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Quotes About Spark

Everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, deep in the night, when we were winging on the jungle gym and showers of sparks were flying out of our mouths, I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.
~ Donna Tartt
We looked at each other, for a long strange moment that I've never forgotten, actually, like two animals meeting at twilight, during which some clear, personable spark seemed to fly up through his eyes and I saw the creature he really was—and he, I believe, saw me. For an instant we were wired together and humming, like two engines on the same circuit.
~ Donna Tartt
Eravamo seminatori solerti, che accendevano la scintilla della guerra contro gli usurpatori della gloria di Dio, i pensatori del Suo popolo.
~ Unknown
Evaluation eliminates frustration. We should also evaluate unrealistic expectations. Unrealistic expectations become unmet expectations. And unmet expectations are like kindling wood-it only takes but a spark of frustration to set them ablaze and burn those involved.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Left to herself, the serpent now began To change; her elfin blood in madness ran, Her mouth foam'd, and the grass, therewith besprent, Wither'd at dew so sweet and virulent; Her eyes in torture fix'd, and anguish drear, 150 Hot, glaz'd, and wide, with lid-lashes all sear, Flash'd phosphor and sharp sparks
~ John Keats
Each book first begins with a little idea.
~ Dick Bruna
Zeal was like gas, most dangerous when you could not see it. The wrong spark could light it at any time.
~ Frances Hardinge
Love works in magical ways but never be fooled by the promise of forever. There will come a time when the spark will die and when that times comes, we must learn to let go no matter how painful.
~ Unknown
his scorn was like a spark falling on dry tinder.
~ Madeline Miller
Blah, blah, suck-all-the-fun-out-of-the-room talk
~ Mandy M. Roth
In the world today ideals live but a moment in their purity, before the gathering hosts of darkness snuff out the gleaming spark. The Mystery School, however, remains unmoved. It does not bring light to man, man must bring his light to it.
~ Unknown
I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.
~ John Steinbeck
The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.
~ John Steinbeck
One word set off others like a string of firecrackers.
~ John Steinbeck
A single moment can spark a lifetime of memories.
~ Unknown
Life is like a firework. You gotta ignite the fuse and make it beautiful.
~ Unknown
Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.
~ Unknown
But when a belief vanishes, there survives it—more and more vigorously so as to cloak the absence of the power, now lost to us, of imparting reality to new things—a fetishistic attachment to the old things which it did once animate, as if it was in them and not in ourselves that the divine spark resided, and as if our present incredulity had a contingent cause—the death of the gods.
~ Marcel Proust
Only rebellion flashes like lightning.
~ Marge Piercy
Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occurring without taking out the magic spark plug, the genius of invention that ignited the adventure in the first place.
~ Marianne Wiggins
Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.
~ Marie Curie
An evil spark flared in his eyes. "Trade: raccoon for some answers.
~ Unknown
No, he needed to mould the context, to shape his environment in a way that would stimulate and spark, that would challenge and charge him.
~ Mark Billingham
If you can surprise your customer with something more than baseline satisfaction, you'll spark the kind of emotion that leads to loyalty.
~ Marty Neumeier