Quotes About Ignition

The firemen said there were little fires everywhere," Lexie said. "Multiple points of origin.

Fred had trocharised a bloated cow and the farmer had been so impressed by the pent up gas hissing from the abdomen that Fred had got carried away and applied his cigarette lighter to the canula. A roaring sheet of flame had swept on to some straw bales and burned the byre to the ground.

CHAPTER 36 "Our brightest blazes are often kindled by unexpected sparks." —Isaiah

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

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

Okay that's it. Now I'm torching this. I just need to score a match.

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

You're about as weak as a match. Carol held it burning for a moment after she lighted her cigarette. But given the right conditions, you could burn a house down, couldn't you?

master switches and both magnetos

The sparks he made with just flint were not usually long-lived enough to make fire, anyway.

I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work - in fact, very hard work - mixed with very heavy doses of patience.

their main role is that of a catalyst, not a director. They make it possible for the magic to happen.

Hey if there is a fire, you have to throw gas on it.

I've lit a fire on the mountain opposite yours

I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?

He's flint, you're tinder.

He's flint, you're tinder.

inflammable.

Good," he said softly. "Set the world afire. Just let me hand you the matches.

I pressed the ignition button and the engine came to life. Our cars have special mufflers to deaden the exhaust sound but there's nothing you can do about a starter. Carter

a companion had seemed unnecessary fuel when her body still burned at the core, waiting to ignite. But now, with the wind blowing icicles through her [Kit] veins, it felt like she, too, was in the grave. All her nuclear energy had been snuffed like a match between the night's icy fingers.

And then he raised the welder to his face and flicked the switch.

Solar-sized star formation requires extremely cool temperatures—tens of kelvins. Overly high temperature gas never gets sufficiently concentrated to ignite nuclear burning.