And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its…

“Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work." Shay shrugged. "Being a bird's probably hard work too.…

— Scott Westerfeld

“The butterflies I get every time we’re together, are flapping their wings as fast as a hummingbird’s.”

— Ashley Wilcox

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

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as sorrow.

— Fanny Burney

I cannot sleep - great joy is as restless as great sorrow.

— Fanny Burney

The sound of a million butterflies flapping their wings is indescribable. It's very heavenly.

— Louie Schwartzberg

“many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of the back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and…

— H.P. Lovecraft

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