Zoe immediately started flapping

“Realizing how neglected my education in the kitchen had been, she immediately started my cooking lessons. I”

— N.T. Alcuaz

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