Forget the idea that inspiration will come to you like a flash of lightning. It's much more about hard graft. — Mark-Anthony Turnage Copy Share Image
Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A black-crowned night heron stood on an apron of wet sand, looking across the channel. The feather plume at the back of… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Might the peasant expect the Almighty to stay the thunder storm, which clears the air of a nation from pestilence, lest the… — Benjamin Butler Copy Share Image
Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
the tragedy of an attachment is that if its object is not attained it causes unhappiness. But if it is attained, it… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
There are some designers who flash and burn - Courreges is an example of that. But he still marked fashion history. And… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of… — Margery Allingham Copy Share Image
I want longevity. I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to continue to do good work and… — Skylar Astin Copy Share Image
I could have grabbed his shirt collar. I could have pulled him close to me, so close he could feel my breath… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Brighid’s eyes flashed with a blue flame, and I wondered if she had learned to do that just so she could compete… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
People who have known the joy of God point each other to flashes of light here and there, and remind each other… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure.… — John Key Copy Share Image
Nothing in life is more exciting and rewarding than the sudden flash of insight that leaves you a changed person . — Arthur Gordon Webster Copy Share Image
And just then he realized in a flash that men have only this sad knowledge with which to heal themselves: when you… — John Holmes Copy Share Image
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Trout fisherman often give away their presence to the fish by the equipment they are wearing. The yo-yo hanging on the fly… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
