Blink Quotes

250 Blink quotes by 209 unique authors

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars… — Brian Selznick
Passing time isn't a steady thing. People try to measure it, but some days seem to have years packed into them, and others pass in… — Blue Balliett
I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things… — Charles Bukowski
We live less than the time it takes to blink an eye, if we measure our lives against eternity. So it may be asked what… — Chaim Potok
Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever. — Rick Warren
Take it from me: love has all the lasting permanence of a rainbow- beautiful while it's there, and just as likely to have disappeared by… — Jodi Picoult
In light this bright, after so long in the dark, everything we can see is only black and white. Only glaring shape-outlines we have to… — Chuck Palahniuk
Statues are too much like dolls, and dolls are creepy. You keep expecting them to blink. And the ones that smile, like this?" Eve kept… — Nora Roberts
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were… — Octavio Paz
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to… — Jonathan Lethem
They would grow up grappling with ways of living with what happened. They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it… — Arundhati Roy
On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes… — Ilona Andrews
I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of… — Amy Hempel
Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my last nerve.” The… — Jeaniene Frost
In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To… — Melissa Marr
I learned a long time ago, Reuven, that a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.… — Chaim Potok
Gauguin flew into a frenzy! He held my head under the X-ray machine for ten straight minutes and for several hours after I could not… — Woody Allen
Put some clothes on, you weird, yellow-eyed, table-dancing, werewolf-training, cryptic, stare-me-right-in-the-eyes-and-don't-even-blink wench. — Jim Butcher
What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears -… — Lisa Kleypas
Janie blinks and leans against the wall, just in case. But it's no one's dream. It's just the end of some things. And the beginning… — Lisa McMann
Time does not really exist for mothers, with regard to their children. It does not matter greatly how old the child is-in the blink of… — Diana Gabaldon
Nothing is ever truly set by fate. In one blink, everything changes. Even though it should be a clear, sunny day, the softest whisper into… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The human body is an amazing organism. It can go from dead tired to completely alert in a terrified blink. — Ilona Andrews
Bishop was all done with the witty converstaion. "Will you swear?" And Myrnin said, shockingly, "I will." And he proceeded to, a string of swearwords… — Rachel Caine
Have you ever noticed how when you're happy, time seems to pass by fast, while when you're miserable it goes real slow? Life would have… — Lynsay Sands

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