Life Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“There were frogs all right, thousands of them. Their voices beat the night, they boomed and barked and croaked and rattled. They sang to…

— John Steinbeck

“Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle.…

— A.J. Orde

“the thick stream of air hauled toward the summits first the great horses of noise reared against the sky then sluggishly the great limp…

— Aimé Césaire

“There were rockets like a flock of scintillating birds singing with sweet voices. There were green trees with trunks of dark smoke: their leaves…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“A bird cried jubilation. In that moment they lived long. All minor motions were stilled and only the great ones were perceived. Beneath them…

— Sheri S. Tepper

“Far outside the city the tree frogs were calling her, and the deep, rhythmic pulse of their voices set the blood flow to her…

— Ann Patchett

“He threw up the conkers into the air in his great happiness. In the tree above him they disturbed a roosting crow, which erupted…

— Sebastian Faulks

“They went together to the pond. The frogs, frozen by the movement, sat still. Fourteen golden eyes like nuggets gleamed unwinking from the margin.…

— Enid Bagnold

“I spent six hours becoming one with a shrubbery last night. There were three cloudbursts and a rain of small and very confused frogs”

— Charles Stross

“Around them, sky and air wove the ancient song of the meeting place of earth and sea—wave-rush on the shore, gulls mewing and sobbing.…

— Harper Fox

“But they hushed, all at once and quite abruptly, when he stood still at center stage, his arms straight out from his shoulders, and…

— Denis Johnson

“It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle