Flash Quotes

594 quotes by 504 authors

What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &… — Mark Twain
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of… — Jean Paul
Unfortunately, nature is very much a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't affair. A fish flashes, then dissolves in the water before my eyes like so much salt. Deer… — Annie Dillard
If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again. — T Bone Burnett
Striving for happiness is a long, hard journey with many challenges. It requires eternal vigilance to win the victory. You cannot succeed with sporadic little… — Jack H. Goaslind
The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to me - both… — Paul Halmos
Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything. — Henri Poincare
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling.… — Daryl Hall
The creation of this new company supports Intel's intent to maintain its industry-leading position in nonvolatile memory and enables us to rapidly enter a fast-growing… — Paul Otellini
War is an unpredictable beast. Once unleashed, it runs like a rabid dog, ravening friend or foe alike. It can drag on for years, a… — Kate Forsyth
Television won't last. It's a flash in the pan. — Mary Somerville
I was on the tube just before Christmas. and this girl turned round to me and said, 'Are you Kate Winslet?'. And I said, 'Well,… — Kate Winslet
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh… — Marg Helgenberger
There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking… — Ruth Negga
Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another… — Conrad Veidt
Never forget how swiftly this life will be over, like a flash of summer lightning or the wave of a hand. Now that you have… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of… — Sam J. Jones

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