There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

- Alan Hovhaness

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

- Al Smith

I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

- Cory Monteith

I don't want everybody to see exactly where I live, what my sofa or my fireplace looks like.

- Marilyn Monroe

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

- Mason Cooley

When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.

- Richard M. Nixon