Top 894 Nicholas Spark Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.

An evil spark flared in his eyes. "Trade: raccoon for some answers.

Games shouldn't only be fun. They should teach or spark an interest in other things.

I'll take you to the deepest, darkest, hottest lover's lane for a little spark in the dark.

Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

People ask me if I'm the father of the Tea Party movement... I was the spark... that started it.

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire.

I've lost much of my heart and the spark or fire that once 'created,' or produced, the art of fiction.

There is within each of us a divine spark of greatness. Who knows of what we are capable if we only try?

The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.

I do remember when I first read the script of the 92 In The Shade. I was in the house at Nicholas Beach, and that gang was starting to break up, and I read this terribly well-written dialogue, not figuring out that films are about structure and the thing was totally unstructured, and I thought, "Who is this writer? God, he's great."

All one needs is a computer, a network connection, and a bright spark of initiative and creativity to join the economy.

Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.

In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno.

All it takes is one person who is committed, focused, and on a mission to spark an entire team into believing in themselves.

Defiance to constituted authority leaped like a spark from one flammable area to another, growing in heat as it went.

I like trying to create a spark through a collaboration between me and the audience.

I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.

There's a sort of dead passion in him. A spark that, had he more years to live, would be a wildfire.

I worked with several writers at the University of Michigan: Nicholas Delbanco, Peter Ho Davies, Eileen Pollack, Laura Kasischke, and Thomas Lynch, who told me the same thing over and over again: Persist. Read, write, and improve: tell your stories.

I never paid attention to many of the Nicholas Sparks films. 'The Notebook,' which my wife liked, I felt that Ryan Gosling was a genius in it and Rachel McAdams has this thing about her that you just want to take care of her. I remember that chemistry between them.

It's funny, my agent came up to us and said, "That line, when Nicholas says, 'I'm gonna bust this thing wide open,' what film's that from?" I said, "I think it's from every film." It's just like you get into that kind of mode of generic dialogue, it's fun to do.

I need, sometimes, individuals to spark an idea so that I can take off running.

I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'

Common sense is a vastly overrated virtue. I myself prefer the spark of genius.

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain.

Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

I discovered that acting gave me this spark, this thing. Honestly, it was a way to survive.

If you can light the spark of curiosity in a child, they will learn without any further assistance.

It is the inner life that is to spark the change in consciousness that will permit us to advance

If we stand for change, we can spark a popular movement with power, influence, magic and genius.

People can get involved in wonderfully creative ways that have nothing to do with you, but spark off things you begin with.

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

If Freddie Mac is unable to raise capital, it could spark a political and financial crisis.

I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.

There have always been people like you, Nicholas Flamel. People who think they know what's best, who decide what people should see and read and listen to, who ultimately try to shape how the rest of the world think and acts. I've spent my entire life fighting the likes of you.

This idea of weapons of mass extermination is utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate.

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

There's nothing like a shipwreck to spark the imagination of everyone who was not on that specific ship.

Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

The thing that I hate is that Nicholas Kristof style of writing where it's like, "I saw the poor, they made me so sad. What can I do about sadness? I am so brave." It's just like, shut up, man, shut up.

I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Trade liberalization can be contagious, and the opening of markets regionally can spark progress multilaterally as well.

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

EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.

There is a spark of good in everybody, no matter how deeply it may be buried. It is the real you.

I like to be able to work quickly, to capture the spark of an idea before it goes out.