Flickering Flame

Famous quotes containing the words flickering and/or flame:

    “The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie “answers” questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.”
    —Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    “The flame is not as bright to itself as it is to those it illuminates: so too the sage.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)