Fuse Quotes

The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
Edward Koch

Today, Begin, Match

Know the function of a fuse box and the appearance of a tripped circuit breaker.
Marilyn vos Savant

Appearance, Function, Box

Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.
Lewis Thomas

Self, Different, Two

I have a long fuse.
Katherine Jenkins

That's kind of fuse for the show - those first 10-15 seconds you're onstage. The curtain drops and you see the crowd for the first time and they see you for the first time. The response and the energy that's going on right there - to me, that sets the tone for the rest of the night.
Jason Aldean

Time, Night, Energy

I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.
Chris O'Donnell

Work, Home, Dad

If you're not balanced, your mind's not balanced... my fuse went.
Frank Bruno

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.
Chaim Potok

Impossible, Culture, Measure

When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.
Darren Criss

Live, Play, American

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.
Kary Mullis

Play, Kids, Weird

My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they still want to find a sensible and fair negotiated agreement. But their patience has run out.
Frances O'Grady

Women, Patience, Care

I'm a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present.
Melanie Fiona

Girl, Past, Together

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.
Richard Morris

Faith, Beauty, Music

I don't like losing but I've mellowed. I maybe have a short fuse but it goes away quicker now.
Alex Ferguson

Short, Away, Losing

Come on, come on! And there'll be no turning back! You were only killing time and it can kill you right back. Come on, come on! It's time to burn up the fuse. You got nothing to do and even less to lose.
Jim Steinman

Time, Nothing, Lose

Unlike metaphor, metonymy does not try to fuse images together.
Thomas Harrison

Together, Try, Images

I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car.
Mike O'Malley

Change, Car, Computer

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