Taboo

They didn't tell me what type of cancer I had. They didn't tell me what stage I was in. They just told me, 'Mr Gomez, you have cancer.' My life flashed before my eyes. I thought about my kids, I thought about my wife. Nothing prepares you for the shock of someone telling you you have that horrible disease.

American Musician

Dennis Haysbert

When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But with an independent, you get films that are really close to the writers' and directors' heart. Somehow it becomes a little deeper. A little more meat and not as much flash.

American Actor

Eric Massa

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

American Politician

Wilbur Smith

I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.

Novelist

Alex Kingston

If anyone out there wants me to play a Pre-Raphaelite character, I'd do it in a flash. That's what is so curious about my playing a modern doctor. It's not the sort of part I saw for myself when I began acting.

English Actress

Dave Pirner

I see my life flashing before me when I see people in the audience singing along to something I wrote in the '80s, and they're maybe standing next to someone who knows the more recent stuff.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

American Author

Leo Szilard

We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.

American Scientist

Burnie Burns

Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.

American Writer

Martin Scorsese

Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.

American Director

Used to describe actions that are noticeable because they happen very quickly and are meant to be seen.

Attention Grabbing

Indicates a very short duration of light, often used metaphorically for other quick actions.

Brief Illumination

Refers to light appearing abruptly, which can be startling or signalling something important.

Sudden Appearance

In photography, 'flash' means a burst of light from a camera to illuminate a dark scene.

Photography Context

'Flash' can mean to quickly show something to others, often to prove something or grab attention.

Quick Exhibition

Sometimes a flashed smile or gesture is used as a discreet way to communicate or flirt.

Subtle Invitation

The term conveys the rapidity of an action or decision, emphasizing its instantaneous nature.

Rapid Decision

Technical use of the word often relates to quickly updating or modifying electronic devices.

Technology Processes

In certain English dialects, 'flash' refers to specific geographical features, like a pool.

Localized Usage

 see them at all and then suddenly you'll get this flash of red and blue and they catch that tiny bit of light and they look absolutely stunning and then they just melt away and they're phantoms they just become invisible they're the deep calls that they make it's so perfectly adapted to that forest which is really really dense you can hear them a long way away you

Filming The World's...

 including one called string theory, are now telling us there could be countless other universes, built on different types of particles, with different properties, obeying different laws. Most of these universes could never support life, and might flash in and out of existence in a nanosecond, but nonetheless, combined

How many universes are...

 flash in overhead and make you jump sometimes land on a tree right beside but they're so so quick it's quite hard sometimes to get the camera on them and get them in focus before they're straight out again we've got one particular character called norbert he's a bit chubby than the others and he seems to like coming

Filming Flying Squirrels...

 In a flash, he realized that looking for answers at the extremes was a mistake. The middle way between luxury and poverty seemed wisest. And while meditating under a bodhi tree, the rest of the answer came to him. All of life abounds with suffering. It's caused by selfish craving

The five major world...

 was attacked from behind from my perspective I didn't see anything at all I just heard and felt this deep thud in the back as something smashed into the back of my head and I saw this flash of light similar to what you hear boxers described when they get knocked out and

How math saved my life PIPE...

 are now telling us there could be countless other universes built on different types of particles, with different properties, obeying different laws. Most of these universes could never support life, and might flash in and out of existence in a nanosecond.

Questions No One Knows...

 bit of red and yellow markings uh right above their head and so you really do have to look at the flash pattern and some other morphological characters to tell the species apart generally the habitat where we find photinus carolinas is in these low-lying

Watch: Fireflies Glowing...

 And the feedback for the P.A. system is no help at all. So now I present to you a challenge. So if you'd all close your eyes for just a moment, okay? And you're going to learn a bit of flash sonar. I'm going to make a sound.

Daniel Kish: How I use...

 Outside are events of unimaginable violence. Whole new forms of life are being created only to be wiped away. Millions of years are flashing by. But in here, it's always the same. Peace.

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 is bioluminescence a deep sea anglerfish flashes in the darkness the light is generated by bacteria that