Fluttering Quotes

80 quotes by 68 authors

It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on… — Ben Brantley
The dragon-fly is dancing,â€” Is on the water glancing, She flits about with nimble wing, The flickering, fluttering, restless thing. Besotted chafers all admire Her… — Heinrich Heine
The mind is the most capricious of insects â€” flitting, fluttering. — Virginia Woolf
How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you â€” you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the… — Katherine Mansfield
I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks. — Jeanette Winterson
I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that… — Bill Moyers
There is a thing, like a bird, weak and fluttering within my chest, i cradle it and care for it as anyone should an injured… — Gabriel Macht
Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we… — Walter Darby Bannard
Sometimes goldfinches one by one will drop From low hung branches; little space they stop; But sip, and twitter, and their feathers sleek; Then off… — John Keats
The elusive nature of love... it can be such a fleeting thing. You see it there and it's just fluttering and it's gone. — Mick Jagger
There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the… — Kate Chopin
What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it… — Milan Kundera
Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything I wanted to know--and everything I had to know. By… — Haruki Murakami
His whole body was completely still, except the wings, which were still fluttering a little, like when someone dies. That's when he finally understood that… — Etgar Keret
The space that I can call mine.. is so small that my ideas have become small. I am like a caterpillar in a cocoon of… — Audrey Niffenegger
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the… — Emily Bronte
Synchronize watches at oh six hundred' says the infantry captain, and each of his huddled lieutenants finds respite from fear in the act of bringing… — Richard Yates
Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening… — Daniel Woodrell

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