Flickering Quotes

87 quotes by 78 authors

I run down to meet Floriana who is breathless from her hike. She stops in the road, the last light at her back. Prickles of… — Marlena De Blasi
Black smoke, the flickering sister of fire. — Aeschylus
I stepped onto the spiritual path moved by an inner sense that I might find greatness of heart, that I might find profound belonging, that… — Sharon Salzberg
The flame is not out, but it is flickering. — Ken Burns
Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and… — Eugenio Montale
Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it… — Julius Nyerere
Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration… — Stephen Leigh
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all… — Pippa Middleton
The dragon-fly is dancing,â€” Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her… — Heinrich Heine
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the… — Henry David Thoreau
The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a… — Gore Vidal
The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color.… — Joyce Carol Oates
I've always been aware of the otherworld, of spirits that exist in that twilight place that lies in the corner of our eyes, of fairie… — Charles de Lint
What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white… — Tom Hanks
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering.… — Bruce Lee
The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering… — George R. R. Martin
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in… — Nikola Tesla
Love drains you, takes with it much of your blood sugar and water weight. You are like a house slowly losing its electricity, the fans… — Lorrie Moore
Harry," Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle. — Jim Butcher

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