Mothlike Quotes & Sayings

Bugs Bunny with a double-barreled twelve-gauge shoots you in the head with a miracle. — Denis Johnson

You tell them that you're doing this not because you want to save money on office space but because this is how their generation likes to work. — Dan Lyons

Damn this human who had come into her life and made himself so important to her; had made coming to terms with her inner monster that much more difficult to bear. — Samantha Young

As I've always said: The future lies ahead. — Pat Paulsen

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul. — Phil Spector

will never know my skin. wild with everything and nothing but them. i sang into their blood. each and every one of them have my voices in their bones. — Nayyirah Waheed

If you want, you can overcome all: Pressure, expectations, gravity. — Mesut Ozil

If you were writing a book to be published, you might be restrained by the fear that your wild imaginings might drive some people crazy. As it is, you are free, you can go off in any direction whatsoever, so long as the flame in your mind burns that way. — Ted Hughes

A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,
The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.
("Ephemera") — George Sterling

It's not what happens to you that determines your happiness. It's how you think about what happens to you. — Andrew Matthews

Listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,
an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice! — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live. — Oliver North