Flicker Quotes

• Love is like a friendship caught on fire.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Romantic, Soulmate

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters" by Hunter S. Thompson, Volume I, (p. 28), 1997.

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• Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

  Bruce Lee

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.96, Tuttle Publishing

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• Life is beautiful and living is pain.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Beautiful, Pain, Life Is

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Loneliness, Thinking, Yesterday

  Hunter S. Thompson (2014). “The Proud Highway: Rejacketed”, p.51, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Ice, Life Is

  "The Sun Watches the Sun" by Dejan Stojanovic, Sunce sebe gleda, Književna reč, Beograd, "Rain of the Absolute," p. 25, 1999.

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

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• Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Valentines Day, Dream

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.41

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• In all that you are living... As the problem flickers, the solution flickers too.

  Esther Hicks

  Problem, Awareness, Solutions

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• I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Eye, People, Shining

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.104, Penguin

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• They lay on their heathery beds and listened to all the sounds of the night. They heard the little grunt of a hedgehog going by. They saw the flicker of bats overhead. They smelt the drifting scent of honeysuckle, and the delicious smell of wild thyme crushed under their bodies. A reed-warbler sang a beautiful little song in the reeds below, and then another answered.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Song, Night

  Enid Blyton (2016). “The Secret Island”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• I love having candles, especially when you get downtime. I could just pass out seeing the flame flicker with the lights off.

  Kellan Lutz

  Light, Flames, Downtime

  "Behind-the-Scenes (& Inside the Trailers) of New Moon!" by Dan Koday, Slide 5, www.seventeen.com. December 23, 2009.

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• For what is man's soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log.

  Selma Lagerlöf

  Men, Flames, Soul

  Selma Lagerlöf (1928). “The general's ring”

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• Often I have found that the one thing that can save is the thing which appears most to threaten ... one has to go down into what one most fears and in that process ... comes a saving flicker of light and energy that, even if it does not produce the courage of a hero, at any rate enables a trembling mortal to take one step further.

  Laurens van der Post

  Hero, Light, Steps

  Laurens Van Der Post (1994). “Feather Fall: An Anthology”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• Journalists should be people in whom there is at least a flicker of hope.

  Paul Simon

  People, Should, Journalist

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• The only indication of the passage of time lies in the heavens, the subtle shift of the moon. So Peeta begins pointing it out to me, insisting I acknowledge its progress and sometimes, for just a moment I feel a flicker of hope before the agony of the night engulfs me again.

  Suzanne Collins

  Lying, Moon, Night

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.442, Scholastic Inc.

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• She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.

  Frank Deford

  Photography, Memories, Eye

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• I don’t smoke, although it looks fantastic in films. But I light matches on those thinking blank nights when I crawl my route out onto the roof of the garage and the sky while my parents sleep innocent and the lonely cars move sparse on the faraway streets, when the pillow won’t stay cool and the blankets bother my body no matter how I move or lie still. I just sit with my legs dangling and light matches and watch them flicker away.

  Daniel Handler

  Lonely, Lying, Moving

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.29, Egmont UK

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• When I’m running, there’s always this split second when the pain is ripping through me and I can hardly breathe and all I see is color and blur—and in that split second, right as the pain crests, and becomes too much, and there’s a whiteness going through me, I see something to my left, a flicker of color […]—and I know then, too, that if I only turn my head he’ll be there, laughing, watching me, and holding out his arms. I don’t ever turn my head to look, of course. But one day I will. One day I will, and he’ll be back, and everything will be okay. And until then: I run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Running, Pain, Color

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• Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Birthday, Self, Years

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• The sunshine filtered in through the billowing white curtains. Tatiana knew there would be only an instant, a brief flicker of time that bathed her with the possibilities of the day. In a moment it would all be gone. And in a moment it was. Still...that sun streaking through the room, the distant rumble of buses through the open window, the slight wind. This was the part of Sunday that Tatiana loved most: the beginning.

  Paullina Simons

  Sunshine, Sunday, White

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• So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is the truth. "I'm confessing that I don't know if I'm ready for this." "What is 'this'?" "Being open. Being hurt. Liking. Not being liked. Seeing the flicker on. Seeing the flicker off. Leaping. Falling. Crashing.

  David Levithan

  Hurt, Fall, Ready

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• My "heart". Does that pitiful organ still represent anything? It lies motionless in my chest, pumping no blood, serving no purpose, and yet my feelings still seem to originate inside its cold walls. My muted sadness, my vague longing, my rare flickers of joy. They pool in the center of my chest and seep out of there, diluted and faint, but real.

  Isaac Marion

  Wall, Lying, Real

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• the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

  Estela Portillo Trambley

  Past, Long, Happened

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• Most kids come home from school. They don't go to their TVs first. They go to the Internet. They check their emails, or some blogs, or some sites. Then they go watch TV. Other people are at work all day 9-5 in front of a computer. They see certain clips. We're not going to hide the fact that people use the Internet. We're going to try to be as interactive as possible with our fans. I'm currently on Twitter and Facebook and Flicker and Dig. I'm on all that stuff.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Home, School, Kids

  "Jimmy Fallon Dishes on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. February 20, 2009.

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