Blink Quotes - Page 2

• Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Intuition, Insight

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• There are moments when suddenly our eyes blink open and we recapture the excitement of living. Life becomes an adventure and we, adventurers.

  Wayne Visser

  Live Life, Adventure, Eye

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• In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Future, Eye

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• If you look at the whole life of the planet, we - you know, Man - has only been around for a few blinks of an eye. So if the infection wipes us all out, that is a return to normality.

  Alex Garland

  Eye, Men, Looks

  "Fictional character: Sergeant Farrell". "28 Days Later...", www.imdb.com. 2002.

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• Enjoy every single day you get to lead because it will be over in a blink.

  Bill Hybels

  Enjoy

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• Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

  Paul Harding

  Eye, Light, Differences

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• Life is a vapor. It passes in the blink of an eye.

  Sarah Louise Delany

  Eye, Vapor, Life Is

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• You create the world, blink by blink. It is entirely yours to discover and yours to create.

  Sophia Amoruso

  World

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.163, Penguin

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• It's amazing in the blink of an eye you finally see the light.

  Steven Tyler

  Eye, Light, Blink Of An Eye

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• Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes,
  And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays;
  Come let us spend the lightsome days
  In the birks of Aberfeldy.

  Robert Burns

  Summer, Play

  Robert Burns, Robert P. Irvine (2013). “Selected Poems and Songs”, p.145, Oxford University Press

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• Free-market capitalism, in the blink of an eye, was gutted and replaced by an oligopoly.

  Gerald Celente

  Eye, Oligopoly, Free Market

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• Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Eye, Greatness, Color

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.39, Shambhala Publications

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• No, My son, the evolutionists are not right. I created all of this-all of this-in the blink of an eye; in one holy instant-just as the creationists have said. And...it came about through a process of evolution taking billions and billions of what you call years, just as the evolutionists claim. They are both "right." As the cosmonauts discovered, it all depends on how you look at it.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Eye, Son, Years

  "Conversations With God: Book One". Book by Neale Donald Walsch, January 22, 2009.

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• You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of a cosmic eye. In the meantime, live like a scientist - even a controversial one with only an ally or two in all the world - and treat life as a grand experiment, blood, sweat, tears and all. Bear in mind that there's no such thing as a failed experiment - only data.

  Jesse Bering

  Life, Eye, Soon Enough

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• Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.

  Robert Burns

  Summer, Play, Crystals

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.169

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• If you blink your eyes or go get a Coke, you've missed 10 things.

  Alice Cooper

  Eye, Coke, Ifs

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• Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it will be inside our contact lens. When we blink, we will go online. When we see somebody that we don't recognize, our contact lens will identify who they are, print out their biography in your contact lens and translate, if they're speaking Chinese, into English with subtitles as they speak.

  Michio Kaku

  Chinese, Lenses, Cost

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.

  Robin Williams

  Death, Long, Dying

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• He loves so wholly. It is his nature. He blinks, then tries to find the right response. "I-" he stumbles. "I'm so afraid, June. So afraid of what might happen to-" I put two fingers against his lips to hush him. "Fear makes you stronger," I whisper. Before I can stop myself, I put my hands on his face and press my mouth to his.

  Marie Lu

  Two, June, Hands

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• I reassured my mother that it didn’t matter to me if my face was not symmetrical. Me, who had always cared about my appearance, how my hair looked! But when you see death, things change. “It doesn’t matter if I can’t smile or blink properly,” I told her. “I’m still me, Malala. The important thing is God has given me my life.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Motivational, Mother, Hair

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• People who understand Doom don't blink an eye at song lengths.

  Mike Scheidt

  Song, Eye, People

  "Show No Mercy". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 17, 2009.

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• You are really starting to annoy me, Stanton.” Nick didn’t blink. “Good. By the end of the night I hope to finish the job.

  Julie James

  Jobs, Night, Annoying

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• I'd sit at my kitchen table and start scanning help-wanted ads on my laptop, but then a browser tab would blink and I'd get distracted and follow a link to a long magazine article about genetically modified wine grapes. Too long, actually, so I'd add it to my reading list. Then I'd follow another link to a book review. I'd add the review to my reading list, too, then download the first chapter of the book—third in a series about vampire police. Then, help-wanted ads forgotten, I'd retreat to the living room, put my laptop on my belly, and read all day. I had a lot of free time.

  Robin Sloan

  Reading, Book, Wine

  Robin Sloan (2012). “Mr Penumbra's 24-hour Bookstore”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Your eyes have turned as black as a Crow’s,” she blurted out. He didn’t even blink over her bizarre comment. “Not this time, Christina,” he said in a furious whisper. “Compliments won’t get me off balance again, my little temptress. I swear to God, if you ever again dismiss me so casually, I’m going to––” “Oh, it wasn’t a compliment,” Christina interrupted, letting him see her irritation. “How presumptuous of you to think it was. The Crow is our enemy.

  Julie Garwood

  Eye, Thinking, Swear To God

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• This is the last time I'm asking you this,
  Put my name at the top of your list,
  This is the last time I'm asking you why,
  You break my heart in the blink of an eye.

  Taylor Swift

  Heart, Eye, Names

  "Song: 'The Last Time'". 2012.

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