Sparks Quotes - Page 10

• When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Adversity, Men, Wind

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “Three Men in a Boat: (To Say Nothing of the Dog)”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• There was one bursting now, a delicate constellation of many-coloured stars which drifted down and lingered in the still air.... The final rocket went up, a really large one, a piece of reckless extravagance. Its sibilant uprush was impressive, dragonlike; it soared twice as high as any they had had before.... The sparks from the rocket came pouring down the sky in a slow golden cascade, vanishing one by one into a lake of darkness.

  Jan Struther

  Stars, Lakes, Air

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• It happened to me just this year with a beautiful boy I started hanging out with. Call me a hormonal teenager if you want, but evidently I haven’t grown out of this experience. His name, his voice, his face, his laugh - anything was enough to make my heart start beating faster. It’s the spark.

  Stephen Lovegrove

  Beautiful, Teenager, Heart

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• A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

  Elvis Presley

  Relationship, Heart, Fighting

  Song: A Little Less Conversation

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• I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Cousin, Imagination

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• Let it all out. If only I could. Letting it all out would involve me exploding like a firework, a beautiful riot of rainbow sparks bouncing around the car and lighting up the entire lot.

  Nick Burd

  Beautiful, Rainbow, Car

  Nick Burd (2009). “The Vast Fields of Ordinary”, p.87, Penguin

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• Three of the four elements are shared by all creatures, but fire was a gift to humans alone. Smoking cigarettes is as intimate as we can become with fire without immediate excruciation. Every smoker is an embodiment of Prometheus, stealing fire from the gods and bringing it on back home. We smoke to capture the power of the sun, to pacify Hell, to identify with the primordial spark, to feed on the marrow of the volcano. It’s not the tobacco we’re after but the fire. When we smoke, we are performing a version of the fire dance, a ritual as ancient as lightning.

  Tom Robbins

  Home, Fire, Volcanoes

  "Still Life with Woodpecker". Book by Tom Robbins, 1980.

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• But, if you think that by hanging us, you can stamp out the labor movement - the movement from which the downtrodden millions, the millions who toil and live in want and misery - the wage slaves - expect salvation - if this is your opinion, then hang us! Here you will tread upon a spark, but there, and there, and behind you and in front of you, and everywhere, flames will blaze up. It is a subterranean fire. You cannot put it out.

  August Spies

  Work, Thinking, Flames

  Address of August Spies. "The Accused the Accusers: Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court", www.chicagohistoryresources.org. 1886.

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• We all have weak moments, moments where we lose faith, but it's our flaws, our weaknesses that make us human. Science now performs miracles like the gods of old, creating life from blood cells or bacteria, or a spark of metal. But they're perfect creatures and in that way they couldn't be less human. There are things machines will never do, they cannot possess faith, they cannot commune with God. They cannot appreciate beauty, they cannot create art. If they ever learn these things, they won't have to destroy us, they'll be us.

  Sarah Connor

  Art, Appreciate Beauty, Creating Life

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• Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

  Haile Selassie

  Effort, Demand, Might

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds to explore and challenges to tackle, the possibilities are endless. Music education should not be a privilege for a lucky few, it should be a part of every child's world of possiblity.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Passion, Imagination

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• Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

  R. D. Laing

  Family, Spiritual, Baby

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• When we are old and these rejoicing veins
  Are frosty channels to a muted stream,
  And out of all our burning there remains
  No feeblest spark to fire us, even in dream,
  This be our solace: that it was not said
  When we were young and warm and in our prime,
  Upon our couch we lay as lie the dead,
  Sleeping away the unreturning time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Selected Poems”

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• You’ve got to be crazy! It’s too late to be sane, too late. You’ve got to go full tilt bozo... ‘Cause you’re only given a little spark of madness... and if you lose that, you’re nothing

  Robin Williams

  Crazy, Too Late, Tilt

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• The saddest part of a broken heart Isn't the ending so much as the start The tragedy starts from the very first spark Losing your mind for the sake of your heart

  Raymond E. Feist

  Heart, Broken, Mind

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  In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.

  Galileo Galilei

  Men, Tiny, Opinion

  "Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo". Book by Stillman Drake (p. 134 - 135), 1957.

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• I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

  Tupac Shakur

  Life, Music, Science

  "Tupac: Resurrection". Documentary, January 22, 2003.

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• The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when we see in the storm-clouds as it were, the veins and ore-beds of it? I imagine it is equally abundant in winter, and more equable and better tempered. Who ever breasted a snowstorm without being excited and exhilarated, as if this meteor had come charged with latent auroræ of the North, as doubtless it has? It is like being pelted with sparks from a battery.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, Thinking

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• A woman once told me that she did not feel the need to reach out to those around her because she prayed every day. Surely, this was enough. But a prayer is about our relationship to God; a blessing is about our relationship to the spark of God in one another. God may not need our attention as badly as the person next to us on the bus or behind us in line in the supermarket. Everyone in the world matters, and so do their blessings. When we bless others, we offer them refuge from an indifferent world.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Prayer, Blessing, Community

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• Being a nerd, which is to say going to far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.

  Sarah Vowell

  Caring, Nerd, Ulysses's Grant

  Sarah Vowell (2003). “The Partly Cloudy Patriot”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Gone, Unjust

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.181, Ravenio Books

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• I find it very fascinating that one person or a group of people can get together as a choir and come up with a song that ends up inspiring people to create emotions, love and togetherness. Communication, which comes from this idea that sparks off of humanity and becomes something that is cherished and loved by the people, is very fascinating to me.

  Damian Marley

  Song, Communication, Ideas

  "Lollapalooza 2011: Q&A with Damian Marley". Interview with Victoria Rodriguez, www.usatoday.com. August 3, 2011.

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• The night crackled ... Everything had turned to static electricity in the heat. I combed my hair to watch the sparks fly from the ends.

  Janet Fitch

  Night, Hair, Watches

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.14, Hachette UK

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• I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of projects and places that are of interest to me.

  Roman Coppola

  Thinking, Play, Directors

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have great chemistry outside of work. It's just something that sparks on screen or doesn't.

  Tricia Helfer

  Mean, Thinking, Chemistry

  "Tricia Helfer Interview DARK BLUE Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 3, 2010.

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