“A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food. — Hugh Casson Copy Share Image
“The butterflies I get every time we’re together, are flapping their wings as fast as a hummingbird’s.” — Ashley Wilcox Copy Share Image
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Hoverboarding looks so fun, like being a bird. But actually doing it is hard work." Shay shrugged. "Being a bird's probably hard… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.” — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“The gaping trunk looked like the mouth of a village idiot who was explaining that he didn't know anything about anything.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
C-3PO is flappable [in Star Wars]. [Kaytoo is] very unflappable compared to C-3PO, who is just flapping all over the place. — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers.… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I want you to notice nature, how geese are in flight and they form a V in a leadership role…The lead goose,… — Judy Bonds Copy Share Image
If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a yawn of fire from… — Francis Thompson Copy Share Image
But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals… — Maurice Wilkes Copy Share Image
I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“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… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
I was awakened at midnight by some heavy, low-flying bird, probably a loon, flapping by close over my head, along the shore.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Descendants of pigeons once fed by Keats, Byron, George Sand, Chopin and many other famous lovers are still being fed, and the… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
“The unhinged jaw of a nepatrox mouth—with the wide flaps to either side flapping away—greeted him through the window. The beast had… — Jennifer Foehner Wells Copy Share Image
Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on… — Steve Aylett Copy Share Image
Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the… — Guy Maddin Copy Share Image