Flash Quotes

The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius. (Stanisław Jerzy Lec)
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. View quote
Gerard Way
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. View quote
Franz Grillparzer
Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity. View quote
Joseph Addison
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. View quote
Mary McCarthy
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. View quote
Susan Sontag
They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. View quote
William Wordsworth
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it. View quote
Michael Ende
It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
The street's alive as secret debts are paid. Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. View quote
W. H. Auden
The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience. View quote
Alfred North Whitehead
A moment later, he plopped down on the sand beside her, and when they accidentally touched, Gabby had the briefest flash of them sitting together just like this on a hundred different weekends in the future. View quote
Nicholas Sparks
Love is the sun, desire – only flash. View quote
Ruslana Korshunova
The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train. View quote
James Jeans
If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn. View quote
Jack Layton
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. View quote
Crowfoot
Changes in the structure of society are not brought about solely by massive engines of doctrine. The first flash of insight which persuades human beings to change their basic assumptions is usually contained in a few phrases. (Kenneth Clark)
Down the mountain walls From where Pan's cavern is Intolerable music falls. Foul goat-head, brutal arm appear, Belly, shoulder, bum, Flash fishlike nymphs and satyrs Copulate in the foam. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Love, to her, was something hat comes suddenly, like a blinding flash of lightening - a heaven-sent storm hurled into life, uprooting it, sweeping every will before it like a leaf, engulfing all feelings. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Genius hath electric power Which earth can never tame, Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower, Its flash is still the same. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius... View quote
Victor Hugo