Fuse Quotes

• A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!

  Homer Hickam

  Light, Rockets

  Homer Hickam (1999). “Rocket Boys”, p.120, Dell

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• One man puts the fire out, the other lights the fuse.

  Steve Winwood

  Men, Fire, Light

  Song: Split Decision, Album: Back in the High Life

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• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

  Dylan Thomas

  Flower, Color, Age

  "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)

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• It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

  Chaim Potok

  Culture, Impossible, Antagonism

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• The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.

  Ed Koch

  Success, Graduation, Education

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• Come on, come on, and there'll be no turning back, You were only killing time and it can kill you right back, Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse, You got nothing to do and even less to lose...

  Jim Steinman

  Time, Killing, No Turning Back

  "Song: Out Of The Frying Pan (And Into The Fire)". September 14, 1993.

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• If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.

  Frank Bruno

  Athlete, Mind, Balanced

  "Q: Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned? A: Nah, I'm not that brave or clever. I wouldn't know how to tie a rope, know what I mean?". www.theguardian.com. October 23, 2005.

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• Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.

  Arlene Croce

  Dance, Eye, Mind

  Arlene Croce (1977). “Afterimages”

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• Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Literature, Appearance, Boxes

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• I want to make hip-hop that can use guitars and soul and jazz and just fuse it all together. And I want to make this whole new sound that's going to shock the world. Unfortunately, the masses didn't receive it.

  Will Ferrell

  Guitar, Hip Hop, Soul

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Spiritual, Ideas, Profound

  Daisaku, Ikeda (1982). “Life: An Enigma, a Precious Jewel”, Kodansha America

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• Long memory, short fuse, big revenge.

  Karen Traviss

  Memories, Revenge, Long

  Karen Traviss (2011). “Order 66: Star Wars Legends (Republic Commando): A Republic Commando Novel”, p.405, Del Rey

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• I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.

  Mike O'Malley

  Car, Computer, Tire

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• It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.

  Terry Pratchett

  Hands, Long, Mad

  "Soul Music". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind a slight tincture, but a thorough and perfect dye. And if we perceive no evident change and improvement, it would be better to leave it alone; learning is a dangerous weapon, and apt to wound its master if it be wielded by a feeble hand, and by one not well acquainted with its use.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Learning, Hands, Giving

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• The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

  James Joyce

  Voice, Space, Silence

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• The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

  Emily Dickinson

  Carpe Diem, Imagination Creativity, Possibility

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.662, Harvard University Press

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• Have you ever had the sensation of looking at someone for the first time and ever so quickly the past and future seem to fuse ? Does that not mean something ? That we felt so much, so deeply, before even speaking?

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Dream, Mean

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• I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

  Alicia Keys

  Ideas, Giving, Perception

  "Soul sister number one". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2004.

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• 'Light fuse and get away' may work for a Roman candle, but not so much for the wrath of a woman scorned.

  Jeph Jacques

  Love, Wrath, Light

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• I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Dad, Hard Work, Home

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• What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.

  Ursula Hegi

  Rivers, Flow, Brokenness

  Ursula Hegi (2011). “Ursula Hegi The Burgdorf Cycle Boxed Set: Floating in My Mother's Palm, Stones from the River, The Vision of Emma Blau. Children and Fire”, p.675, Simon and Schuster

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• I think very few people are completely normal really, deep down in their private lives. It all depends on a combination of circumstances. If all the various cosmic thingummys fuse at the same moment, and the right spark is struck, there's no knowing what one mightn't do.

  Laurie R. King

  Thinking, Knowing, People

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• He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.

  John Bellairs

  Men, Dwarves, Littles

  John Bellairs, Edward Gorey, Mercer Mayer (1998). “The best of John Bellairs”

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• People become so deeply attached to the sound of one period that they blow a fuse when you move on. I've heard people complain bitterly about recordings they haven't even heard.

  Elvis Costello

  Moving, Blow, People

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