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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.»
Author: Bruce Lee
(Actor)
| About:
Friendship,
Love,
Romance,
Wisdom
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«She glances at the photo, and the pilot light of memory flickers in her eyes.»
Author: Frank Deford
| About:
Memory,
Photography
| Keywords:
flicker, flickering, flickers, glances, photo, pilot, pilot light, The photo
«Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.»
«The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.»
Author: Nikola Tesla
(Engineer, Inventor)
| Keywords:
blaze, civilisation, feeble, flicker, flickering, flickers, increasing, likened, spark
«People find out I'm an actress and I see that 'whore' look flicker across their eyes.»
«The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as small, trivial, flat, in two banal dimensions, drained of color. Wasn't there something reassuring about it! -- that human beings were in fact merely images of a kind registered in one another's eyes and brains, phenomena composed of microscopic flickering dots like atoms. They were atoms -- nothing more. A quick switch of the dial and they disappeared and who could lament the loss?»
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
(Author)
| Keywords:
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«As a lamp in a spot sheltered from the wind does not flicker, this simile is used for the subdued mind of a yogi practicing meditation on Brahman.»
«At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.»
«Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
apartment, flicker, flickering, lofty, obscurity
«The little flickering part of his brain that was still sparking coherent thought through the fog of mind-numbing terror that filled Colon's head was telling him that he was so far out of his depth that the fish had lights on their noses»
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