Sparks Quotes - Page 17

• Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing a spark plug.

  William J. Clinton

  Book, Reading, Gay

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• Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Two, Giving

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• When I get home, I'm not the boss like I am at work - I slip into a more feminine role. I take everything off and put on my Stella McCartney silk robe. I'll put on a red lip or red nails, and it lifts my mood. Sexy underwear also gives you a spark.

  Miranda Kerr

  Sexy, Home, Giving

  "Miranda Kerr: ‘I collect underwear from my travels’", www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2013.

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• Our band is very polarizing. There are people who absolutely can't stand us, and people who absolutely can't live without us. I'd rather spark those kind of polar-opposite feelings than have people be indifferent.

  Ben Gibbard

  Opposites, People, Feelings

  "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.

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• Call me a flaming radical burning for attention, but my real intention is to spark a discussion of how we can peacefully transform our world. America, I offer myself to you as an alarm against Armageddon and a torch for liberty.

  Kathy Change

  Real, Our World, America

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• I did a song, "Court and Spark," for a Joni Mitchell tribute album that's yet to see the light of day. So she's someone I'd like to do something with, sure. I worked with the great guitar player Bill Frisell on Phantom Moon - that was fun. I'm such a fan; he's amazing.

  Duncan Sheik

  Song, Fun, Moon

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• I think you'll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.

  Tom Mison

  Thinking, Creating, Imagination

  Source: collider.com

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• The future is like smoke from a burning forest, waiting for the wind of specific events and personal courage to blow the sparks and embers of reality this way or that.

  Dan Simmons

  Blow, Reality, Wind

  "The Rise of Endymion". Book by Dan Simmons, published by Bantam Spectra, Chapter 25 (pp. 535-536), 1997.

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• The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.

  Francis Parkman

  Strong, Ambition, Passion

  Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”

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• I like the excitement you get at touching another human being when you're acting with them and then having a little spark and not knowing what is going to happen in between you.

  Julianne Moore

  Knowing, Touching, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Could Congress really do its work if it held its sessions by teleconferencing? Could the Supreme Court? Nothing can replace the spark of intelligence that travels from person to person at meetings.

  Ben Stein

  Congress, Court, Meetings

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• Romantic art is the fuel and the spark plug of a Man's soul. It's task is to set a soul on fire and never let it go out.

  Ayn Rand

  Art, Men, Fire

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• Consciousness is the inner spark or inner link in us, the golden link within us that connects our highest and most illumined part with our lowest and most unillumined part. Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heaven, Links, Earth

  Sri Chinmoy (2003). “Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy”, p.28, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Because if you don't know someone all that well, you react to their surface qualities, the superficial stereotypes-they throw off like sparks. But once you fight through the sparks and get to the person, you find just that, a person, a big jumble of likes, dislikes, fears, and desires.

  Dorothy West

  Fighting, Desire, Quality

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• There's an old poem by Neruda that I've always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says "love is so short, forgetting is so long." It's a line I've related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we're trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren't the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren't really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened, and then saw it slip away without any warning.

  Taylor Swift

  Stars, Moving, Love Is

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• Our audience holds us to an incredibly high standard of continuity and emotional authenticity. We don't toy with that, but oftentimes we write stories, in order to spark debate. We're very determined to always give the answer. We don't want to leave a lot of things open to debate, at the end of the day.

  Jeff Pinkner

  Writing, Emotional, Order

  Source: collider.com

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• Goal-getting matters. And writing down the brave acts and bold dreams you intend to accomplish will provide the spark to get them done.

  Robin Sharma

  Dream, Writing, Goal

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jan 28, 2013

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• A swing is like a car. You've got the fan belt, carburetor, pistons, spark plugs, fuel pump. If any part isn't working, the car doesn't run. Same way with hitting.

  Wade Boggs

  Running, Swings, Car

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• If you search within your heart, you will find something there that will make it possible for you to understand: a spark of disenchantment and discontent, which if fanned into flame will become a raging forest fire that will burn up the whole of the illusory world you are living in, thereby unveiling to your wondering eyes the kingdom that you have always lived in unsuspectingly.

  Anthony de Mello

  Heart, Eye, Fire

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “The Way to Love: Meditations for Life”, p.121, Image

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• In this, photography is the same thing as love. When my gaze, diving into the sea as my subject, converges with the act of photography, hot sparks fly at the point of intersection.

  Shomei Tomatsu

  Photography, Sea, Diving

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• I've never been able to develop a movie over several years, and keep coming back to it and adding to it. I get excited by the spark of an idea, and if I can't go make that, there's another idea that comes along that I get excited about. It has to happen quickly, in order for it to happen, at all.

  Joe Swanberg

  Ideas, Order, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Morning, Rain, Eye

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.97, DOSER Reads

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• I do know its important to keep the romantic spark alive in your marriage. But with four kids, sometimes it's enough just to keep yourself alive.

  Ray Romano

  Kids, Important, Alive

  Ray Romano (1999). “Everything and a Kite”, Bantam

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• I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Men, Mad

  Charles Spurgeon (2009). “Essential Works of Charles Spurgeon”, p.101, Barbour Publishing

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• Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Baby, Courage, Journey

  Cherie Carter-Scott (1999). “If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul”, p.104, Harmony

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