Sparks Quotes - Page 8

• There's a spark in you you've just gotta ignite the light and let it SHINE.

  Katy Perry

  Light, Shining, Ignite

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• See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.

  Richard Sibbes

  Flames, Tree, Littles

  Richard Sibbes, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE BRUISED REED”, Lulu.com

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• God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved.  If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do we not love God, in whom is all goodness?  All other things are but sparks of that fire, and drops of that sea.  If you see any good in the creature, remember there is much more in the Creator.  Leave therefore the streams, and go to the fountainhead of comfort.

  Richard Sibbes

  Fire, Sea, Comfort

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• Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds of propriety for our sakes, and throws herself unblushingly at our heads, we conclude it is either from a sudden and violent liking, or from extraordinary merit on our parts, either of which is enough to turn any man's head who has a single spark of gallantry or vanity in his composition.

  William Hazlitt

  Women, Vanity, Coquette

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• For your friends and family, you are always a champion, but for the media and sponsors, not until you show a spark. Making a champ is more important than celebrating one. I want to be there for youngsters and help them do their best.

  Gagan Narang

  Media, Champion, Important

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• I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.

  Lisa Gansky

  Art, Ideas, Imagination

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• Hasidism has a tradition that one of man's purposes is to assist God in the work of redemption by "hallowing" the things of creation. By a tremendous heave of his spirit, the devout man frees the divine sparks trapped in the mute things of time; he uplifts the forms and moments of creation, bearing them aloft into that rare air and hallowing fire in which all clays must shatter and burst. Keeping the subsoil world under trees in mind, in intelligence, is the least I can do.

  Annie Dillard

  Uplifting, Men, Fire

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.96, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Being a nerd, which is to say going too 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 . . . At fifteen, I couldn't say two words about the weather or how I was doing, but I could come up with a paragraph or two about the album Charlie Parker with Strings. In high school, I made the first real friends I ever had because one of them came up to me at lunch and started talking about the Cure.

  Sarah Vowell

  Real, School, Caring

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from Aug 29, 2015

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• That beautiful sister of mine was an overwhelming and volatile mixture. One had the feeling that she'd been shot from a canon and showered her sparks over an incredulous world with no thought or care where they fell, a carbon copy of father. She was like some silvery comet who streaked through life with daring speed, the wellspring of which was an inner confidence that I deeply admired. At times, particularly in childhood, I was intimidated by her but she dictated from an aura of affection for me that was never threatening.

  Joan Bennett

  Beautiful, Father, Childhood

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• When you get to speak Irish, you become more at one with yourself, you kind of have a spark when you use it, and I think it's a great dialect.

  Glenn Quinn

  Thinking, Use, Dialect

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Writing, Years, Lost Friendship

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• In an ideal world we would all learn in childhood to love ourselves. We would grow, being secure in our worth and value, spreading love wherever we went, letting our light shine. If we did not learn self-love in our youth, there is still hope. The light of love is always in us, no matter how cold the flame. It is always present, waiting for the spark to ignite, waiting for the heart to awaken and call us back to the first memory of being the life force inside a dark place waiting to be born - waiting to see the light.

  Bell Hooks

  Memories, Heart, Dark

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• Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire.

  Anatole France

  Teaching, Fire, Vanity

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• I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

  Carl Sagan

  Successful, Science, Doe

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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• This is not the age of pamphleteers. It is the age of the engineers. The spark-gap is mightier than the pen. Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully and quote aptly.

  Lancelot Hogben

  Men, Age, Democracy

  Science for the Citizen (1938) epilogue

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• You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, they have strong qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.

  Henry Ford

  Strong, Stars, Eye

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• The wind flew. God told to wind to condense itself and out of the flurry came the horse. But with the spark of sprit the horse flew by the wind itself.

  Marguerite Henry

  Horse, Wind, Flew

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• Citizen service is the very American idea that we meet our challenges not as isolated individuals but as members of a true community, with all of us working together. Our mission is nothing less than to spark a renewed sense of obligation, a new sense of duty, a new season of service.

  William J. Clinton

  Ideas, Volunteer, Community

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• I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark.

  Chris Hillman

  Writing, Thinking, Editing

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• No matter what you do, it can't be perfect. I told Jack White, 'If I'd 'a sung that song more'n twice, it might of sounded better.' He said, 'Well, it might not of. You might have took the spark out of it.' I don't know if he has a point or not. We'll find out.

  Loretta Lynn

  Song, White, Perfect

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• It might be a meaningless moment, but those sparks that ignite the song.... It's mystical maybe, those magic moments. And to make music for a living, to perform these songs over and over, you have to safeguard those sparks. If you can do that, they'll last a lot longer.

  M. Ward

  Song, Writing, Magic Moments

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• I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

  Gene Tierney

  Birthday, Hollywood, Contracts

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• Leave the fireworks for those who cast no spark of their own.

  Karen Abbott

  Fireworks, Casts

  Karen Abbott (2007). “Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul”, p.18, Random House

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• If you just tell the story of what the storys about, then it sparks curiosity, but I think it also arouses suspicion, as you say, that it could be overly sentimental. But it so isnt. And I think it was all about doing the inner work and then underplaying everything.

  Gerard Butler

  Thinking, Curiosity, Stories

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• I never struggled with trying to figure out what it was I wanted to do or what made the sparks go for me.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Trying, Figures, Made

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