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Quotes About Spark

Remember this? You gave it to me for ensuring your trigger finger got reattached to your hand. You said it would remind me of that spark of decency inside me. I'm trying to do something decent now, Captain.
~ Eoin Colfer
At a level of about 18,000 parts per million (ppm), the RFHCO would start to melt. At 20,000 ppm, the fuel vapor could spontaneously combust, without any exposure to a spark or flame, just from the friction caused by the movement of air. Waving your hand through the fuel vapor, at that concentration, could ignite it. The
~ Eric Schlosser
And the attraction burns fire amongst us and the spark is lit. We humans just add fuel to the fire." Lucas whispered behind her.
~ Amber
Was this how a mutiny was sparked? In a moment of heedlessness, so that one became a stranger to the person one had been a moment before? Or was it the other way around? That this was when one recognized the stranger that one had always been to oneself; that all one's loyalties and beliefs had been misplaced?
~ Amitav Ghosh
Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
~ Anatole France
such a bitter taste in his mouth? He had become so accustomed to her feisty spirit and to the martial spark that flared in her eyes when she was ready to do battle, that this quiet surrender left him feeling more like a bullying lout than an officer deserving
~ Andrea Pickens
There are many different styles of, and approaches to, tap. My own leans towards a more intellectual view: tap dancing not just for the sake of entertainment but to educate and spark emotion.
~ Savion Glover
People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.
~ Rick Santelli
But the sparkle had come back to her eyes and a bit of the old ginger to her voice
~ L.M. Montgomery
Mysterious affair, electricity.
~ Samuel Beckett
I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.
~ Carl Sagan
Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.
~ Edmondo De Amicis
When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each one over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.
~ Zsa Zsa Gabor
Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry
~ Alan Moore
Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.
~ Alan Moore
Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.
~ John B. Tabb
They had such a good meet-cute," I croak.
~ Jenny Han
Flirting is the oil that lubricates the engine of ingenuity and wit
~ Jeremy Clarkson
It's funny how it only takes one thing to ruin your essence. One thing to burn the light out of your soul and dim the spark of life within you.
~ Jessica Hall
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is always astonishing how love can strike. No context is love-proof, no convention or commitment impervious. Even a lifestyle which is perfectly insulated, where the personality is controlled, all the days ordered and all actions in sequence, can to its own dismay find that an unexpected spark has landed; it begins to smolder until it is finally unquenchable. The force of Eros always brings disturbance; in the concealed terrain of the human heart Eros remains a light sleeper.
~ Esther Perel
The permanence and stability that we seek in our intimate connections can stifle their sexual spark, leading to what Mitchell calls "expressions of exuberant defiance,"3 otherwise known as affairs. Adulterers
~ Esther Perel
When I choose a role, I look for that spark that tells me it's going to work. Is the role fresh? What does it have for the actor in me? Those are the only things any actor should be concerned about, really.
~ Nivin Pauly