Quotes About Flitting

The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it is also nomadic in its dealings with other people.

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches

The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches

I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.

If the stars twinkled more than usual on any given night, it meant that the angels in heaven were happy and were flitting across the doors of heaven; and since stars were merely holes ventilating heaven, the twinkling came from the angels flitting past the holes that admitted air into the holy home of God.

Opinion is a flitting thing, but the truth outlasts the sun.

Opinion is a flitting thing. But truth outlasts the sun.

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sittingOn the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door.

You will either do so convincingly and well, or you won't. But at least you will be plugged in to the moment in the process. Not flitting just outside of it, trying to keep everything together like one of those little heel-snapping Sheltie dogs.

I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.

Her name and memory, after her death, flitted from mouth to mouth like swallows in summer, and in the winter they were gone.

He is flitting and hopping about in the lobby like a sparrow whose nest had just been blown down in a windstorm.

poetry is flitting butterfly words leaving inky spots on fragile papery wings

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

Siempre había mariposeado, sin ningún objeto fijo.

Vampires can run at an extra-fast speed, a magic kind of running, where they slip through space like eels through a net. They call it "flitting.")

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. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds, we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

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!

is an intense butterfly, flitting from focus to focus and giving each his undivided attention. It's flattering when it's you. Not so charming when it isn't.