Flash Quotes
594 quotes by 504 authors
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I wander though China. Without ever having boarded a plane. My travels take place here in the Tokoyo subways, in the backseat of a taxi...…
— Haruki Murakami
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Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
— Theodor Reik
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
— Oscar Wilde
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It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple,…
— Lena Dunham
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Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional peaks…
— Dave Stevens
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That's the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it's gone. And it's like you were…
— Donal Ryan
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The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes…
— Lisa Mangum
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We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things…
— Ralph Caplan
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[Newlyweds,] these optimistic young bastards, promise to honor and cherish each other through hot flashes and mid-life crises and a cumulative 50-pound weight gain, until…
— Jenna McCarthy
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The value of a smile... It costs nothing, but creates much. It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a…
— Dale Carnegie
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I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest…
— Gustave Moreau
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Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?
— Gautama Buddha
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Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'.…
— Liz Murray
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Joy is the response of a lover receiving what he loves. This is the joy we feel when skiing powder… This overflowing gratitude is what…
— Dolores LaChapelle
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We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.
— Henry B. Eyring
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Actuality is when the lighthouse is dark between flashes: it is the instant between the ticks of the watch: it is a void interval slipping…
— George Kubler
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Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory, but not the…
— Arthur Tappan Pierson
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The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.
— John Kricfalusi
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I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I have a purpose.…
— Gillian Flynn
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WE DASH THE BLACK RIVER, ITS flats smooth as stone. Not a ship, not a dinghy, not one cry of white. The water lies broken,…
— James Salter
Who Wrote These Flash Quotes
504 authors contributed a total of 594 Flash Quotes, led by these top contributors: