Flashes Of Brilliance Quotes

#1. So it turns out that late-night flashes of brilliance often look a little less brilliant in the bright light of morning.

Stacey Kade

#2. If he was aware of anything beyond the fight, it was of an absence, a lack that persisted. The flashes of brilliance, the insouciant sword work, the bright presence at his side was instead a gap, half filled by Nikandros's steadier, more practical style.

C.S. Pacat

#3. Wickedness is weakness.

John Milton

#4. To the less privileged it was this arbitrariness that made the regime's power feel so oppressive. There were no clear principles or regulations which enabled the individual to challenge authority or the state.

Orlando Figes

#5. I am about to learn what it's like to live here.

David Berman

#6. I know only one method of operation: to be as honest with others as I am with myself.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#7. All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.

James Jones

#8. Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows.
Angels and Demons p. 484

Dan Brown

#9. For God's sake, madam, when you write to me, talk of yourself; there is nothing I so much desire to hear of; talk a great deal of yourself, that she who I always thought talked best may speak upon the best subject.
Alexander Pope to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Michael Kelahan

#10. Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest,
never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead is where we truely belong.

Alex Gaskarth

#11. It's strange, but when I have to speak in front of an audience, I find it more comfortable to use my far-from-perfect English than Japanese. I think this is because when I have to speak seriously about something in Japanese I'm overcome with the feeling of being swallowed up in a sea of words.

Haruki Murakami