Flashes Quotations

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.

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

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.

Mozart makes us care about people in flashes of lightning.

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Every time I hear a politician mention the word 'stimulus,' my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.

We've all seen flashes of what Joel can do. But, this year, he's just been so much more consistent.

We're just immature, and we're not where we need to be in terms of competitive greatness. Yet, there's times when there's flashes of very solid basketball. That's where we've been. I'm not happy with it, and we're very disappointed that two or three players couldn't step their game up and make the plays they needed to make when the game was in the balance.

We want him to want the puck, to skate with the puck and find people open with the puck. Hopefully, he can do it. He's shown flashes where he takes off and goes, and sometimes he backs off and becomes conservative.

We were a step slow tonight, but we were able to grind it out. We show flashes of being a very good team, but other times we show how young we are.

We've shown flashes and made strides, which we're proud of. But we have a ways to go, too.

When I met Little Edie, she was clearly nuts, but there were flashes of charm and style. When I agreed to buy the house, I said that I would take it on the condition that either she leave it broom-clean - which was laughable - or that she leave it all ... and she chose to leave everything.

We're showing flashes of brilliance. The key now is to sustain it. People are excited about us in town. I hear about it all the time when I'm out there in the community. But it won't mean a thing if we can't keep it going.

She makes some sophomore mistakes, but she really has flashes of greatness. As far as Olivia, Kirkwood (Community College) knew what they were doing when they got her to commit before the season because you don't get many 6?foot?1 players comfortable with shooting range up to 19?feet.

I have found in my years of being in business that we are all a part of a computer chip somewhere and you just need to know what button to punch and your entire life flashes before your eyes.

Ian has a load of potential. This is really his first big scoring game for us. It came at a great time for us. He showed flashes of this before. Hopefully this is a beginning for him. Maybe he was lacking a little confidence, like our team was.

Bush's brand of forthright tough-guy populism can be appealing, and it has played well in Texas. Yet occasionally there are flashes of meanness visible beneath it.

I have starred in the endless sky, where only clouds can run free, understanding that if will go beyond those clouds, if I conquer the entire universe I will conquer NOTHING, because this is a lie too, as big as I am, a mere Illusion of my Life or other bloody illusions of the lives of other that loose themselves in their reflection in other destinies giving birth to the historical evolution of this lie and with it to the holy book of the spirituality of peoples, in fact the holy book of the spirituality of illusions that were once reflected as images, just like flashes in the Great Void-Being.

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

If I see her at the game, that's when everything flashes back. That's hard for me. Every time I see her, I want to walk the other way, because she's stronger than me.

I expect Jonathan to ascend that chart very rapidly because he's a tremendous athlete and he's shown some flashes of brilliance, but it comes down to knowing what to do and being able to do it.

If we make a first down, the game is over. We had seen what he'd done the series before. That moment flashes by in an instant. We could have sealed win. We needed to do it on on offense and we didn't. We had to stop them on defense and we couldn't.

He's had little flashes where he looks like a big-league pitcher again. But he knows his command is not where he wants it to be.

He has been one of our great players this season, ... Flashes of greatness and then doing things that are not as good. But I think his attitude is exemplary. He made a mistake. He didn't get down on himself. He got back up.

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

He needs to have a big year. It's his third year pro and that's usually when players start stepping ahead. He showed flashes in the (Calder Cup) playoffs and now all we're looking for is consistency.

He (Macaulay) has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful

We've got to try everything to get better and in a groove. I've seen flashes of real good basketball from Mark Blount. I think getting him in the starting lineup will give him a little bit more ownership, a little bit more opportunity to score early in the game.

He's a guy that shows flashes but just needs to be consistent. When we've been really good, we've had depth, so we'd like to have that fourth guy. I'd like to see him put it together (today).

He showed flashes of just how good he's going to be.

He showed flashes of it early. Second year, like everybody, is an adjustment-type of year. This year, he is showing what kind of pitcher he is. He is just dominant. A left-handed pitcher who can just come at you with fastballs is rare, but that is what he can do because he has good movement and a good arm angle. He throws strikes. He's a good pitcher. He's great for the game. He's a good person, having fun out there. He works hard.

He'll be as good as he wants to be. He needs some consistency. He shows flashes of brilliance. He has to have a big year-- for him and the team.

He (Lambert) did some good things for us. We expect good things out of Doug. We want him to be more consistent, we think he can do that every game out. We have seen flashes of that, or we wouldn't have had him out there.

I think the biggest thing we have to do at that position is become consistent. We saw flashes at that position last year and I thought Rankin showed flashes, but we weren't consistent. We need to be consistent and we aren't physical enough still.

I think it was a good mix (of fans). I saw a lot of New Orleans fans up there and people that came over from the state of Louisiana and Mississippi. I thought the reception was outstanding. I forgot about the kickoff when all the flashes went off. I thought we were at the Super Bowl.

Out of all the young running backs I've watched, I like this kid best. Based upon the flashes of greatness I've seen from him, Julius has a chance to be special.

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.

I think everybody needs to finish up strong, ... He's obviously been a little inconsistent lately. Not put any particular notice on him. He needs to hit his spots. He's thrown well at times. He's shown flashes here and there.

I thought he showed some flashes of what stuff he could do. He scored around the basket and showed a nice touch on a perimeter shot. I was happy to be able to give him as many minutes.

We need to play more consistently and with more confidence. We've shown flashes of being a good team.

Winona's a physical team. But I thought we had a good game plan going in. They like to do a lot of switching and we caught them a lot on flashes going to the basket. We scored some easy baskets on overhead lobs, and we did a great job of executing our offense the way we wanted to.

We feel good about ourselves and we're confident, but I don't think we know how good we can be. We showed some flashes (Saturday) and we showed some flashes how bad we can be. So once we know how good we can be, we should be good.

We have to have people that Maize respects as a scoring threat from the perimeter. If not, they're just going to sag everybody down around Joanna when she flashes into the lane.

We had some moments and we has some flashes. But flashes are not going to get it in a rivalry game.

We just never put it all together. We showed flashes of excellence, but never established any consistency. I am proud of the kids for working hard all season long.

We showed some flashes tonight. We're confident. Our defense was good at some points and our offense was good at some points and we were bad at some points with both.

Argentina showed flashes of playing at its best today. Only rarely have we played better.

The sunlight flashes off your windshield,and when I look up into the small, posted mirror,I watch you diminish--my echo, my twin--and vanish around a curve in this whipof a road we can't help traveling together.

The sunlight flashes off your windshield, and when I look up into the small, posted mirror, I watch you diminish--my echo, my twin-- and vanish around a curve in this whip of a road we can't help traveling together.

The Texas defense did a really nice job of keeping him in check. We wouldn't expect him to run wild on them, but you see flashes of what he can do. He's got a game-breaker's mentality in that he believes he can score whenever he is in the open field.

Purple flashes of fire and light were coming out of every socket in the house. The lights there turned off, turned on, instantly.

After four years in New York, this young woman still finds it offensive when someone flashes the 'OK' sign. She knows that it means 'OK' here, but it is still disconcerting to her -- she is translating body language using her understanding of what that particular gesture means.

Definitely not. He's got great talent. He shows a lot of flashes of ability when he's on the field. I look forward to when he's out there knowing everything he's supposed to do and does the techniques the correct way.

Anthony played fantastic. He's an undersized post player, but he can put the ball on the floor, he can get to the basket. He's shown flashes of that all year.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly

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

You see flashes of what you're getting, ... But you can't see it with any consistency.

You saw flashes last year. Ronnie got a little banged up at the end of the year and would've easily had 1,000 yards as a rookie. He's really a complete back and I think he could play every down. That guy's going to be a force to be reckoned with for years, I guarantee you that.

This is exactly the kind of performance we were hoping for during the season. We saw flashes of it earlier, but it all came together tonight.

taking the game to all corners of the globe. They criticize him for it, saying it holds him back. What they don't understand is that he cares about the game and where it's going. They have no idea how much passion he has. I see it up close. He can be a hard man with me. Sometimes, you have to have that edge, you know, to get to where you are going, to be at the top of that tree. He'll have flashes of temper, believe me. It happens, and then it's over. That's it.

It's disappointing. We showed flashes and signs this year of what type of team we can be, a top-five team. Other times, we looked bad, just inconsistent. But we got a new season now. We got to forget about this and just try to win some games.

I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.

I've just got to give the kids credit for playing smart, organized soccer. We had some great individual efforts there to get the goals in. We had some other great flashes of just great soccer.

They've shown flashes of what they are about so far, so have we. So the team that best puts its imprint on the game will probably get the points!

As you remember we got a lot of rain. Some 20 minutes into the search on one of the creek banks, a real remote area I started seeing flashes of light like someone trying to signal me.

The fans are excited for us. They are starting to see the St. John's program show flashes of good things.

I'm really proud of Nick because he just wrestled the tournament of his life. Last year, he was this pudgy kid who never could crack the lineup. We saw flashes of greatness from him during the regular season and now he just keeps plugging away in the tournaments.

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

I must learn to walk this long unlovely wintry way, looking for spectacles, shunning the cruel looking-glass, laughing at my clumsiness before others mistakenly condole, not expecting gallantry yet disappointed to receive none, apprehending every ache of shaft of pain, alive to blinding flashes of mortality, unarmed, totally vulnerable.

If you looked at our season and the way we've lost, you could say the football gods didn't smile on us. We could be here saying we're 13-1. . . . We've shown flashes of being a great team, but we've let games slip away. . . . Whom do you blame? You blame yourself.

If you go back and check all the reviews for all the icons of today -- Elvis, the Beatles and so on -- they were dismissed as flashes in the pans,

I had flashes (of his career being over), but my teammates, family and friends got me through everything. They always kept my head up.

He's exhibited Major League power in the Minor Leagues. We've seen some flashes of it at this level. He's taken it and been able to put it in play with some consistency for a short period of time. That's what we're all pulling for him to pull off throughout the season.

He's exhibited major-league power in the minor leagues and we've seen some flashes of it at this level. He's working hard in (batting practice) and he's working hard in the cage and hitting the ball hard where it's pitched.

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I didn't see it happening. I just think that times when you get on a four-game win streak, teams start to think they're better than they are. We can't have that attitude. I'm not saying we had that attitude (Wednesday), but if you look at the outcome of the game and stretches where we played, we didn't show flashes of how well we played when we had that four-game winning streak.

I'd hate to think where we'd be without those two, ... They play the way rookies do, with flashes of greatness one minute, and then maybe a mistake the next. They're learning as they go along.

The kid at times showed flashes of brilliance. He stood in there and threw some passes, put them on a dime with people in his face. Once he goes through those experiences, I think that guy could be a really, really good quarterback.

The colors, we start off very stark, black, white, and flashes of red. And then it becomes quite pretty. colorful, lyrical.