Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that.
You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the Sunset.
No one had much faith in me because I was so young. They imagined a little brat with a flash-in-the-pan single. It was inevitable. . . Thankfully, I proved people wrong.
My books come to me in images, and sometimes the image is at the beginning of the book, and sometimes it's simply a flash somewhere in the middle.
Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.
We're in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people's musical taste.
Being good isn't just about being dextrous and being flash. Being good is about being an all-round contributor in the great world of music.
If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.
You're barely even wearing a shirt! What are you going to do if a mugger jumps out at you, flash them?
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.
I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.
My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.
Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.
In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.
If it's a flash it's been an awfully long flash. I've been around for 20 years in one of the largest media and political markets in the country, so I'd call it more of a slow burn.