Flashes Quotes

143 quotes by 132 authors

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes. — Hilary Mantel
The way that you remember your life, it's never linear. You have flashes of different moments of your life, and the flashes aren't equal; they… — Marjane Satrapi
What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will… — Sylvester Stallone
We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was… — Leo Szilard
In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts. — Stephen King
To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel,… — George Eliot
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her up,… — Victor Hugo
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand… — William Shakespeare
As I drift back into sleep, I can't help thinking that it's a wonderful thing to be right about the world. To weigh the evidence,… — Richard Russo
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
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
To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority? — Scott Westerfeld
There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen… — David Foster Wallace
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain… — Jean Baudrillard
I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality. — Carlos Castaneda
if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you… — Amy Hempel

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