Quotes About Ignition

Conspiracies fascinate me. When I visited the Rozabal shrine in Srinagar before writing my first book, I remember thinking that the person enshrined there was no ordinary mortal. History is rife with mysteries, and that visit ignited a fire to unveil some of them.

Even the biggest blaze, though, has to start somewhere, with a tiny spark, or arsonists would be out of business.

you can't start a fire without a spark.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs kindling.

You know what burns me? Matches.

If you need to find out the kindling point of paper (451° F), don't call an academic, call the fire department.

What could he say in a single word, a few words, that would sear all their faces and wake them up?

Steal Captain Black's car," said Yossarian. "That's what I always do." "We can't steal anybody's car. Since you began stealing the nearest car every time you wanted one, nobody leaves the ignition on.

Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match,

Begin your writing, fiction or article, where the action begins. This action can be internal (e.g., an important insight or personal decision) or external (e.g., a murder or calamity). Begin too early, you lose your reader. Begin too late, you lose your story.

Things never burn when you want them to, they got out. You'd probably have had to strike match after match.

Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

To travel through the outer cosmos, one boards spaceship. The fiery combustion of the engines produces lift-off to propel the spacecraft beyond the pull of gravity and into the silent wonders of the outer space. To travel into the spiritual realms within, the spark of the Divine is ignited to propel our soul on the inner journey.

We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework, and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite.

Incidentally, I'm puzzled why, with so much oxygen about, thing didn't burst into flames all the time. Perhaps they did.

Incidentally, I'm puzzled why, with so much oxygen about, things didn't burst into flames all the time. Perhaps they did

the words were like gunpowder blasts, sparking me into thought and action.

If men refuse to be kindled, sparks can only burn themselves out, just as paper images and carriages burn out on the street during funerals.

One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

The unconsidered act of the poorest of men may fire the train that leads to the subterranean mine, and an empire be rent by the explosion.

Purpose directs passion and passion ignites purpose.

People need to make sure they have a good humor spark plug inside them that can be ignited at any moment when required.

People are like sticks of dynamite. The power is on the inside, but nothing happens until the fuse gets lit.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.