Mary Lambert

I came out when I was 17. I was in the church; I was crying every Sunday for about a year. I came to terms with the fact with this is who I was - I wasn't going to be able to be a different person. At 17, you feel like a freak already, and so to have that fire and brimstone against your attraction is just screwed up!

American Musician

John Glover

Brimstone was great. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a regular job, which made me quite happy. It was another really good experience and we were all so surprised when they pulled the plug on it.

American Actor

Jane Welsh Carlyle

They call me 'sweet,' and 'gentle'; and some of the men go the length of calling me 'endearing,' and I laugh in my sleeve and think, 'Oh, Lord! If you but knew what a brimstone of a creature I am behind all this beautiful amiability!

Scottish Writer

Megan Phelps-Roper

Westboro's fire and brimstone message was the air I breathed all my life. But after joining Twitter at the age of 23, I encountered people who challenged my beliefs and unearthed contradictions my blind faith had missed.

American Activist

Caroline Polachek

My stepfather is a baron. He has a castle in Belgium that's been in his family for hundreds and hundreds of years. It's not fancy; it's really sort of brimstone and dark. It's got a moat and a drawbridge.

Travis Kalanick

I'm a passionate entrepreneur. I'm like fire and brimstone sometimes. And so there are times when I'll go - I'll get too into the weeds and too into the debate, because I'm so passionate about it.

American Businessman

Harry Houdini

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance.

Hungarian Entertainer

Brimstone signifies divine wrath or punishment in religious texts.

Biblical Destruction

It's often used to evoke powerful, apocalyptic imagery beyond its literal meaning.

Apocalyptic Imagery

Brimstone can be metaphorical for something unwelcome or unpleasant.

Often Metaphoric

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Shereen El Feki: Pop...

 said I'm the last one Lord nobody else is standing for you nobody's declaring this message but the party didn't last long when the pastor's sermon started it was all Hellfire and brimstone

The Full Gospel...

 a leaf comes to life a brimstone the butter-colored fly that may have given all butterflies