Hilary Mantel

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.

English Writer

Elisabetta Canalis

Sometimes when I flick through a magazine and see these thin models I'm left wondering what effect they can have on an insecure person. But I say to girls: forget what you see in the magazines, that is a world which has nothing to do with reality; think of it as a cartoon.

Italian Actress

Jay Baruchel

I'm a massive movie nerd. That being said, I could retire tomorrow because I wrote this movie 'Goon' and it came out, and it connected and it's a wonderful flick that I think is beautiful and then it had this wonderful life and it means a lot to a lot of people.

Canadian Actor

George R. R. Martin

Whenever I switch from one character to another, there's always a few days where I really struggle because I'm changing voices and I'm changing ways of looking at the world. I'm not just flicking a switch; it's harder process than that.

American Author

Tad Williams

I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandwiches,' and that's where they still are. I suspect it's at least in part because they're easy to eat while reading.

American Writer

Anushka Sharma

I would love to do a chick flick sometime soon, a film with strong female characters - when I say strong, I don't mean that they are changing the world, but just be real women.

Indian Actress

Shelley Duvall

When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.

American Actress

Joe Taslim

It feels so good to be able to be part of an action flick like 'The Raid' and to read the rave reviews in a number of film festivals.

Indonesian Actor

Omari Hardwick

If I could remake any Eighties project, it would be less an action flick than a character-driven drama with a rich story to tell.

American Actor

Amy Pascal

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

American Businesswoman

Use 'flick' to describe an abrupt motion often done without much thought.

Sudden Action

'Flick' often implies the movement requires little strength or energy.

Minimal Effort

Suggest 'flick' as a casual, informal way to refer to watching a movie.

Casual Suggestion

'Flick' can classify a movie genre informally, like 'chick flick'.

Informal Genre

When used as a verb, 'flick' often refers to a quick physical gesture.

Physical Gesture

You can describe an action that's done at irregular intervals with 'flick'.

Irregular Frequency

Using 'flick' can convey quickly looking through content, not reading deeply.

Quick Glance

'Flick through' suggests brief or fleeting attention to the content.

Brevity of Attention

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 when you flick the switch. And piezoelectric devices may become even more common since electricity is in high demand and mechanical energy is abundant. There are already train stations that use passengers' footsteps to power the ticket gates and displays and a dance club where piezoelectricity helps power the lights.

How to squeeze...

 In this case, the most powerful force for good is regulation, the rules that can restrict the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from power plants, and make energy companies around the world wary of what they put into the air. Until then, every time you turn on a screen or flick a light switch,

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 The arm is extended below the head. The head is held in line with the spine, so that you use strategic water pressure to raise your legs up -- very important, especially for people with lower body fat. Here is an example of the stroke. So you don't kick. But you do use a small flick.

Smash fear, learn...

 yeah dear that's a bad knockback i think you need a thick skin to be a teaser all right so we've got jenna coming to us she's very excited that there's a boy in her midst she's on here all right you can see that very typical hiccuping ear flicking

The 'George Clooney' Of...

 and her long akkad hair and her newly acquired goat skin skirts and her mother's teaching her that when she sees the man that she admires she has to flick her long hair over his shoulder to tell him that she's the woman he needs

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 B, why haven't the chimpanzees flicked the off switch to humanity, or the Neanderthals? They certainly had reasons. We have an off switch, for example, right here. The reason is that we are an intelligent adversary;

What happens when our...

 flicked with the law I hope they will inspire vulnerable women and men all over the world that they too may be change makers that's an idea worth spreading thank you

Creating second chances...

 snake t'en as you ingest your booty you reveal the most impressive bags of any snake in the world two inches long and capable of flicking

Gaboon Adder vs. Rat PIPE...

 Aaaa Alright, hand flick. I know I did not raise a wrist

Flick

A quick, sharp movement.

Often appears as...

A movie or film.

Often appears as...

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To move with a quick, sharp movement.

Often appears as...

To look quickly through a book, magazine, etc.

Often appears as...

Sudden Action

Minimal Effort

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