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Quotes About Fuse

Picture, if you will, Tommy, the fuse of a cannon. Now, when one touches a flame to a fuse, what happens? It's consumed bit...' He stepped toward her, so close that his boot toes nearly touched the toes of her slippers. She sucked in a breath. But she stood her ground when his knees brushed hers. '...by bit...' His voice had gone perilously soft. '...by bit. Until...' His breath fluttered her hair. His mouth was next to her ear now. 'Boom.
~ Julie Anne Long
On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse.
~ Milton Berle
I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
~ Princess Eugenie of York
Passion is the fuel; Inspiration the fuse, and learning the catalyst
~ Jim Meehan
I give you back your heart. I give you permission – for the fuse inside her, throbbing angrily in the dirt, for the bitch in her and the burying of her wound – for the burying of her small red wound alive – for the pale flickering flare under her ribs, for the drunken sailor who waits in her left pulse
~ Anne Sexton
Love drips & gathers, but the fallen blood Shall calm her sores..." -Thomas, The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
~ Dylan Thomas
She fell suddenly and deeply asleep. A reaction to the shock, she thought later. It was as if a fuse had blown. She needed to escape.
~ Ann Cleeves
To ADCORPORATE  (ADCO'RPORATE)   v.a.[from ad and corpus.]To unite one body with another; more usually wrote accorporate; which see.
~ Samuel Johnson
Fusion food as a concept is kind of trying to quite consciously fuse things that are sometimes quite contradictory, sometimes quite far apart, to see if they'd work.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Trump doesn't have a plan. There's a screw loose, and he's got a really short fuse. Do you really want the leader of the free world with his finger on the button to have a short fuse?
~ Michael Kelly
If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
~ Frank Bruno
Dionysus is the life-spirit of all green vegetation—ivy, pine tree and especially the vine; he is, in Dylan Thomas' phrase, "the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
~ Sophocles
But by making the last-minute decision to store most of the fuel on the deck and the TNT and picric acid below, the crew had unwittingly constructed the perfect bomb, with the easy-to-light fuse on top, and the most explosive materials trapped in the hold below.
~ John U. Bacon
Providence has a curious way of letting two lives run along, each apparently independent of the other. Parallel lines they seem, hopeless of meeting. Converging lines really, destined, through long ages, by every deed that has been done to meet as a certain point and there fuse.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
He has no clue that I have the patience of a saint. At least that's what Carlos says, although that isn't saying much, considering his fuse is about as short as an eyelash.
~ Simone Elkeles
I don't wanna change the world, I just wanna leave it colder.. Light the fuse and burn it up, Take the path that leads to nowhere..
~ Breaking Benjamin
Instinct and study, love and hate; Audacity-reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's heart, To wrestle with the angel -- Art.
~ Herman Melville
The fuse is lit. You can run all you want to but you leave a trail of gunpowder in your wake. There's going to be a reckoning eventually.
~ Colleen Houck
You're certainly the only bright spark in my life right now," he conceded. "In a 'light fuse, dive for cover' kind of way.
~ Karina Bliss
Our main character is Klem Ristovych, the most senior detective in the MCPD. Klem's a dinosaur, the oldest cop working the Fuse, and nobody can believe she hasn't retired yet. Hell, she can hardly believe it herself. But what else is she going to do? Sit at home and watch soap operas all day? She'd throw herself out of an airlock first.
~ Antony Johnston
Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Fear is the gunpowder and hatred is the fuse. Dogma, the final ingredient, is only a lighted match.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
coalesce'…" "Three's a
~ Carla Neggers
Yelling was like a bomb in the corner: you saw it, watched the fuse burn, and you knew when it would explode and you needed to run for cover. Not speaking was a killer somewhere in your house with a gun when you were sleeping.
~ Kristin Hannah