When we had the ‘flash crash’ in 2010, where the price of some stocks briefly fell to zero, high-frequency trading played a big role in that event.
Adapted from the novel by L. Ron Hubbard, who cranked out sci-fi pulp by the cubic ton, ‘Battlefield Earth’ has the musty feel of the days when the genre’s highlight was Flash Gordon.
If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn’t last very long. I can’t go to a museum – I’ll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of… it’s sort of like a domino effect.
It’s funny I’m talking to ‘Rolling Stone’ right now, because back then, it was like, ‘Punk rock? Put it back. It’s just a flash in the pan.’
With ‘The Flash’ in existence, there’s no real compelling reason for us to do superpowers on ‘Arrow.’
I don’t go for the flash and panache.
In the past, NASDAQ has defended flash orders.
I believe in myself and maybe people take that as cocky and flash but in this game you have to believe in yourself or you won’t get anywhere.
‘Star Trek’ speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow – it’s not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.
When I heard The Beatles, that was my turning point. They were like my mentors. You know, the funny thing about that, when I heard ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand,’ at first I said these guys are like a flash in the pan. But the second album, I had to take all that back. John Lennon – one of the greatest writers in the world.
My absolute favorite growing up was ‘Super Friends.’ The assemblage of so many mighty heroes in one place was, to me, mind-blowing. It was Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Flash, Aquaman, and then sometimes Hawkman and some other, lesser heroes.
Here’s a news flash: I hate to lose! Just watch any televised poker broadcast and you can see that’s the case.
I liked The Trickster because he was The Flash’s Joker. I liked Solomon Grundy, too.
I believe in myself and maybe people take that as cocky and flash but in this game you have to believe in yourself or you won’t get anywhere.
Here’s a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That’s no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.
My wife could give a rip about comic books, but she loves ‘Arrow,’ and she loves ‘The Flash,’ and she likes them because of the characters.
Flash photography can be horrible. In the hands of an expert who knows how to bounce all that searing bright light in the right direction, it may make an impossible picture workable.
Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone.
I have died in so many spectacular ways, and I remember shooting them all, too. I imagine all those deaths will flash in front of me when I’m on my death bed, faced with the real thing.
Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.
Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don’t just flash by but deserve some reflection.
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
We like to keep Mehr’s pictures little private because everyone’s pictures start coming on social media and then there is so much pressure on the kids, the paps flash in their eyes and I am not comfortable with it.
We’re in a period where society seems very attracted to flash, and that seeps into people’s musical taste.
Extreme precipitation is likely to increase with rising temperatures because of growing atmospheric humidity, leading to a higher risk of flash flooding nationwide.
When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they’re not gonna see nothin’ but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.
Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. News flash, ladies and gents: Space is nearly empty. It’s a sterile vacuum, filled mostly with the junk we put up there.
Once people see Bitcoin and how it works, they realise this isn’t just a flash in the pan.
True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
It blows my mind when they call me the O.G. Flash.
I originally went up for a role on the spinoff show, ‘Legends of Tomorrow,’ and that led me to audition for Wally West in ‘The Flash’. I enjoy auditioning in general, but this was a particularly fun process because it was so unexpected.
People talk about the difference between radio acting, TV acting and stage acting, but I think it’s all the same. For instance, when I played Vultan in ‘Flash Gordon,’ I put as much energy into it as I would with ‘King Lear’ – it’s all part of the same thing.
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.
I carry Marc Jacobs Magic Marc’er eyeliner and Christian Dior red lipstick to amp up my look in a flash.
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
I want ‘Flash’ to reflect the world we live in.
I looked up at my mom, and I was like, ‘Well, Mom, uh, when you really think about it, C’s aren’t really that bad. C’s are average.’ And I’ve never seen my mom so upset, to this day. I just saw this flash of fire in her eyes, and she yelled, ‘Average? You are never allowed to be average, because you look like me.’
Steve Jobs was never going to let Flash on any Apple product again like that after in 1997 – he’s got a long memory – they said no and Bill Gates said yes.
When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch – they were formative for me. I also read ‘Flash Gordon’ when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I’d have been an imbecile.
Flash content is the most prolific content on the web today; it is the way people express themselves on the Internet.
Star Wars’ was derivative of ‘Buck Rogers’ and ‘Flash Gordon,’ wasn’t it?
I am always really respectful of anything that has the kind of longevity and fan base that something like DC Comics has and ‘The Flash’ series in particular has.
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
An art project, a hands-on science experiment, or a special field trip can transcend textbooks and flash cards. No one knows this better than those teaching students with autism.
The first day of shooting I walk up to Christopher Walken, and I said, Should I call you Mr. Walken or Chris? He goes, ‘Call me Flash.’
Do I envy Madonna’s body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you’re fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime’s work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!
When I first heard about ‘The Flash,’ I said, ‘No thanks.’ I thought I’d just be running around in a union suit.
I was looking at this picture of Brooke Shields at Studio 54 the other day. Everyone in the shot looks amazing because they have these black and white cameras with a flash. I think that’s what photographers should go back to.
I couldn’t do ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’ Ed said I was a flash in the pan, and he was right.
Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.
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.
Always remember this. Television, fame, money – listen, here is a news flash for America. Fame cannot remove your sin. And all of the money you ever amass cannot raise you from the dead.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
You can be poor, middle class, or rich – it doesn’t matter. The black card will still confer upon you an entire history of oppression, even if you’ve never been oppressed. Flash the black card, and most white people will cower.
In the battle of substance over flash, few to none of the Al Jazeera correspondents are recognizable to U.S. audiences. Many have foreign names and accents; none have best-selling books atop the list or can be heard pounding their shoes on the nightly infotainment podium.
How can you allow the trading companies to locate computers closer to exchanges and flash millions of bids to give an unfair advantage?… Even professionals are losing faith in some aspects of the system.
I read some Marvel, but I was more of a DC guy. Particularly the Flash, Barry Allen. I latched on to him because I felt like him. You thought to yourself, ‘Well, you can’t really be Superman.’ You couldn’t really be Batman – Batman was a really dark figure. I identified with Barry Allen’s hopefulness.
Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.
