Surpriseflash Quotes & Sayings

He lifted his lips away and looked over me with glassy blue eyes. I love you so much it scares me sometimes. No ... it scares me most of the time. — Raine Miller

You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself — Ludwig Wittgenstein

We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.
pg vi — Michael Ben Zehabe

Life is our dictionary — Ralph Waldo Emerson

All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them. — Umberto Eco

With a sinking heart, I realize that the man in bed with me is too large and unruly to be my boyfriend. What have I done? — Amy Avanzino

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability. — Annette Bening

Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed? — Abraham Coles

Reading brings knowledge and knowledge is power; therefore reading is power. The power to know and learn and understand . . . but also the power to dream. Stories inspire us to reach high, love deep, change the world and be more than we ever thought we could. Every book allows us to dream a new dream. — Emma Chase

Reading about how i live, you might assume i am some kind of psychopath, the sort of beast that must be locked away from society. But the truth is that I'm not tat different from you. Not very different at all.
And that should scare the hell out of you — Carolee Dean

[God desires] not that He may say to them, "Look how mighty I am, and go down upon your knees and worship," for power alone was never yet worthy of prayer; but that He may say thus: "Look, my children, you will never be strong but with my strength. I have no other to give you. And that you can get only by trusting in me. I can not give it you any other way. There is no other way." — George MacDonald

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation. — Wilfred Burchett

The four most influential moderns: Darwin, Marx, Freud, and (the productive) Einstein were scholars but not academics. It has always been hard to do genuine - and no perishable - work within institutions — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Mandarin is gonna be the language in 15 to 20 years. — Stephon Marbury

No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist. — Eric Maisel