#flicker

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them. ↗

— George R. R. Martin

#actually #being #better #books #events

The art of cinema begins with scraping the chewing gum off the seats. ↗

— Theodore Roszak

#art

Happiness, for you we walk on a knife edge. To the eyes you are a flickering light, to the feet, thin ice that cracks; and so may no one touch you who loves you. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#edge #eyes #feet #flickering #happiness

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. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#becomes #beginning #caught #coals #fierce

I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp in a small Bengal village to the chandeliers of Delhi. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#changes #delhi #during #flicker #i

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#aim #bringing #century #flickering #highest

I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite. ↗

— Hal Sutton

#away #being #dynamite #energy #excited