Flash Quotes
594 quotes by 504 authors
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Persistence isn't very glamorous. If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.…
— Susan Cain
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Mindfulness is like that—it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we…
— Nhat Hanh
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Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant…
— Cornell Woolrich
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On the face of her phone Wileen programs a message to herself so that when the alarm clock rings the screen flashes: EVERY DAY IS…
— Buddy Wakefield
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I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
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[Jenks]"I think you're all screwy in the head," he said when Bis nodded his encouragement. "But go ahead. I've got Quen's number in my phone.…
— Kim Harrison
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She watched him stop to pat the mayor on the back. He stumbled a little in the crowd, and his left hand disappeared ever so…
— Ally Carter
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The first time I saw you, at the Governor, I handn't been to watch the birds at the border in years. But that's what you…
— Lauren Oliver
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What kind of plan B?" Hale asked. He was almost holding his breath when a voice answered, "My kind." Macey tried to read the look…
— Ally Carter
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I close my eyes. An image flashes—emerging from the van with Julian after our escape from New York City; believing, in that moment, that we…
— Lauren Oliver
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The Thieves of Eddis don't have breaking points. We have flash points instead, like gunpowder.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
— Lauren Oliver
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it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like…
— Lauren Oliver
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Those who love, friends and lovers, know that love is not only a blinding flash, but also a long and painful struggle in the darkness…
— Albert Camus
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Indeed." Will let his cutlery clatter onto his plate. "The Consul? Breaking up our breakfast time? Whatever next? The Inquisitor over for tea? Picnics with…
— Cassandra Clare
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I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.
— Anne Frank
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His dark hair is perfectly recklessly up today, those tanned muscles flexing as he extends out his arms and does his little turn. And here…
— Katy Evans
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It's hard to say what makes the mind piece things together in a sudden lightning flash. I've come to hold the human spirit in the…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Gideon was a force of nature, his magnetic self-possession so powerful it put everyone around him in his shadow. I saw flashes of it every…
— Sylvia Day
Who Wrote These Flash Quotes
504 authors contributed a total of 594 Flash Quotes, led by these top contributors: