#crawl

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants, crowded together around the Hill, blackening the ground, that you begin to see the whole beast, and now you observe it thinking, planning, calculating. It is an intelligence, a kind of live computer, with crawling bits for its wits. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#around #beast #begin #bits #calculating

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#atheist #back #crawl #dangerous #easiest

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#back #between #could #crawl #curl

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

#begins #character #crawling #curiosity #flesh

The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#authors #crawling #like #now #performance