Flash Quotes - Page 7

• I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.

  Donald Knuth

  Memories, Jewels, Ubuntu

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• I used to watch the old 'Flash Gordon' series on TV, and it was thrilling to rocket to the planet Mongo every week. But after a while, I figured out that although Flash got the girl and all the accolades, it was really Dr. Zarkov who made the series work. Without Dr. Zarkov, there could be no Flash Gordon.

  Michio Kaku

  Girl, Rockets, Tvs

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• Do I envy Madonna’s body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you’re fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime’s work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!

  Salma Hayek

  Envy, Thank God, Looks

  "Salma Hayek Supports Madonna’s Controversial Tour Style" by Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2012.

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

  Frank Gehry

  Father, Creativity, Stuff

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• I think a lot of times people design restaurants with flash in mind. I think you should design restaurants with function in mind. Make sure it's functional and works with what you're trying to accomplish. Design can come later.

  Bobby Flay

  Thinking, People, Design

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• When the show opens, fans can text to a number we flash up on the screen, and then we do a meet-and-greet with 60 to 80 people every night. It's something I love doing, and I would say that's probably more fans than most artists bring backstage after a show.

  Luke Bryan

  Artist, Night, Numbers

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• I think I've got 12... Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman, Plastic-Man, Green Lantern, Sandman, The Justice League, The Atom Legion of Superheroes and Teen Titans.... Just about all of their top titles.

  Stan Lee

  Men, Thinking, League

  Source: www.ign.com

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

  Hilary Mantel

  Memories, Way, Chronology

  "Hilary Mantel: how I came to write Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• 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.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Style, Different, Way

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• Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

  Martin Scorsese

  Gone, Film, Persons

  "A history of violence". Interview with Ed Pilkington, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2006.

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• It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its pressure, stress, enemies, critics; you have to develop relationships and a team. There are all of these things that go along with taking a leap and following your dreams.

  T. D. Jakes

  Dream, Stress, Team

  "T.D. Jakes Talks: Second Chances, Humble Beginnings & Knowing Your Worth". Interview with Zon D’Amour, lasentinel.net. September 21, 2016.

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• Extroverts are more attuned to social rewards, so they are more likely to flash a smile for effect. A notable exception are introverts - like me - whom I call "socially accessible" introverts. We have been trained well to smile and nod, which can place a burden on our processing efforts.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Effort, Extroverts, Rewards

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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

  Stephen King

  Clouds, Light, Brain

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Flash mobbing may be a fad that passes away, or it may be an indicator of things to come.

  Howard Rheingold

  Passing Away, May, Fads

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• 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

  Jobs, Insecure, Technology

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• Pop music was supposed to be a flash in the pan, but here we are 50 years later and it means something to us, and it always will do. It's incredibly important.

  Paul Weller

  Mean, Years, Important

  "Paul Weller: 'You've got to be willing to upset people'". Interview with Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2010.

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• If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect.

  Emma Watson

  Museums, Long, Lasts

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

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• 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.

  Leo Szilard

  Home, Night, Sorrow

  1939 After an early experiment at Columbia University which proved the possibility of splitting the atom. Quoted in James B Simpson Simpson's Contemporary Quotations (1988).

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• What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Trying, Quality, Ephemeral

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• I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

  Margaret Atwood

  Age, Golden, Flash Gordon

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• It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

  Stephen King

  Hot Flashes, Hot, Hysterical

  Stephen King (2016). “Different Seasons”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.

  Zadie Smith

  People, Looks, Sometimes

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• The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void.... That’s why the slightest technical hitch, the slightest slip on the part of the presenter becomes so exciting, for it reveals the depth of the emptiness squinting out at us through this little window.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Media, Squinting, Inability

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• My sisters and I stand, arms around each other, laughind and wiping the tears from each others eyes. The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my family hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops. Ghe grey-greensurface changes to the bright colors of our three images, sharpening and deepening all at once. And although we don't speak, I know we all see it: Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open in suprise to see, her long-cherished wish.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Eye, Hands

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

  Carlos Castaneda

  Reality, Ordinary, Shallow

  Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.127, Univ of California Press

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