We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping…

“I don't begrudge you my company, my darling. We must all make do with what rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow…

— angela carter

I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not…

— Louis Aragon

“A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another.…

— Stephen Hawking

An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he…

— Anonymous

“Like I could take a nap at 4:15 p.m. and then I'll wake up twenty minutes later and have absolutely no clue where I…

— Michael Showalter

“The unhinged jaw of a nepatrox mouth—with the wide flaps to either side flapping away—greeted him through the window. The beast had climbed up…

— Jennifer Foehner Wells

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

— Lauren Oliver

I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore. So, turning…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

— Steve Aylett

Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze,…

— Banana Yoshimoto

From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in…

— Paul Laffoley

It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run…

— Mark Twain

But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads as they…

— Mary Oliver

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

— Anonymous