Sparks/people

Famous quotes containing the words sparks and/or people:

“The genius of reading and of gardening are antagonistic, like resinous and vitreous electricity. One is concentrative in sparks and shocks: the other is diffuse strength; so that each disqualifies its workman for the other’s duties.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!”
—Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)