Flashed Quotes
104 quotes by 87 authors
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How could I feel so miserable in the midst of such splendor? The question flashed through me all at once, not waiting for words to…
— Susan L. Taylor
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We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept…
— Ali Smith
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Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150…
— Frank Woolley
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At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima,…
— John Hersey
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These changes-the more rapid pulse, the deeper breathing, the increase of sugar in the blood, the secretion from the adrenal glands-were very diverse and seemed…
— Walter Bradford Cannon
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I flashed her a smile, but she didn't even look at me. So for brains and good judgment, I'd give her a three.
— Bobby Bare
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A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy,…
— Katherine Dunn
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Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of…
— Stephen King
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The Screaming flashed me back to a time when mom and dad were still together if you could call miles apart together.
— Ellen Hopkins
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It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything or anybody. From…
— Doris Lessing
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There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade…
— Albert Camus
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My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face,…
— Stephen King
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He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel or climb up…
— Alice Sebold
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Your eyes flashed fire into my soul. I immediately read the words of Dostoyevsky and Karl Marx, and in the words of Albert Schweitzer, I…
— Eddie Izzard
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And you're sorry that the ephemeral beauty has faded so rapidly, so irretrievably, that it flashed so deceptively and pointlessly before your eyes--you're sorry, for…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.
— Edward Frederic Benson
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[...] He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would…
— Catherine Anderson
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Tally sighed, tipping her feet again to follow. "Maybe that's because they have better stuff to do than kid tricks. Maybe partying in town is…
— Scott Westerfeld
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Sure,†she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?†Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror. Besides everything,…
— Rachel Caine
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Enough talk," Peter said, and his eyes flashed. "It's time to turn you three into killers.
— Brom
Who Wrote These Flashed Quotes
87 authors contributed a total of 104 Flashed Quotes, led by these top contributors: