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  • He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clouds of dust, in hummingbirds, dragonflies, and luminous moths - but so perfect was his equilibrium that he felt no fear. He was vast, he was many, he was dynamic, he was eternal.

    Clouds   Dust   Perfect  
    Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.227, Bantam
  • A rhododendron bud lavender-tipped. Soon a glory of blooms to clash with the cardinals and gladden the hummingbirds!

    Lavender   Bud   Glory  
  • I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

    Snakes   Earth   Bunnies  
    "Interview Showdown: Ted Turner 1, Publicist 0" by Michelle Kung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.
  • Much still remains to be learned about his sex life because the Hummingbird is quicker than the eye.

    Sex   Eye   Hummingbirds  
    "The Hummingbird". "How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes". Book by Will Cuppy, 1931.
  • We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows this. The voyage into the interior is all that matters, Whatever your ride. Sometimes I can't sit still for all the asininities I read. Give me the hummingbird, who has to eat sixty times His own weight a day just to stay alive. Now that's a life on the edge.

  • We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that we launched today called Hummingbird has been a great leap forward.

  • furious flutter awakened hummingbird heart hello hello love

    Megan McCafferty (2007). “Second Helpings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.354, Broadway Books
  • The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.

    Angel   Garden   Hands  
    Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.89, Bantam
  • Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

    Girl   Dance   Running  
  • And in time it will be as though men had never come to this perfect corner of the world-never called it paradise on earth, never despoiled it with their dream factories; and in the golden hush of the afternoon all that will be heard will be the flittering of dragonflies, and the murmur of hummingbirds as they pass from bower to bower, looking for a place to sup sweetness.

  • Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

    Memories   Wings   Brain  
    Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.29, Simon and Schuster
  • Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that jolts your heart, sets it beating apace, an anxious hiccuping of hummingbird wings

    Love You   Heart   Wings  
    Ellen Hopkins (2009). “Tricks”, p.21, Simon and Schuster
  • Regularity chauvinists are people who insist that you have got to do the same thing every time, every day, which drives some of us nuts. Attention Deficit Disorder - we need a more positive term for that. Hummingbird mind, I should think.

    Thinking   Nuts   People  
    "The Curse of Xanadu" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 01, 1995.
  • Quick as a hummingbird...she darts so eagerly, swiftly, sweetly dipping into the flowers of my heart.

  • When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.

    Believe   Miracle   Noses  
  • I love devastating movies, documentaries and hummingbirds (yes, in that order).

  • My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it's operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance--this is why people tell me secrets--my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in color or intensity or quality of sound.

    Pain   Color   Wings  
  • Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

    Flower   Air   Bird  
    Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “First Thought Best Thought”, p.37, Shambhala Publications
  • In Mexico people wear hummingbird amulets around their necks to show they are searching for love. Here people pretend that they aren’t. Searching.

    People   Mexico   Amulets  
    Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Missing Angel Juan”, p.12, Harper Collins
  • Shortly before she died Janis Joplin gave me the Gibson Hummingbird she recorded "Me and Bobbby McGee" on ... Janis was a good guitar player, for her purposes .. she just wanted to play along with her songs, and she had a real pure and nice style for that.

    Music   Song   Real  
  • Across the downs a hummingbird Came dipping through the bowers, He pivoted on emptiness To scrutinize the flowers.

    Nathalia Crane (1925). “Lava Lane, and Other Poems”
  • We’re constantly being bombarded by problems that we face and sometimes we can get completely overwhelmed. [But] we should always feel like a hummingbird. I may feel insignificant, but I don’t want to be like the other animals watching the planet go down the drain. I’ll be a hummingbird, I’ll do the best I can.

  • He has the attention span of a hummingbird.

    Christopher Moore (2009). “The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror”, p.153, Hachette UK
  • Flutter like a hummingbird, Dive like an eagle, Ain't no bird that's my equal. - Twilight

    Twilight   Eagles   Bird  
  • I'm more of a culture hummingbird.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird

    Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1203, Penguin
  • The first and most important thing for me is that people feel how beautiful fashion can be and that it is not just a case of well-made and expensive clothes. Fashion is so rich and it is such an amazing occupation because we can draw on so many different sources of inspiration - just as a hummingbird feeds on a multitude of flowers.

  • I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

  • My mother's eyes were large and brown, like my son's, but unlike Sam's, they were always frantic, like a hummingbird who can't quite find the flower but keeps jabbing around.

    Mother   Flower   Eye  
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