Flash Quotes

• It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

  Voltaire

  Thunderbolts

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• A smile happens in a flash, but its memory can last a lifetime.

  Bertrand Russell

  Smile, Memories, Lasts

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• The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

  Lloyd Grossman

  Dark, Moon, Excellence

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.

  Susan Sontag

  Forever, Details, Life Is

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• My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Echoes, Listening, Tape

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• Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin to see one clearly, another slides in, blotting out the first, itself to be pushed aside by the next and the next and the next.

  Conrad Veidt

  Memories, Years, Next

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• Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Sun, Lightning, Genius

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• To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

  Arnold Bennett

  Creativity, Artist, Soul

  Arnold Bennett, Sir Newman Flower (1932). “Delenda est * BOD : staff use only”

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• We are not that flash, me or the missus. In fact, we are quite low-maintenance.

  Guy Ritchie

  Maintenance, Facts, Lows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

  John Kricfalusi

  Inspiration, Character, Creating

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• Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Night, Thinking

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• What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.

  Crowfoot

  Life, Change, Death

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• 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.

  Joseph Addison

  Clouds, Break Through, Serenity

  'The Spectator' no. 381, 17 May 1712

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• I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Brother, Hip Hop, Hips

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• So that's when I saw the DNA model for the first time, in the Cavendish, and that's when I saw that this was it. And in a flash you just knew that this was very fundamental.

  Sydney Brenner

  Dna, Fundamentals, Saws

  Sydney Brenner (2001). “A life in science”

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• I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'

  Chris Matthews

  Summer, Mother, Jobs

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• I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

  Sam J. Jones

  Play, People, Actors

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• He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.

  Margery Allingham

  Two, Intuition, Quiet

  Margery Allingham (2016). “Margery Allingham Box Set 2: Flowers for the Judge, Death of a Ghost, and The Case of the Late Pig”, p.120, Ipso Books

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• For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Eye, Solitude

  "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" l. 19 (1815 ed.)

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• This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Dream, Shadow

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• I don't go for the flash and panache.

  Paul Walker

  Panache

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• How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.

  William Rotsler

  Friendship, Real, Eulogy

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• A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars.

  Robert Collier

  Money, Ideas, Dollars

  Robert Collier (1948). “The Secret of the Ages”

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• Genius hath electric power;
  Which earth can never tame;
  Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower;
  Its flash is still the same.

  Lydia M. Child

  Dark, Electric Power, Clouds

  "Marius Amid the Ruins of Carthage". Poem by Lydia Maria Child,

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• I certainly know the difference between right and wrong.

  Robert De Niro

  Differences, Velvet, Killers

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