“I discovered in nature the non utilitarian delights that I sought in art. Both were a form of magic, both were a… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Growing up, I was the champion of spiders and moths in my house, catching and releasing them for my mother at great… — John L. Monk Copy Share Image
People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures," replied Estella, with a glance towards him, "hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and… — Conrad Hall Copy Share Image
“Like two moths clumsily bumping together, with no more weight than that, their lips touched. Then before they knew how it happened,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I’ve always preferred moths to butterflies. They aren’t flashy or cocky; they mind their own business and just try to blend in… — Kayla Krantz Copy Share Image
Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Moths," repeats Will. "You're afraid of moths?" "Not just a cloud of moths," she says, "like...a swarm of them. Everywhere. All those… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
What did moths bump into before the electric light bulb was invented? Boy, the lightbulb really screwed the moth up didn't it?… — Bill Hicks 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
“A moth is such a simple machine in the animal world - the go-kart to the modern car - and it takes… — Poppy Adams Copy Share Image
He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It was then that I could feel that the moths in him, with their wings so paper-thin, will never be near enough… — Ava Dellaira Copy Share Image
“I was, a near grown man, sat in his dank, dark and rickety digs, feverishly hovering about the glare of a computer… — Tom Conrad Copy Share Image
At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white.… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One voyage to the East and a man could live as rich as a lord until the end of his days. When… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And from the phlox and mignonette Rich attars drift on every hand; And when star-vestured twilight comes The pale moths weave a… — Clinton Scollard Copy Share Image
No matter how dark the room gets I can always see. It looks emptier when I put the lights on so I… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
Moths are okay. Actually, moths don't bother me near as much as, say, spiders do. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
Moths like me die by the thousands every minute. Her work goes on all the same. Glory unto Mother! — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
People fail you, children disappoint you, thieves break in, moths corrupt, but an Order of the British Empire goes on for ever. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Butterflies, as if unaware that darkness is no impediment to love, are playing the primordial game with light.” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of… — Saib Tabrizi Copy Share Image
Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie… — Bhartrhari Copy Share Image
Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats… — Menander Copy Share Image
Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird… — Bob Kane Copy Share Image
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the… — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
![“Then your fingers moved down to my chin. You pushed it up with your thumb to look at me, almost like you were studying me in the artificial lights above my head. And, I mean, you really looked at me … with eyes like two stars. [...] And I had wings fluttering away inside me all right. Big fat moth…” quote by Lucy Christopher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/fef/lucy-christopher-4978_artificial-light_then-your-fingers-moved-down-to-my-chin_1483412.jpg)
