Buchan"},{"text":"The word is my weapon. FIRE!","author":"Ljupka Cvetanova","tags":["aphorism","fight","fire","fireworks","gun","quote","rifle","saying","soldier-archetype","soldier-home-from-war","soldiers","terr","war","warfare","warfare-prayers","weapon","weapons","weapons-of-mass-destruction","word","word-of-god","wordplay","words-have-power","words-of-wisdom","words-to-inspire-you","words-to-live-by"],"id":19614,"author_id":"Ljupka+Cvetanova"},{"text":"Life isn't always about fireworks. Your fireworks will come, Sarah. And they'll fizzle out just as fast. Life's an experience, not a destination. All of us have the same destination, but not one of us has an identical experience. You'll find someone who will be there when the fireworks fizzle out and the sky turns black and love you just the same. That’s the one to hold onto.","author":"Marilyn Grey","tags":["fireworks","hopeless-romantic","love","true-love"],"id":65744,"author_id":"Marilyn+Grey"},{"text":"Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards against tinsel thread and garlands of metallic filaments that disappear underneath the other ornaments and finery.Shadows follow, joyful, laughing sprites.The tree is rich with potential w.","author":"Vera Nazarian","tags":["christmas","december","fireworks","holiday","lights","tree","winter"],"id":65875,"author_id":"Vera+Nazarian"},{"text":"I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.","author":"Neil Armstrong","tags":["daily","fireworks","like "],"id":83947,"author_id":"Neil+Armstrong"},{"text":"...[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.","author":"Jan Struther","tags":["art","beauty","fireworks"],"id":114498,"author_id":"Jan+Struther"},{"text":"The fireworks went on for nearly half an hour, great pulsing strobes, fiery dandelions and starbursts of light brightening both sky and water. It was hard to tell which was reality and which was reflection, as if there were two displays, above and below, going on simultaneously—one in space-time, mused Max, and the other in time-space.","author":"Sol Luckman","tags":["celebration","dewey-larson","fireworks","florida","lights","mirror","mirroring","new-year-s-eve","ocean","parallel-realities","parallel-universe","physics","reciprocal-system","sciencce-fiction","space-time","time-space"],"id":128963,"author_id":"Sol+Luckman"},{"text":"A tired man lay down his headin a dusty room so dim,and for so long his wife did shakeand yell to waken him.Meanwhile his thoughts, his dreams, did stirof sandy, red bullfights,of powder-blasts in the airand carnival delights.Yet still his wife was in despairin a dusty room so dim,for she knew death was a whorenot far from tempting him.","author":"Roman Payne","tags":["bull-fighters","bull-fights","bulls","carnaval","carnival","carnivals","death","death-dream","despair","dreaming","dying","dying-at-home","fireworks","husband-and-wife","husband-and-wife-relationship","poetry","torredor","whore","whores"],"id":154838,"author_id":"Roman+Payne"},{"text":"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?","author":"Anton Chekhov","tags":["boredom","entertainment","fireworks"],"id":157965,"author_id":"Anton+Chekhov"},{"text":"Every reader wants the same thing: to open the cover of a book and watch the words explode like fireworks off the page.","author":"Kim Lehman","tags":["books","fireworks","readers","reading","reading-books","writing"],"id":161021,"author_id":"Kim+Lehman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}