Sparks Quotes - Page 21

• Jamie Kilstein is amazing and I will be spreading the word. He has the spark that energized my conscience. We need more comedians kicking it hard the way he does every night

  Robin Williams

  Night, Kicking It, Comedian

  5 Copy quote

• If it's early in the game and the team's not doing well, I get frustrated when I don't get the ball, because I think I can spark the team and get the crowd into it.

  Randy Moss

  Team, Thinking, Games

  16 Copy quote

• It is only occasional that talent becomes genius - radiating sparks, brilliance, energy, and charismatic magnetism... such a talent was Janis Joplin.

  Clive Davis

  Energy, Genius, Talent

  6 Copy quote

• That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity.

  Katie Aselton

  Giving Up, Magic Moments, Meeting Someone

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Nature, Stars

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.59

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• The big fire has no right to despise the little spark!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Fire, Littles, Bigs

  4 Copy quote

• Poetry is a kind of gasp, and there it is, a spark on the page. Fiction, on the other hand, is like swamp fire.

  Joy Kogawa

  Fire, Hands, Fiction

  7 Copy quote

• If you look at me as a role model, I agree with it. If you look at me as an idol, I don't because an idol for me is someone that you want to replicate. You want to be them and I don't wish that on anyone to lose what they have personally, because that's when your spark is lost.

  Miley Cyrus

  Idols, Role Models, Wish

  5 Copy quote

• The reality is that there are half a billion kids in India, in villages, who have a pre-determined life. If they're very lucky and they're a gifted athlete, maybe they can compete for the Olympics, or maybe they can get into the military. But if you're not a gifted athlete, then you're going to end up working for your family and you're going to perpetuate what your family is. It's gotten to the point, in villages, where there's no hope. And the first spark of hope is when you ask yourself the question,"What gift did God give me that I can develop and use to better my life?"

  J. B. Bernstein

  Military, Kids, Athlete

  7 Copy quote

• Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

  Paul Russo

  Creating, Leaving, Genius

  10 Copy quote

• Crucial to how we feel is being aware of how we are feeling in the moment. The sine qua non of that is to realize that you are being emotional in the first place. The earlier you recognize an emotion, the more choice you will have in dealing with it. In Buddhist terms, it's recognizing the spark before the flame. In Western terms, it's trying to increase the gap between impulse and saying or doing something you might regret later.

  Paul Ekman

  Buddhist, Regret, Emotional

  28 Copy quote

• The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

  Kelly Link

  Editors, Panic, Stories

  "Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

  Bernard Bailyn

  Growing, Heat, Authority

  Bernard Bailyn (2012). “The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution”, p.305, Harvard University Press

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• A great teacher is not simply one who imparts knowledge to his students, but one who awakens their interest in it and makes them eager to pursue it for themselves. He is a spark plug, not a fuel pipe. The reason colleges exist is to bring students into contact with contagious personalities, for otherwise they might as well be correspondance schools.

  Edmund Ware Sinnott

  Teacher, School, College

  4 Copy quote

• Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

  Immanuel Kant

  Polytheism, Monotheism, Nations

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.363

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Horse, Eye, Air

  4 Copy quote

• I see this with experienced writers, too: They worry so much about the plot that they lose sight of the characters. They lose sight of why they are telling the story. They don't let the characters actually speak. Characters will start to dictate the story in sometimes surprising, emotional, and funny ways. If the writers are not open to those surprises, they're going to strangle the life, spark, or spirit out of their work.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Book, Character, Emotional

  4 Copy quote

• Sympathy wanting, all is wanting; its personal magnetism is the conductor of the sacred spark that lights our atoms, puts us m human communion, and gives us to company, conversation, and ourselves.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Sympathy, Light, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Light, Heaven, Growth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.365

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• when you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

  May Sinclair

  Thinking, Fire, Genius

  4 Copy quote

• An environment of carping and criticism is dangerous to your mental health, whereas those who support and encourage you bring out your true potential and spark your genius.

  Willard F. Harley

  Support, Criticism, Genius

  10 Copy quote

• In my mind I'ma fighter, my heart's a lighter, my soul is the fluid. My flow sparks it right up.

  Eminem

  Heart, Soul, Mind

  Song: No Apologies, Album: Eminem Presents: The Re-Up, 2006

  44 Copy quote

  Show source

• I often don't endorse what I tweet, rather I want to throw things about to spark conversation or controversy. What I think about something is not particularly important when talking to thousands of unknown strangers.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Talking, Important

  "What Would Twitter Do?". Interview with Sheila Heti, believermagblog.wordpress.com. August 15, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

  Britney Spears

  Song, Records, Process

  Source: www.cnn.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Intelligence is power; it is the flame behind the spark of intrigue. Find out all the facts and stamp out the fire. Demystify.

  Tobsha Learner

  Fire, Flames, Facts

  4 Copy quote