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Quotes About Flash

When you are working with low budgets and you have a gunshot with a squib and it goes wrong - the gun flash does not synchronize with the squib or whatever - it takes half an hour or 40 minutes to clean it all up and reset it. It's much easier to use a computer to paint in the flash and splatter.
~ George A. Romero
Call it perversity, if you like," he replied. "There is a flash in your eyes, like lightning, when you are angry. I have always preferred thunderstorms to calm, still days.
~ Petra Nash
Why do we use flash at all? Because photography is not the same as eyesight. We can see in low-light situations where cameras, dependent upon a physical process to record visual information, are half blind.
~ David Hewson
People called rock & roll 'African music.' They called it 'voodoo music.' They said that it would drive the kids insane. They said that it was just a flash in the pan - the same thing that they always used to say about hip-hop.
~ Little Richard
If you were looking aside and mentally adding up the hours until the execution of a young killer, all that registered was something dark flashing by. But if you happened to be gazing directly at the window in question and you happened as well to be feeling unprecedentedly calm, four-tenths of a second was more than enough time to identify the falling object as your husband of forty-seven years.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Dreams. All this hustle for my dreams. All tries and failures for my dreams. All encounters of difficulties for my dreams. All flash of light in the end of tunnel for my dreams. Purvi Raniga.
~ Purvi Raniga
To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.
~ John Holmes
I was a DC fan; The Flash was always my favorite character. He was sort of the most average guy amongst all of these icons, even though he had super speed, you know?
~ Greg Berlanti
it may be that it is this very dulness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and welcome. Nevertheless, there can be but few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening when we see, hear, understand so much--everything--in a flash--before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence.
~ Joseph Conrad
One gets sometimes such a flash of inspiration, you know. I did say the right thing, though indeed he could not have been more irretrievably lost than he was at this very moment, when the foundations of our intimacy were being laid—to endure—to endure—even to the end—even beyond.
~ Joseph Conrad
The stars are putting on their glittering belts, They throw around their shoulders cloaks that flash Like a great shadow's last embellishment
~ Wallace Stevens
which the experimental participant leaned her head on a chin-and-forehead rest and stared at a camera while listening to prerecorded information and answering questions on the recorded beats of a metronome. The beats triggered an infrared flash every second, causing a
~ Daniel Kahneman
There had been a nasty moment when his life had flashed before his eyes but he had been too preoccupied with falling and had missed all the good bits.
~ Douglas Adams
That's where the choice words came in, huh? He flashed a conspiratorial grin. "Oh, don't you know it. Choice indeed. So choice you could cut them with a knife and eat them with Heinz 57 sauce.
~ Alafair Burke
Anyone know how USB drives work?
~ Alan Jacobson
Every time I do photo shoots, my bottom lip and, like, my top lip are quivering because I just don't know how to look. Then the flash kind of makes me go boss-eyed sometimes.
~ Anne-Marie
I was looking at this picture of Brooke Shields at Studio 54 the other day. Everyone in the shot looks amazing because they have these black and white cameras with a flash. I think that's what photographers should go back to.
~ Suki Waterhouse
Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
~ David Hewson
Steve Jobs was notoriously blunt about products he found wanting, but his attack on Flash - Adobe's popular technology for playing multimedia content inside a browser - was particularly vicious. Claiming it was buggy and insecure, Jobs banned it from the iPad.
~ Evgeny Morozov
I taught elementary school and painted apartments for ten years. Now I write full-time and never have to change a thing I write. Every book comes to me in a flash of inspiration and takes me about two seconds to finish. The longer books, like the 'Time Warp Trio' novels, take a little longer to write - more like four seconds.
~ Jon Scieszka
Lightning flashed off to the east. It struck somewhere out beyond the city, flickered for a moment, lit up the sky.
~ Ramez Naam
You know how the Marvel Comics superheroes formed themselves into the Justice League of America - Batman, Flash and the rest. Why did Superman join? He never needed any help.
~ John Cooper Clarke
I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes.
~ Keith Ellison
I don't see much difference between prose poems and flash fiction (I've often taught the latter as the former), but then I also don't see that much difference between art and poetry.
~ Matthea Harvey