...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it. - Theodor Adorno
Most of the bad guys in the real world don't know that they are bad guys. You don't get a flashing warning sign that you're about to damn yourself. It sneaks up on you when you aren't looking. - Jim Butcher
Seems like the world is spinning smooth without a bump or squeak except when love comes in. Then the whole machine just quits like a loud load of wash on imbalance--the buzzer singing to high heave, the danger light flashing. - Sandra Cisneros
Swiftly the brain becomes an enchanted loom, where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern-always a meaningful pattern-though never an abiding one. - Charles Sherrington
I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came. - Jennifer Elisabeth
True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked. - Erich Segal
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory. - Betty Smith
It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the slow smile with lips that can conjure your heart under the hills for a hundred years. It’s not that they’re small. It’s that we’re so far away. - Neil Gaiman