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  • Flapping my arms I began to cluck, look at me, I'm the disco duck.

    Ducks   Dancing   Looks  
  • All that changing of plates and flapping of napkins while you wait 40 minutes for your food.

    Food   Waiting   Cooking  
  • We're all turkeys! Some of us are running around with our heads cut off, some of us are flapping our wings that hard we're close to flying. But nothing is an eagle bar God.

  • Rules and Things Number 63: Never, Ever Say Something Bad About Someone You Don't Know--Especially When You're Around a Bunch of Strangers. You Never Can Tell Who Might Be Kin to That Person or Who Might Be a Lip-Flapping, Big-Mouth Spy.

    Numbers   Spy   Mouths  
    Christopher Paul Curtis, Holt Rinehart & Winston (2002). “Bud, not Buddy: with connections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
  • I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

    Autumn   Winter   Long  
  • Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.

    D. H. Lawrence (2016). “Lady chatterleys lover”, p.167, D. H. Lawrence
  • But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

    Beach   Morning   Wall  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag
  • An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.

    Men   Artist   Self  
    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.466, Vintage
  • Her mind is a bird that's trapped inside her skull, flapping and thrashing, never breaking free.

    Skulls   Bird   Mind  
    Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.89, Simon and Schuster
  • Here in this ocean, in the midst of all this water, with the red flags on those distant buoys flapping in the sea breeze, I find myself unable to treat our house in Tokyo as anything but a dream.

    Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.104, Grove Press
  • I hold that in the flight of the soaring birds (the vultures, the eagles, and other birds which fly without flapping) ascension is produced by the skillful use of the force of the wind, and the steering, in any direction, is the result of skillful manoeuvres; so that by a moderate wind a man can, with an aeroplane, un- provided with any motor whatever, rise up into the air and direct himself at will, even against the wind itself.

    Men   Air   Eagles  
  • We all ended up somewhere with our various uncertain lives flapping about us in tatters and our pockets full of foreign coins.

  • Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet.

    Running   Morning   Taken  
  • A flapping tongue has killed more men than sudden storms ever did.

    Men   Storm   Tongue  
    Robert Jordan (2002). “The Dragon Reborn: Book Three of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.232, Macmillan
  • As those who have seen Jurassic Park will know, this means a tiny disturbance in one place, can cause a major change in another. A butterfly flapping its wings can cause rain in Central Park, New York. The trouble is, it is not repeatable. The next time the butterfly flaps its wings, a host of other things will be different, which will also influence the weather. That is why weather forecasts are so unreliable.

  • For some twenty years the window that opened at the end of the Cold War has been allowed to hang flapping in the wind. It is high time that the five nuclear-weapon states take seriously their commitment to negotiate toward nuclear disarmament.

    Hans Blix (2008). “Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters”, p.37, MIT Press
  • Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

  • If that moment had been a real thing, it would've been a butterfly, flapping and fluttering toward the sun.

    Real   Butterfly   Sun  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2009). “Shiver”, p.179, Scholastic Inc.
  • If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then the elephant has lost only the ornament of his head. The bees are quite happy in the lotus filled lake.

    Elephants   Lakes   Lust  
  • We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

    Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?

    Eye   Cells   Wind  
  • Good fences make good neighbors.

    "MendingWall" l. 25 (1914)
  • It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing, watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces.

    Lewis Thomas (1972*). “Aspects of Biomedical Science Policy”, p.3, National Academies
  • We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

    Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage
  • Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

    E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.102, Pushkin Press
  • From the time of Dante [Alighieri], when you have the Ptolemaic universe, you had God on the outside like a hypersphere, and then in the center you have the Earth, all the seven heavens and layers, and then you have the Mount of Purgatory and Hell right in the center, and here's Satan flapping his wings and he keeps making the lake of Cocytus ice so you can't get out. So, again, where Heaven and Hell are, who the hell knows that now?

    Ice   Wings   Lakes  
    Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com
  • A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

    Wind   Midnight   Tails  
    Billy Collins (2011). “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”, p.9, Random House
  • Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

    Running   Dog   Play  
    Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.950, Bantam
  • If he had his wits about him Bunny would surely keep his mouth shut; but now, with his subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat, there was no way to be sure of anything he might do.

    Skulls   Mind   Bats  
    Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.204, Vintage
  • I must confess that I and a few others are burdened with heavy responsibilities regarding the future of criticism. I am certainly, if not the inventor, then at least one of the first systematizers of an absurd critical practice that, as soon as it had peeked its beak out of the nest, flapping its new wet wings, took flight in the minds of the young, becoming a wild ox and sowing avant-garde literature with the mighty tomes of what might as well be called the abstract bear.

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