Flapping Quotes

37 quotes by 36 authors

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain… — Cate Blanchett
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds… — H. L. Mencken
It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together,… — Mark Twain
Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten… — D. H. Lawrence
A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did. — Robert Jordan
I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by… — Louis Pierre Mouillard
For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It… — Hans Blix
Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterflyâ€™s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other. — Steve Aylett
I want you to notice nature, how geese are in flight and they form a V in a leadership roleâ€¦The lead goose, when he gets… — Judy Bonds
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that… — Henry David Thoreau
It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching,… — Lewis Thomas
Flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco duck. — Rick Dees
If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then… — Chanakya
History is often the tale of small momentsâ€”chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidenceâ€”that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse… — Scott Anderson
Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around. — E L Konigsburg
Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails… — Billy Collins
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. You Never Can… — Christopher Paul Curtis
Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my… — Rick Riordan

Who Wrote These Flapping Quotes

36 authors contributed a total of 37 Flapping Quotes, led by these top contributors: