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Sparks Quotes - Page 7

The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.

Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.235, W. W. Norton & Company

The initial spark usually has something to do with panic -- I'm due to turn in a story to a workshop or an editor. It's a terrible working method.

"Kelly Link, Words by Flashlight". Interview with Lauren McLaughlin, www.sensesfive.com. June 7, 2006.

American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.

"Clinton: Iraq Tactics 'Working. We’re Just Years Too Late...'". Hillary Clinton’s remarks to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Missouri, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 20, 2007.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

Francis Bacon (1778). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: In Five Volumes”, p.465

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation