Inflammable Material Quotes

#1. Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.

Maturin Murray Ballou

#2. Insofar as Zionism sought to solve the Jewish question, it must be reckoned not just a failure but a catastrophe: Israel is the main cause of anti-Semitism in the world today.

Norman Finkelstein

#3. The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#4. There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

Maureen Howard

#5. I am depressed sometimes, but it's not what keeps me at home or focused on work.

Daron Malakian

#6. They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. I'm a mentor to anybody who's interested.

Clint Eastwood

#8. There is eternity in every second.

Zoe Klein

#9. I've always just liked writing poetry, but it's much later that I've discovered that there's this whole poetry world out there, that you almost have to be accepted into, like this little club.

Victoria Chang

#10. I don't think Trump's a conservative, I'm certainly not going to support him.

Erick Erickson

#11. When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It's when you're mad with it, it's when it's stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It's when there's no hope but that.

Charles Bukowski

#12. The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

Francis Ford Coppola

#13. There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.

Jeffrey Fry

#14. I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

Madonna Ciccone

#15. I am yours, and you are mine.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. Having sharp, great knives will enable you to cook very precisely. Knife skills are essential in cooking.

Eric Ripert