Flaps Quotes

#1. Take any two-year-old through a car wash and their skulls are blown. FLAPS! FOAM! ROLLING THINGS! It's the closest they'll ever get to being inside a working spaceship.

Drew Magary

#2. flaps and buttons. She concealed her gray hair

Victor Hugo

#3. Time flaps on the mast--

Virginia Woolf

#4. With a squeak she flaps her bat shawl and runs. A burly rough pursues with booted strides. He stumbles on the steps, recovers, plunges into gloom. Weak squeaks of laughter are heard, weaker.)_ THE BAWD: _(Her wolfeyes shining)_

James Joyce

#5. Because, visible through the slashed covers, the bone-deep wounds that crisscross the couple's bodies pump blood. Some of the flaps of skin resulting from glancing blows are like gills, breathing. Yet even as the cries die away, he carries on.

Mark Kirkbride

#6. Egwene didn't notice someone new entering the tent. Rand did, however, and he spun as the flaps parted and let in light. He frowned at the interloper.
His frown died as soon as he saw the person who entered.
Moiraine.

Robert Jordan

#7. In flight a bumblebee flaps its wings 200 times per second (which equals 12,000 rpm), roughly equivalent to the speed of a high-revving motorbike engine.

Dave Goulson

#8. His happiness stretched out its wings and gave a few flaps. He

Lauren Groff

#9. I wish I had flaps of extra skin connecting my arms & legs like a Flying Squirrel & then spend my days at the park jumping from tree to tree

Josh Stern

#10. You might be a redneck if your kids are going hungry tonight because you just had to have those Yosemite Sam mud flaps.

Jeff Foxworthy

#11. She didn't realize she was fiddling with the back of her earring until he took hold of her hand and pressed a kiss into her palm. Without a word, he pulled her into his lap, surrounded her with the two flaps of his corduroy jacket, and hugged her against him.

Becky Wade

#12. I had always thought that vaginas, with their flaps and folds, looked somehow unfinished.

David Burr Gerrard

#13. A little brown house sparrow swoops out of the rafters and lands on the tiles in front of her. Marie-Laure holds out an open palm. The sparrow tilts his head, considering. Then it flaps away. One month later she is blind.

Anthony Doerr

#14. It infuriated me that men could walk around feeling perfectly good about their appearance whether they had a unibrow, triple chin, or skin flaps hanging off their eyelids, but stunning women like Faidra felt the need to have an unblemished butthole. The world is insane. Not

Jennifer Coburn

#15. The cabbage white flies through the tailor's cheek. The tailor sinks his head. The cabbage white flies out of the back of the tailor's head, white and uncrumpled. Skinny Wilma flaps her handkerchief. The cabbage white flies through her forehead and into her head.

Herta Muller

#16. Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.

Johnny Rich

#17. The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It has about a meter wing span, and it flaps in three metric tons of mineral oil. And it is a so-called dynamically scaled fly.

Michael Dickinson

#18. If you want out of the box you hide in, then you need to crack open the flaps and bask in some sunlight.

Katie McGarry

#19. Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in
one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

Stephen Colbert

#20. Tell me everything it explains, he said when he could remember how to speak. Being forced to move moist flaps of meat in order to form the words felt sensual and obscene.

James S.A. Corey

#21. If toes had eyes, then I could see how my feet know where to go, but toes are blind. And how is it that my tongue speaks words it cannot hear? Because for all its eloquence, the tongue itself is deaf, and flaps in soundlessness.

Jane Roberts

#22. Chaos theory says that even a small change in initial conditions can lead to wildly unpredictable results. A butterfly flaps her wings now and a hurricane forms in the future.

Nicola Yoon

#23. I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.

Sylvia Plath

#24. Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.

Sharon Jones

#25. Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

George Will

#26. Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally acceptable.

Milton Sapirstein

#27. We do as we're told, because there is no other course we can take, but that does not always mean that the actions we carry through are the paths we would voluntarily walk.

Heather Lyons

#28. But it's not time that matters. It felt ... like a secret place just us two knew about.

David Mitchell

#29. Most of ideologies are not based on the individual - no matter what they say. There are these peoples' democracies, nationalism - they're all dictatorships. And I think any kind of dictatorship is bad for the individual.

Frank Capra

#30. Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.

Bill Joy

#31. ... I ignore the message from Jenna, who wants to talk about Kayla and what a bitch she is. I think she actually said "witch" in the voicemail, but if that's what she means, I don't see what a difference the vocabulary makes

Deb Caletti

#32. Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

Dawn Addams

#33. This is that rest this vain world lends,
To end in death that all things ends.

Samuel Daniel

#34. I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

Anais Nin

#35. After everything I've been through, the last thing I'm going to apologize for is my paranoia.

Richard Finney

#36. Where there is faith, fear cannot exist.

Radhanath Swami

#37. Yo momma's so ugly when people see her face they say "Hey,lady!It ain't Halloween yet!

Tony Glare

#38. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.

Zhuangzi