They trekked out along the crescent sweep of beach, keeping to the firmer sand below the tidewrack. They stood, their clothes flapping… — Cormac McCarthy 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time,… — Scott Anderson 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
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
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
It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free. — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins. — Karen Elizabeth Gordon Copy Share Image
Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension… — Louis Pierre Mouillard Copy Share Image
For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in… — Hans Blix Copy Share Image
