Flash Quotes

594 quotes by 504 authors

I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the… — P.G. Wodehouse
The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. — Henry Miller
I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things...In the big things joy and sorrow… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The lunatic is all idÃ©e fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common… — Umberto Eco
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn — John Berryman
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the… — Michel Foucault
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
It could be a meeting on the street, or a party or a lecture, or just a simple, banal introduction, then suddenly there is a… — John O'Donohue
Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.' There are some similarities. — Janet Evanovich
My dear, dear girl [. . .] we can't turn back the days that have gone. We can't turn life back to the hours when… — Thomas Wolfe
Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt… — Charles Frazier
It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. — John Gardner
I was watching him crawl, Back over the wall-! Then bang! Crash! And the lightning flash! And- well, that's another story, Never mind- Anyway... — Stephen Sondheim
My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about… — Robin McKinley
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed.… — Junot Diaz
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from… — Neil Gaiman
You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a… — Nancy Mitford
It was Lorraine in her nightie and Mo in his cap. They'd just settled their brains for a long winter's nap in front of the… — Janet Evanovich

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