Combustion Quotes

49 Combustion quotes by 44 unique authors

Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the… — Bob Brown
I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament...… — Dorothy Parker
The vanishing point leads to the missiles of today, which can take us out of this world. It could be that the west's greatest mistakes… — David Hockney
The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. — Glenn Gould
To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying… — Ronald Reagan
There was a study done in the early 20th century of all the entrepreneurs who entered the automobile industry around the same time as Henry… — Eric Ries
The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed. — Nick Hornby
Arson is a respected profession among certain subcultures in Jersey, and the good ones don't get caught. The good ones channel lightning and mysterious acts… — Janet Evanovich
I believed in immaculate conception and spontaneous combustion. I believed in aliens from outer space and vampires, prophecy, and the resurrection of the dead. I… — Kate Braverman
If I had my way," Dionysus said, "I would cause your molecules to erupt in flames. We'd sweep up the ashes and be done with… — Rick Riordan
I’m not dead yet. It’s all good. (Omari) Good. That whole spontaneous combustion thing can be a real buzzkill. Ruins your clothes, too. (Nero) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
...and she ran out of the diesel combustion and right to me and we held each other and we were not empty at all. "Holling,"… — Gary D. Schmidt
As soon as a man and woman of almost any age are alone together within four walls it is assumed that anything may happen. Spontaneous… — Alice Munro
Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and… — Eric Jerome Dickey
a combustion engine of ambition and disappointment. — Tina Fey
Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in. — Rick Riordan
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit… — Michael Leunig
The foodstuff, carbohydrate, is essentially a packet of hydrogen, a hydrogen supplier, a hydrogen donor, and the main event during its combustion is the splitting… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire. — Fred Shero
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. — Arnold H. Glasow
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in car. — Elwyn Brooks White
A twenty three on the verge of spontaneous combustion. Woe-is-me — Incubus
Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. --Arnold H. Glasow — Arnold H. Glasow
Our school is very low-budgeted; our physics book is so out of date the last chapter deals with combustion. — James

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