Sparks Quotes

He that blows the coals in quarrels he has nothing to do with has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. (Benjamin Franklin)
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks. View quote
Friedrich Engels
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. View quote
Golda Meir
A man without passion is only a latent force, only a possibility, like a stone waiting for the blow from the iron to give forth sparks. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon. View quote
David Brewster
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. View quote
Samuel Johnson
"Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete silence - their speech centres are destroyed - except for the crackle of sparks and the popping of singed flesh as they apply electrodes up and down the spine. White smoke of burning flesh hangs in the motionless air. A group of children have tied an idiot to a post with barbed wire and built a fire between his legs and stand watching with bestial curiosity as the flames lick his thighs. His flesh jerks in the fire with insect agony. View quote
William S. Burroughs
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. View quote
Clarice Lispector
The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the dark And we may lose everything in the wind But the Northern Lights are burning And they're giving off sparks. View quote
Jim Steinman
But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations. (Leo Burnett)
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home - only the millions of last moments... nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments. View quote
Thomas Pynchon
Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
We are sparks that must glow as brightly as possible. View quote
Asger Jorn
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards. View quote
Andrei Tarkovsky
They say that a good cook can ignite sparks by the way he kisses. The way I see, just because a guy can turn on the stove doesn't necessarily make him a good cook. View quote
Stefanie Powers
The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye... View quote
David Benioff
But there was something about you that made me think of sparks and motion. View quote
David Levithan
Choose now,' he spat, his eyes practically shooting sparks. 'Me or him.' 'Gosh, Fang, you romantic fool,' I said sarcastically. 'How incredibly sexist-pig of you. View quote
James Patterson
Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy. View quote
Luke Davies
But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture. (Raymond Carver)
All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person. View quote
Graham Chapman
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished, or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence. View quote
Edward Forbes
That one thing you do give up when you get married is that magic moment of meeting someone, and the sparks and the spontaneity. View quote
Katie Aselton
I'm a curious person. I pursue things based on what sparks my interest. I'm not thinking about what role I play. I don't have to be a movie director or this or that. I just want to be part of projects and places that are of interest to me. View quote
Roman Coppola