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«Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.»
Author: Hodding Carter
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
flash, in darkness, lighting-up, lightning, lights, loud, loud noise, television news
«To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.»
Author: John Andrew Holmes
| About:
Beauty,
Poetry,
Reading
| Keywords:
apprehend, apprehended, apprehending, beautifully, flash
«To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.»
Author: Arnold Bennett
| Keywords:
brain dead, flash, grasps, insight, moment of truth, previously, serves, transient
«No chains can bind it, and no cell enclose:Swifter than light, it flies from pole to pole,And, in a flash, from earth to heaven it goes!»
Author: William Lloyd Garrison
(Abolitionist, Activist, Journalist)
| Keywords:
cell, chains, enclose, enclosed, encloses, enclosing, flash, in a flash, pole, poles, swifter
«This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.»
«One Flash of It within the Tavern caught / Better than in the Temple lost outright.»
Author: Edward Fitzgerald
| Keywords:
flash
«Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
flash, lightest, precisely, rustle, rustles, rustling, softest, The Lizard
«To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
achievement, composition, compositions, condense, condensed, difficulty, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, express, flash, flashed, flashing, glittered, glittering, ideas, in a flash, luminous, ought, page, paper, paragraph, paragraphing, paragraphs, prize, prizing, rank, ranked, rankest, ranking, rare, reduced, sentence, sentenced, sentencing, squandered, squandering, squanders, worthy