Quotes About Fluttering

hovering in the air like a drunken moth.

To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a corn-field.

she could see Sylvie and her friends on the lawn below, their dresses fluttering like moths in the encroaching dusk.

So excited her wings were quivering.

I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.

It was weather for dreams; for little fluttering quests of the heart.

Youth's scorn and its revolt against the established order, youth's readiness for everything that is heroic, whether it is self-sacrifice or crime, its fiery seriousness and its unsteadiness—all this is nothing but its fluttering attempts to fly.

You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

A pink fluttering bird flew across her mind.

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 there might be more to life than bread and circuses.

she smiled when she spoke, consciously deepening her dimple and fluttering her bristly black lashes as swiftly as butterflies' wings.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

People were mulling around, skittering about like moths on a lightbulb. Then

The tires bore down, kicking up dust like an Arabian stampede. Elizabeth flipped off the car stereo. Out of the corner of my eye, I could tell that she was studying my profile. I wondered what she saw, and my heart started fluttering.

Creation, like love, is a seductive pursuit filled with uncertainty and fluttering heartbeats. (Report to Greco)

You can be very efficient with lyrics, and you can get the heart fluttering or soaring or make someone cry with a really amazing dance song.

One day we wake from sleep to wander through this tale of dreams with wings fluttering lighter than love free.

He felt a fluttering inside his chest that he mistook for an air pocket - probably left from when he pushed himself through the cage. He had no way of knowing that the fluttering was a single beat from the fleeting memory of a heart.

CLOVER (Think of Me) Fairies are attracted to clover, so if you come across a field of it, be on the watch for a fluttering of wings. But you might want to pick some quickly for your own protection, lest you be subject to a fairy enchantment.

Instead of being a single, downright, bluff piece of work of which no man need feel ashamed, our commonest deeds are set about with a fluttering and flickering of wings, a rising and falling of lights.

Just because I loves you– That's de reason why Ma soul is full of color Like de wings of a butterfly. Just because I loves you That's de reason why Ma heart's a fluttering aspen leaf When you pass by.

They had a game they would play, sitting at a coffeehouse. They would ask: How far away is the nearest strange attractor? Was it that rattling automobile fender? That flag snapping erratically in a steady breeze? A fluttering leaf? You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it, Shaw said, echoing Thomas S. Kuhn.

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