- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Flashes Quotes
Brief moments that refuse to be forgotten.
One philosophical line argues the past can only be seized as a flash recognized in a single instant, never seen the same way twice, a thought that pairs with Anger quotes on intensity.
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- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at the bombs exploding in the distance. She didn't want us to be scared by the booms and the strange flashes of light. It was her way of helping us to understand what was happening.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Columns
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- Nov 07, 2020
From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't play well, people don't watch the game, but if you have scored, your name flashes up; it doesn't matter how you've played. So as a striker, that is what I've got to try to do - make sure I score - and if you're doing that, you're also helping the team.
- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
- Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shortly after I turned 13, Child Welfare took me into care. I was sent to a residential centre where girls with behavioural problems were 'evaluated'. My time there comes back to me now only in flashes of smells, images and sounds.
- Brightest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brightest flashes in the world of thought are incomplete until they have been proven to have their counterparts in the world of fact.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm interested in contemporary vision - the flicker of chrome, reflections, rapid associations, quick flashes of light. Bing! Bang!
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Color
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020