Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The man doesn’t want me messing with it and, no offense, I wouldn’t anger him. I’ve seen what he can do and… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face… — Robin Olds Copy Share Image
Action is basically a reaction against loss of balance - a flailing of the arms to to regain one's balance. To dispose… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
And in the city on all sides, the howling of the Hounds rose in an ear-shattering, soul-flailing crescendo. The Lord of Death… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
We all know what flopping is when we see it. The stuff that you see is where guys aren't really getting hit… — Kobe Bryant Copy Share Image
Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
I fell into that kiss like Alice into Wonderland, headfirst and flailing, heart pounding the whole time. The world spun around me… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write songs. I didn't… — Juliana Hatfield Copy Share Image
If we Americans are to learn from our mistakes, from the flailing, ineffective way we, as a nation, conducted the war on… — David Oliver Relin Copy Share Image
The Fomorians skittered backward, away from me, looking justifiably confused. I mean, really, how many human women actually run to them? And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center. — Gary Allan Copy Share Image
I jump out of the boat [in The Lost World], and I'm trying to swim to the kid, and my boots fill… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One time you smash a bug with no mercy. Another time you find one helpless on his back with his legs flailing… — Charles Portis Copy Share Image
Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
That is the financial disclosures that is what's required by law, that's Donald Trump [done]. It's in the constitution. The president-elect hasn't… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image