Flurry Quotes

#1. In a flurry of sharp brocade coattails and gossamer gowns cut in the Neo-Baroque fashion, the crowd turns back to their conversations, the perfect epitome of what all Aristocrats are like - bored and quickly dissatisfied with the latest trends.

A.L. Davroe

#2. I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.

Clive Owen

#3. I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

Christine Lagarde

#4. He didn't need to touch me. His attention alone, recognizing my existence, send a flurry of sparks through my body.

Rebecca Donovan

#5. As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his unprotected leg and he yelped and clutched it. That was a mistake. The second barrage was entirely directed at his legs.

Hilari Bell

#6. If you in the morning
Throw minutes away,
You can't pick them up
In the course of a day.
You may hurry and scurry,
And flurry and worry,
You've lost them forever,
Forever and aye.

Anna Sewell

#7. Time must be slowed to a crawl to make sense of any scene of true chaos - to show the flurry of human action and reaction going off like multiple strings of firecrackers, all at once. Every

Joe Hill

#8. The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions. That way, no one is ever made uncomfortable. Any such awkward moments can always be dispelled with a flurry of pretend-punches.

Lynn Coady

#9. There were a few faint echoes from the common room two floors below, and a brief flurry of noise and movement, but this served only to emphasize my own isolation.

Diana Gabaldon

#10. A confident leader is like a duck. Above the water, he is calm and poised while below the water, he is driven by a flurry of focused activity.

Todd Stocker

#11. I wonder what freezes
the flurry of hurt on her cold-
flushed cheeks, if his touch is
a salve or the shattering.

Beth Morey

#12. The bowler approached the wicket at a lope, a trot, and then a run. He suddenly exploded in a flurry of arms and legs, out of which flew a ball.

Douglas Adams

#13. Anxiety was an irrational beast. You could go through hell and back, and yet the most seemingly innocuous thing could set off a flurry of panic.

Dannika Dark

#14. He ran his thumb over my lower lip, sending a flurry of sparks through me. "Good-bye, Sophie." -Cal

Rachel Hawkins

#15. No, I'm not very productive at all. I'm probably like an animal. I mean, great animals in the ocean feed all the time. I'm someone who procrastinates, worries, for most of a month, and then I'll have a flurry of manic productivity with a sense of great urgency and fear for, like, two days.

Jonathan Ames

#16. Sadie heard a flurry of wing snap as yellow, orange, and tiger-striped moths flew into the light. Dean stood haloed by moths that pulsed like slips of paper along his shoulders and arms. He lifted each one on his finger, naming them for her.

Susan Tekulve

#17. What's been building since the 1980's is a new kind of social Darwinism that blames poverty and crime and the crisis of our youth on a breakdown of the family. That's what will last after this flurry on family values.

Stephanie Coontz

#18. That kind of subtle manipulation always works best amidst a flurry of distractions. Washington's been doing it like that for decades.

Jim Butcher

#19. Sergeant Bobby Shaftoe, USMC, pours some beans into the grinder and starts to belabor the crank. A black flurry begins to accumulate in the coffeepot below. He has learned to make this stuff the Swedish way, using an egg to settle the grounds.

Neal Stephenson

#20. commotion and flurry.

James Rollins

#21. I'd been going up for things, but I hadn't got anything, and then 'Anne Frank' came out, and there was a sudden flurry. I got a call saying they wanted to see me at the Globe, which was incredible because I'd been coming here since I was 12.

Ellie Kendrick

#22. Perhaps all life was like that
dull and then a heroic flurry at the end.

Graham Greene

#23. The wind flew. God told to wind to condense itself and out of the flurry came the horse. But with the spark of sprit the horse flew by the wind itself.

Marguerite Henry

#24. Direct my attention to the flurry of snow outside. It's everywhere, white and crisp and completely innocent looking as it shines under the sun. It's a false innocence though, because the icy roads here have caused many accidents and taken many lives.

Jessica Sorensen

#25. Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions ... entertainment ... cares and anxieties ... and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

Joyce Meyer

#26. I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame.

Anthony Quinn

#27. Leaves grow old gracefully, bring such joy in their last lingering days. How vibrant and bright is their final flurry of life.

Karen Gibbs

#28. Cowboys, aliens, hit men, and now a canyon full of survivalists. Young stared down into the chasm and the flurry of movement their approach was causing and shook his head in disbelief. How was this his life?

J. Fally

#29. A door slammed next door. The serial killer looked up and over as a flurry of white fur pounded against the other side of the fence. "Don't start with me, you little runt, or you'll be next.

Jennifer Skully

#30. My insides twist in a flurry of excitement, and I stifle
the laugh welling inside.
Parker Whalen knows I'm alive.

Katie Klein

#31. The days of my youth, as I look back on them; seem to fly away from me in a flurry of pale repetitive scraps like those morning snow storms of used tissue paper that a train passenger sees whirling in the wake of the observation can.

Vladimir Nabokov

#32. Okey dokey, fire up the blender, let's make a furry-flurry smoothie out of that squirrel!

Christopher Moore

#33. The camp children descended upon me in a raucous, violent flurry of little bodies. I felt like tiny buffalo were stampeding over me.

Colleen Houck

#34. After a short flurry of national and international concern over the "death of the Sun," the human race settled down to solving the insoluble problem in the best way that they knew - they ignored it and hoped it would go away.

Robert L. Forward

#35. No dealer, curator, buyer or critic, or any existing combination of these, can be depended on to produce a reputation that is more than a momentary flurry.

Harold Rosenberg

#36. In the midst of the flurry - clarity.
In the midst of the storm - calm.
In the midst of divided interests - certainty.
In the many roads - a certain choice.

Mary Anne Radmacher

#37. Hands were such extraordinary tools, she mused. Tools, weapons, clumsy and deft, numb and tactile. Among tribal hunters, they could speak, a flurry of gestures eloquent in silence. But they could not taste. Could not hear. Could not weep. For all that, they killed so easily.

Steven Erikson

#38. Time, like a flurry of wild rain,
Shall drift across the darkened pane!

Charles G.D. Roberts

#39. Only God understands and reveals such a prophecy. Never will any man uncover or stumble onto such a prophecy - or any prophecy of God.

Gerald Flurry