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Letter "F" » flaps
«One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of a seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather forever»
«The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.»
Author: Lance Morrow
(
Essayist,
Journalist)
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About:
America and Americans
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Keywords:
afternoon,
American culture,
bats,
flap,
flapped,
flapping,
flaps,
Kennedy,
malign,
maligned,
November,
The Wild,
trap,
trap door
«Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.»
Author: Mel Brooks
(
Actor,
Film Director,
Producer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
arms,
colorful,
flap,
flapped,
flapping,
flaps,
jump,
legs,
livelier,
lively,
noise,
Noisier,
noisiest,
noisy,
opposite,
philosophic,
Quiet Life,
wax,
waxes,
waxing
«I don't believe in angels, no. . . . But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far.»
«It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.»
«As the Silks walk around the Establishment and poke it with a stick flocks of multicolored anecdotes rise into the air on flapping wings, and, occasionally, a bee stings.»
Author: John Leonard
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Keywords:
anecdote,
anecdotes,
flap,
flapping,
flaps,
multicolored,
poke,
poking,
silks,
The Establishment,
walking stick
«I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.»
«We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Adelaide,
Atlantic,
cough,
coughing,
coughs,
eager,
flap,
flapped,
flapping,
flaps,
leak,
leaking,
leaks,
leak out,
Old World,
perchance,
The Tunnel,
whooping cough
«I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.»
Author: Mitch Hedberg
(
Comedian)
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About:
Arguments,
Comedy,
Funny,
Relationships
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Keywords:
argument,
flap,
flapped,
flapping,
flaps,
girlfriend,
I Tried,
slam,
slamming,
slams,
tent,
walk out
«The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(
Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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About:
Men and Women
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Keywords:
bunch,
cloth,
cloths,
feathers,
flap,
flapped,
flapping,
flaps,
softly