Quotes About Flicker

What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began.

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

You made good time from Portland." In seconds, she shunted away the brief flicker of remembered heat from her gaze and became as coolly polite as her downstairs neighbor. "I was afraid you'd be ready to string me up if I didn't hurry." "I

Lightning flashed off to the east. It struck somewhere out beyond the city, flickered for a moment, lit up the sky.

Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker. [Lat., Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Sommia quo cerni tempore vera solent.]

For a second, there was that weird flicker in her eyes, that wickedness that I loved, that I wanted to live inside. A wicked child was the most beautiful thing in the world.

She was like a candle that just went out. All the circles that made her up suddenly got lopsided and warped.

Death is lighter than a feather. Death arrives in a heartbeat, no more tangible than a flicker of light. It has no weight, no substance.

When night comes on in a room lit by kerosene, any flicker of the flame can give the sense that darkness is about to triumph.

Hope is a flicker, a candle flame kept burning by the simple act of breathing.

Un bacio nell'incavo del ginocchio è un fruscio di falena alla zanzariera e sì amore mio un puntino luminoso sull'ecometro è Campanellino con la tossetta e due volte perderò l'onore e le stelle saranno confitte come puntine nella notte sì oh sì sì sì due chioccioline all'incavo del ginocchio che accen- dono falò simili a ci- glia che sfregano sì sì sì come pietrina d'accendino bic: e così esisto!

Television concentrates its blue flicker of death in the frontal lobe

Yes?" asked Margaret, for there was a long pause—a pause that was somehow akin to the flicker of the fire, the quiver of the reading-lamp upon their hands, the white blur from the window; a pause of shifting and eternal shadows.

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Very well, since you're a swing enthusiast. I noticed the flicker of recognition in your eyes when I mentioned the Lunceford band. Who was Trummy Young?" "Played trombone with his feet," said Haley. "Now about the free warning.

Some lights shine without any flashing. Others flash on and off.

and in the wedge of light from the hallway she thought she saw something flicker

I just love candles... the colour, the glow, the light.

The shining light of Logres shone as high and clear as ever, but as a candle flares before it gutters out.

Candle-flicker. Come into the darkness and be no more alone." His smile grew tender. "Thou art an avenger, sister. Thy Light has abandoned thee. Avenge thyself.

Perfidious candle-flicker," he said in a hush. "Remember me.

Oh, that was fang indeed, and the flicker of a long forked tongue in silent laughter.

And so the first part of my tale is told, and with it a candle goes out.

Scatter the names of all those who have ever lived over the surface of the knowable cosmos, and it would remain, for all purposes, as unnamed as it was before the small, anomalous flicker of human life appeared on this small, wildly atypical planet.