Flitting Quotes

28 quotes by 25 authors

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more.… — John L. Bates
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank clothed with many plants of many kinds with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting… — Charles Darwin
His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura… — William S. Burroughs
No other art-mediumâ€“neither painting nor poetryâ€“can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can. When the lights go down in… — Ingmar Bergman
Those dreams that on the silent night intrude, and with false flitting shapes our minds delude ... are mere productions of the brain. And fools… — Jonathan Swift
Swarmers run the risk of skittering like water bugs on the surface of life. By being quickly and constantly connected, they can avoid deep contact… — Joel Garreau
Once Chuang Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know… — Zhuangzi
And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting... — Edgar Allan Poe
A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me. — Rabindranath Tagore
The mind is the most capricious of insects â€” flitting, fluttering. — Virginia Woolf
I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be… — Mark Twain
If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around. — Nicole Kidman
It's hard to tell / if we close our eyes or if night / opens in us other starred eyes, / if it burrows into… — Pablo Neruda
Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are… — Haruki Murakami
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.… — Jerry Spinelli
The child had indeed shut up but all the questions that had accumulated on his tongue circulated in his mouth, moved through the passages of… — Elif Safak
And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes… — Edgar Allan Poe
She would fain have caught at the skirts of that departing time, and prayed it to return, and give her back what she had too… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done. — Jerome Robbins
I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no, no! — Jane Welsh Carlyle

Who Wrote These Flitting Quotes

25 authors contributed a total of 28 Flitting Quotes as follows: