Best 62 quotes in «flash quotes» category

My shoe life flashed before my eyes...

The day you left, it felt like I lost a diary in which I had been writing for so long. Now all that memories flashes in bits and pieces inside my head always and makes me wish that I could sit back and read it all over again.

Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response.

That’s the thing about the collapse of civilization, Blake. It never happens according to plan – there’s no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.

This. This is exactly it. "It had always seemed to Emily, ever since she could remember, that she was very, very near to a world of wonderful beauty. Between it and herself hung only a thin curtain; she could never draw the curtain aside — but sometimes, just for a moment, a wind fluttered it and then it was as if she caught a glimpse of the enchanting realm beyond — only a glimpse — and heard a note of unearthly music. This moment came rarely — went swiftly, leaving her breathless with the inexpressible delight of it. She could never recall it — never summon it — never pretend it; but the wonder of it stayed with her for days. It never came twice with the same thing. Tonight the dark boughs against that far-off sky had given it. It had come with a high, wild note of wind in the night, with a shadow wave over a ripe field, with a grey bird lighting on her windowsill in a storm, with the singing of “Holy, holy, holy” in church, with a glimpse of the kitchen fire when she had come home on a dark autumn night, with the spirit-like blue of ice palms on a twilit pane, with a felicitous new word when she writing down a ‘description’ of something. And always when the flash came to her Emily felt that life was a wonderful, mysterious thing of persistent beauty." — Emily of New Moon by ‪

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.

But just before they cut back to the main newscaster, I see the unmistakable flash of that same mockingjay's wing. The reporter has simply been incorporated into the old footage. She's not in District 13 at all. Which begs the question, What is?

Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.

Can you imagine Grandmaster Flash on a laptop?

Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

I don't think... one get a flash of happiness once, and never again; it is there deep within you.

I don't go for the flash and panache.

I got my first flash of titties from a Venezuelan hooker.

If I had never won a single medal, I'd still be skating in a rink somewhere. There wouldn't be an audience or camera flashes or autograph seekers, but I'd still be skating.

I flash him number seventeen of my thirty-five Looks of Death.

I had my one guest star on The Flash, and that became several guest stars, and then they mentioned this new show.

I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.

I'm learning how to have a healthy form of love, how to make it lasting rather than just have it be a flash in the pan.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.

In an episodic treatment, such as a teleplay is, you have the ability to do what you can do in a novel, which is flash back and flash forward in the same instant, in the same scene, in the same voice.

In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.

Its so real out here right now, the only reason why you see anything is cuz I got the flash on.

It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

Love is the sun, desire - only flash.

My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.

My guess is that he remembers some of me, some of us together, and the rest rolled off him like topsoil in a flash flood.

Now, now, you aren't afraid of monsters in the dark, are you?" I caught a flash of her eyes, winking wickedly at me. "No," I said, shivering. After all, I was one of them.

On Flash, I thought of myself as a spice character; come in, do a little dance, and I go.

One hears but one does not seek; one takes -- one does not ask who gives; a thought flashes up like lightning, it comes of necessity and unfalteringly formed.

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

So here's the flash: Continuing to live life as a victim of circumstance, forever focusing on what's wrong with everything and everybody, will never, ever, bring the life desired. It will only bring one thing: more of whatever it is we're wanting so desperately to change.

The Adobe flash plug-in is non-free software, and people should not install it, or suggest installing it, or even tell people it exists.

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

The photographer in my head says: Give me peace. Flash. Give me release. Flash.

The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife.

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.

Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.

Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.

True love always happens in a flash.