Sparks Quotes - Page 18

• I had to learn what made Kim happy. I learned you have to take care of the spark in your eyes.

  Kim Alexis

  Eye, Care, Kim

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• When you find great songs, and somehow you get a spark in a little way, it can become brand new.

  Joe Nichols

  Song, Littles, Way

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• You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been lived but it is still all going on, in the mind for better and for worse.

  Penelope Lively

  Mind, Want, Comets

  Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• Though Snow White might triumph in the tale, she will undoubtedly acquire a mirror after she marries, matures, and has children, and as the mirror reflects her aging and loss of beauty, she will be confronted by a young girl whose innocence and youth will spark her envy and hatred and perhaps drive her to eliminate her “competition.” It appears as though there is a vicious cycle that entraps women up through today. Everything is played out under the male gaze.

  Jack Zipes

  Girl, Children, Loss

  Jack Zipes (2011). “The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films”, p.116, Routledge

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• I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked and it's paralyzing.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Thinking, Talking, People

  "Jada Pinkett Smith candid on family, projects". Interview with John Carucci, newsok.com. May 10, 2013.

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• The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA.

  Candace Parker

  Moving, Tradition, Rich

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• Contradictions if well understood and managed can spark off the fires of invention. Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.

  Chinua Achebe

  Creativity, Fire, Orthodoxy

  Chinua Achebe (1988). “Anthills of the Savannah”, p.100, Heinemann

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• Oft has it been my lot to mark A proud, conceited, talking spark.

  James Merrick

  Conceited, Talking, Proud

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• Health care's complicated, can be misrepresented, it's personal, it can spark fear, it's expensive, and the people who have got the money want to keep it.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Care, Want

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how the resistance of blacks to that enslavement has been the spark plug for so many important developments.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Country, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God.

  Deepak Chopra

  Divinity, God Image

  "Deepak Chopra Traces Jesus' Untold Story". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 12, 2008.

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• Christ cannot light a single spark in the heart of an individual, without that little tiny spark being for God. He gives the light, and has ordained that every ray of it is to reflect something for God.

  George Wigram

  Christian, Heart, Light

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• Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Writing, Each Day, Strikes

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• For me, a picture should be like sparks. It must dazzle like the beauty of a woman or a poem. It must have radiance; it must be like those stones which Pyrenean shepherds use to light their pipes.

  Joan Miro

  Light, Dazzle, Shepherds

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• Many a painter has lived in affluence, in high esteem, who lacked the divine spark, and who is utterly forgotten to-day.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Affluence, Forgotten, Prosperity

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• The key factor separating geniuses from the merely accomplished is not a divine spark. It's not I.Q., a generally bad predictor of success, even in realms like chess. Instead, it's deliberate practice. Top performers spend more hours (many more hours) rigorously practicing their craft.

  David Brooks

  Practice, Keys, Crafts

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• The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth while, depresses and crushes at the same time the spark of genius in the Negro by making him feel that his race does not amount to much and never will measure up to the standards of other peoples.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Crush, Depressing, Educational

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.12, Book Tree

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

  Matthew Arnold

  Fall, Waiting, Heaven

  'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 119

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• Monks congregate like dogs in a kennel,
  From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge,
  Is one the course of the wind, is one the water of the sea?
  Is one the spark of the fire, of unrestrainable tumult?
  Monks congregate like wolves,
  From contact with their superiors they acquire knowledge.
  They know not when the deep night and dawn divide.
  Nor what is the course of the wind, or who agitates it,
  In what place it dies away, on what land it roars.

  Taliesin

  Dog, Night, Wind

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• The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Honor, Half, Kindles

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Real, School

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• Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive - makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Thinking, Make You Think, Culture

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Selfish, Dirty

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• It is not unusual to hear a religious leader, a philosopher, or a poet refer to man as having a divine spark within him. Such characterizations infer that man possesses great abilities and potentials. We are frequently admonished to develop our capabilities, reach out, and set high goals for ourselves.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Religious, Men, Generosity

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