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Letter "F" » flickering
«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 last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie ''answers'' questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.»
Author: Gore Vidal
| Keywords:
a trillion, cathode-ray tube, cathode, cathode ray, countrymen, flickering, irrelevant, nightmare, Out of Control, ray, resolutely, stare, trillion, trillions, tube, V-J Day
«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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