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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.

I focused my life on things that are a little more dependable, like my family and things that actually make me happy, rather than momentary flashes of success or anything like that.

Quotes by Adam Scott

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.

Quotes by Walter Benjamin

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...

Quotes by Tammy Duckworth

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.

Quotes by Sylvester Stallone

Always Quotes

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.

Quotes by Philip Gibbs

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...

Quotes by Patrick Bamford

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

Quotes by Margaret Anderson

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...

Quotes by Liz Murray

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

Quotes by John Tyndall

Anger Quotes

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

Quotes by James Rosenquist

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.

Quotes by Georgie Henley

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

Quotes by Frank Gehry

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...

Quotes by Ellsworth Kelly

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...

Quotes by Edith Widder

Angry Quotes

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,...

Quotes by Bennet Omalu

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional...

Quotes by Alexander Chee

I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

Quotes by Alan Alda

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the theme connecting these Flashes quotes?
Each one treats a flash as something brief and meaningful, whether it's a memory that can only be caught in an instant, distant bombs lighting a childhood sky, or an idea proven true.
The opening line about seizing an image sounds abstract, what's it saying?
It argues the past can only be truly seized as an image recognized in a single instant, and once that moment passes, it's never seen quite the same way again.
Is the Phnom Penh memory quote about a real childhood experience?
Yes, the speaker recalls being taken to a rooftop as a child to watch distant explosions, a vivid and specific memory shaped by growing up during wartime in Cambodia.
What does ephemeral flashes in the pan refer to?
The speaker contrasts that phrase with their own goal of building things meant to last, wanting their work to have enduring qualities rather than fading quickly like a passing trend.
What page picks up where this one on fleeting moments leaves off?
Try Anger quotes for more intense emotion, or Always quotes for lines about lasting impact.

A childhood memory of watching distant explosions from a rooftop in Phnom Penh sits alongside a builder's wish to make things that endure rather than flare and disappear. See Always quotes or Animals quotes.