The gentle fair on nervous tea relies, Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes; An inoffensive scandal fluttering round, Too rough to… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Handsome enough' is this Grim Reaper, Who can snuff all these 'brief candles,' every fluttering soul sucking the air, from this hall"… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day. — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind,… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
Why all this insistence on the senses? Because in order to convince your reader that he is THERE, you must assault each… — Ray Bradbury 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
When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another. — Edward Norton Lorenz Copy Share Image
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness. — Kazuya Minekura Copy Share Image
Don't wait for the muse. As I've said, he's a hardheaded guy who's not susceptible to a lot of creative fluttering. This… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image