Spark

Famous quotes containing the word spark:

    In general, one may pronounce kissing dangerous. A spark of fire has often been struck out of the collision of lips, that has blown up the whole magazine of virtue.
    Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 203 (April 1803)

    The applause and the favour of our fellow-men
    Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    I wouldn’t take the Pope too seriously. He’s a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.
    —Muriel Spark (b. 1918)