Top 206 Flashes Quotes & Sayings

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

I ignored the flashes of lightning all around me. They either had your number on them or they didn't.

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

In these flashes of insight, I understand for a moment that one of the great dividends of darkness is an increased sensitivity to the light.

It is a common fact that we see light flashes in a dark environment while living up here, and this experiment is essentially trying to detect how we humans detect these flashes - not sure if these are visual, if they are some type of radiation maybe sensed by some other part of the brain.

She flashes me a smile so devastating that it could even make an atheist believe in God.

The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.

How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid.

To the questioning glance of love, as it flashes out and then conceals itself, speech has no reply; the smile, the kiss, the sigh answer.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Little flashes of sun on the surface of a cold, dark sea.

I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!

I mean my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.

Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

All the manifest forms of existence are but illusions. They are momentary displays of consciousness, flashes of lightening in the sky. They are there for a moment and then they are gone.

Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can take it or leave it.

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too many miles) flashes. In other words, the flash in Australia, the ionosphere flashes. People get a secondary kickback from the ionosphere just as though they were standing next to the bomb, don't you see?

Houses - the dark side silhouetted on flashes of moonlight!

My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.

Wolf Hall attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together.

I am definitely not into the exposed look. I am not one of those people who flashes their stomach or anything like that, because I don't have the confidence.

These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.

Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

You get too excited over big flashes, Tunstall. Mages rely on that to make you think they have more power than you.

In the fields with which we are concerned, knowledge comes only in flashes. The text is the thunder rolling long afterward.

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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 headed for sorrow.

'Wolf Hall' attempts to duplicate not the historian's chronology but the way memory works: in leaps, loops, flashes.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

A collection is, by my lights, a chance to build a universe, an overarching ecosystem. But it's common enough to encounter a hodgepodge instead, where flashes of brilliance are undercut by clunkers.

The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.

Yes, but with the Cube there are many flashes, there are many aha's.

I always work with two cameras. Its kind of like I'm hypnotizing the subject with the flashing. It's a bombardment of action, flashes, and I think it helps them to ease into the process.

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 have different styles.

Oh, we're very careful, Marilla. And it's so interesting. Two flashes means, "Are you there?" Three means "yes" and four "no." Five means, "Come over as soon as possible, because I have something important to reveal." Diana has just signalled five flashes, and I'm really suffering to know what it is.

wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week early and wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves.

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

A typical day is full of anxiety and boredom. Flow experiences provide the flashes of intense living against this dull background.

At first it seems as if begoing follows becoming. But look even closer and you will see that there are only flashes of lightning illuminating the empty sky.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence.

Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the 'educated' person.

That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

I mean, my father was killed when I was six. And I only have tiny, tiny flashes of memory.

I had been experiencing brief flashes of disassociation, or shallow states of non-ordinary reality.

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.