Flashings Quotes

#1. Is, then, the crown too heavy that I wear? This Iron Crown of Lombardy. Yet it is bright with many a gem; I, the wearer, see not its far flashings; but darkly feel that I wear that, that dazzling confounds. 'Tis Iron - that I know - not gold.

Herman Melville

#2. A true book is like a net, and words are the mesh. The nature of the mesh matters relatively little. What matters is the live catch the fisherman draws up from the depths of the sea, the flashings of silver that we see gleam within the net.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#3. Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

Grace Paley

#4. What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#5. There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

Gore Vidal

#6. There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Joseph Conrad

#7. The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

Barney Frank

#8. Love's too precious to be lost,
A little grain shall not be spilt.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#9. WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.

John Medina

#10. Mostly I couldn't bear ... the paltry notion that memory was all that eternal life really meant, and I spent too much time wondering where people got the fortitude or delusion to keep on moving past the static dead.

Gail Caldwell

#11. This has been one of the more comedic aspects of this 72 hours - watching a cavalcade of extremely wealthy pundits, editorialists and political operatives from New York and Washington tell me how rural Americans won't stand for this.

Josh Marshall

#12. He was fingering his great horn.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#13. I know I walk a fine line between being a respected actor and being what they call a sex symbol.

Eva Mendes

#14. We still should have enough time to reach Rome."
Hazel scowled. "When you say should have enough ... "
Leo shrugged. "How do you feel about barely enough?"
Hazel put her face in her hands for a count of three. "Sounds about typical for us.

Rick Riordan