Top 25 Quotes About Insect Wings: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Insect Wings

#1. Maybe he's become addicted to living, he thinks, its gentle terror like the rush of insect wings against his face.

Jennifer Mills

#2. A sign read "Free drinks for billiards competitors only." Hand-lettered below read "All others will pay." It was written in blood. I could tell because a red fairy with what looked like black insect wings was writing it at the time, with his own dismembered finger.

Red Tash

#3. Tonight
A friendly breeze
Will agitate roots of meanings.
Wonder will flap its wings.

Deep in the night, an insect
Will gnaw
At the green portion of solitude.
Morning will fall
Into the word of morning.

Sohrab Sepehri

#4. Story was a blessing and a curse. A reason to stay and a reason to leave.

J.A. Huss

#5. In the vast, and the minute, we see
The unambiguous footsteps of the God,
Who gives its lustre to an insect's wing
And wheels His throne upon the rolling worlds.

William Cowper

#6. The thing about the performance part ... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.

Ilana Glazer

#7. I can tell you what I really love: when I run into people on the street that tell me they have connected with my music.

Solange Knowles

#8. Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

Alexander Pope

#9. The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings ordie. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

Henry Adams

#10. I was very excited to hone in on John Goodman. Casting John first really set the tone. He's very good at being terrifying and being hilarious, and I loved the idea of that character not being merely 'moustache-twirly'. I enjoyed being scared by him.

Dan Trachtenberg

#11. You're next. It's the next thing. Next stop Kilburn Station. The doors fold inwards, urban insect closing its wings.

Zadie Smith

#12. We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

David Lagercrantz

#13. I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.

John Stuart Mill

#14. It's hard to convince people when you're just staring out the window that you're doing your hardest work of the day.

Charles M. Schulz

#15. There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence - or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

Arthur C. Clarke

#16. The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny

Wole Soyinka

#17. There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an insect's wings. But perhaps it is because I am a savage and do not understand. The clatter only seems to insult the ears.

Chief Seattle

#18. It all goes together," Montana said. "Society wants to sell them things, so it makes them grow up faster. Sexism serves capitalism.

Nancy Jo Sales

#19. defect corrections have more than a 50 percent chance of being wrong the first time

Steve McConnell

#20. God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?

Khalil Gibran