“The butterflies I get every time we’re together, are flapping their wings as fast as a hummingbird’s.” — Ashley Wilcox 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
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. — Angela Carter 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
“A bird cannot fly upward if each wing is flapping in a different direction.” — Matshona Dhliwayo 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
But the owls themselves are not hard to find, silent and on the wing, with their ear tufts flat against their heads… — Mary Oliver 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
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free. — Lauren DeStefano 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
