Quotes of: Combustion Keyword

Spontaneous human combustion is for superstitious atheists. I believe in deliberate human combustion.

Some Inspiration for the Overenthusiastic

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Dick Morris

About eight days ago I discovered that sulfur in burning, far from losing weight, on the contrary, gains it; it is the same with phosphorus; this increase of weight arises from a prodigious quantity of air that is fixed during combustion and combines...

Antoine Lavoisier

I want to do something spontaneous, like combust.

$3.33

If I self-loathe with any more passion, I will spontaneously combust.

Frances Winkler

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Arnold H. Glasow

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire.

Arnold H. Glasow

Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Various attributed sources

Never spontaneously combust alone, or without a bag of marshmallows nearby.

This Book Has No Title

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 up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

Michael Leunig

Dicho del Profeta Envidia La envidia devora las buenas obras, como el fuego devora el combustible.

Caravan of Dreams

This time, I wanted to enjoy the passion that burned between us until we were both about to combust.

Moonlight

The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

Dana Brunetti

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

Gaylord Nelson

Theater is the crucible where we can create the dynamics of life without suffering the flames of their combustion.

The Frowny Face Cow

Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity.

Hemlock Grove

Alfredo: [after informed about the arrival of the new non-combustible film] Progress always comes late.

Cinema Paradiso

David St. Hubbins: Dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It's just not really widely reported.

This Is Spinal Tap

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 off of hydrogen.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.

A.B. Shepherd