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Quotes About Flashes

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
~ Sydney Smith
I see that you are heartlessly clever.For you know how to Love, but not Forever. You still return to me in flashes, so strong it clouds my Mind.The fire has turned to ashes, and yet, you're not behind.
~ Meraaqi, Divine Trouble
Out of the scabbard of the night, By God's hand drawn, Flashes his shining sword of light, And lo, the dawn!
~ Frank Dempster Sherman
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
~ Sydney Smith
Dame Salome, with one of those flashes of worldly wisdom which at times emerge from very stupid well-meaning people
~ Sylvia Townsend Warner
In 1994, NASA's Compton Gamma Ray Observatory detected something as unexpected as the Velas' discoveries: frequent flashes of gamma rays right near Earth's surface. They were sensibly dubbed "terrestrial gamma-ray flashes." Nuclear holocaust? No, as is evident from the fact that you're reading this sentence.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
And the shadows twisted and churned with incomprehensible shapes. … Flashes of images: an invisible box filled with a broken promise that thrashed with mindless rage.
~ Christopher Paolini
All the world's follies," he replied, "turn up in publishing houses sooner or later. But the world's follies may also contain flashes of the wisdom of the Most High, so the wise man observes folly with humility." Then
~ Umberto Eco
All extreme situations have their lightning flashes which sometimes dazzle, sometimes illuminate us.
~ Victor Hugo
What did we talk about that has left me with an impression of wings and flashes, as of air displaced by the flight of a bird? Of swooping and soaring, of a faint iridescence subdued to the enfolding brightness of the day?
~ L.P. Hartley
That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods…
~ Edith Wharton
I had the Forrest Gump' DVD and started watching. While watching it, I had no intention of writing it. When I started watching it, I got some flashes that it can be adapted in Hindi. That's how it started.
~ Atul Kulkarni
The room grew suddenly several degrees darker, for the wind seemed to be driving waves of darkness across the earth. No one attempted to eat for a time, but sat looking out at the garden, with their forks in the air. The flashes now came frequently, lighting up faces as if they were going to be photographed, surprising them in tense and unnatural expressions.
~ Virginia Woolf
I see the awakening of consciousness as a series of spaced flashes, with the intervals between them gradually diminishing until bright blocks of perception are formed, affording memory and a slippery hold.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
...a rumble so fierce it realigns me to the core ...flashes so bright that I become the night...
~ Terri Guillemets
It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.
~ Johnny Depp
In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The air was stained by shadows, a darkness burst by lightning like camera flashes.
~ China Mieville
Like a solutions-focused therapist, look for the flashes of success.
~ Chip Heath
No hay felicidad en la existencia, no hay más que relámpagos de felicidad.
~ Leo Tolstoy
But I will confess that I began as an astronomer—a liking for bright flashes, vast distances, unreachable things, a hand stretched always toward the furthest limit— and that my longing for you has not taken me very far from that original desire to inscribe a comet's orbit around the walls of our city, to gently stroke the surface of the stars.
~ Unknown
The danger came from the white dragon. This was Father, some kind of partner to the dragon who cared. The newly hatched dragonet could hardly look at him without seeing a spiral of confusing flashes: pain, fury, screaming dragons, and blood, everywhere, blood. This white dragon had done something terrible that haunted him, and he might do worse someday. Father's mind had patches of damp, rotten vileness all over it.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
My thoughts were a jumble. I experienced the world in bewildering fragments and flashes.
~ Darren Shan
Rogers's features were rigid, though Puller could see momentary flashes of pain, represented
~ David Baldacci