Active Quote by Cyril Connolly

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor…

— Cyril Connolly

But reading is not idleness?it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is…

— Stephen Spender

What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to…

— Loren Eiseley

To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as…

— Ronald Reagan

Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

— Dick Morris

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

— Rachel Weisz

Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power…

— Richard Ballantine

...it ought to be possible to establish a coordinated global program to accomplish the strategic goal of completely eliminating the internal combustion engine over,…

— Al Gore

Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the…

— William J. Mitchell

“Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.”

— Various attributed sources

It's pretty boring, working by yourself. The scene happens in between the two of you, and then you don't know what it's going to…

— Julianne Moore