Anne Rice Quotes

a small spark can start a great fire

Fire is fed by fire. The same small flame destroys Two stalks of wheat at once.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

A spark can become a flame, a flame a fire.

You start a question, and it's like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.

From a small spark, Great flame has risen.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.

The fire burns as the novel taught it how.

Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.

We can set the spark that lights the fire.

Fire—without hatred.

When the whole world is globalized, you're going to be able to set fire to the whole thing with a single match.

It's one of the essentials just to have a lighter on me, you never know what you might have to use. I like my lighters to be blue and small, they can fit in a pocket.

Looking back, fire images have been constant in my poetry. As a boy, it was my job to light the fire each morning, and I remember the celebratory bonfires at the end of the war. It was from staring into fire that I began my first poetry.

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

You must desire the fire, and claim your flame!

Churchgoers are like coals in a fire. When they cling together, they keep the flame aglow; when they separate, they die out.

Flames too soon acquire strength if disregarded.

If you take a bale of hay and tie it to the tail of a mule and then strike a match and set the bale of hay on fire, and if you then compare the energy expended shortly thereafter by the mule with the energy expended by yourself in the striking of the match, you will understand the concept of amplification.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

You can't start a fire without a spark

The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.