#flies

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#descriptive #flying #prose #writing #description

They're butterflies because...well, he thought it was cool. They eat humans." -idk..... ↗

— Katsura Hoshino

#canibals #cool #d-gray #humans #humor

(Parody that is often falsely believed to be a true quote of Mariah Carey's) Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. ↗

— MAD Magazine

#flies #humor #starving #stupid #death

When you get a groove going, time flies. ↗

— Donald Fagen

#get #going #groove #time #time flies

That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income. ↗

— Harold Washington

#assets #day #every #every day #face

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#butterflies #closer #endure #few #few people

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.' ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#aggression #came #discussions #experiments #first

It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it. ↗

— Lance Burton

#along #comes #even #flies #fun