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Flitting Quotes

Quotes on fleeting, flitting moments

This flitting quotes collection explores staying loyal instead of flitting from one thing to another, and how ideas keep flitting through the Brain.

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but...

Quotes by Richard Blackmore

If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.

Quotes by Nicole Kidman

The idea of a pseudonym had been flitting around my brain for a long time, along with its cognate, disappearance. In the 1980s, I published some poems under a pen name in a literary magazine to see what it would...

Quotes by Michael Redhill

When you see a fly flitting around your hair or your potato salad, you might see an annoyance. But in my lab, you really see a marvelous machine: arguably the most sophisticated flying device on the planet.

Quotes by Michael Dickinson

Arguably Quotes

I enjoy flitting around between hair colours. I find it fascinating when people think I'm naturally blonde, as I've only been blonde for about two seconds. People pay more attention to you as a blonde; it's also easier for people...

Quotes by Holliday Grainger

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a...

Quotes by George Martin

More and more, the superrich don't live in one place but many, flitting between multiple homes on different continents, flying to them on private jets, perhaps, concealing many of their real estate purchases through webs of shell companies and trusts.

Quotes by Anand Giridharadas

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these flitting quotes mean?
They use flitting to describe quick, restless movement, whether it's staying committed instead of drifting from person to person, or a thought that keeps returning to someone's mind.
Are these quotes about relationships or about nature?
Both. Some address commitment, contrasting steady devotion with flitting around, while others describe literal motion, like a fly darting near food or a horse gliding as softly as a breeze.
Why is flitting used to describe thoughts?
Because an idea that keeps returning without settling is compared to something flitting through the Brain, present but never quite still.
Is flitting always seen negatively in these quotes?
Not necessarily. One quote frames a fly's flitting motion as a marvel of engineering rather than a nuisance, showing the word can carry admiration as easily as annoyance.
What kind of imagery appears most often?
Motion imagery dominates, brains, wings, and even a running horse are all described as flitting, evoking something graceful yet impossible to pin down, almost like chasing a Dream.

Other lines picture flitting in nature, like a fly darting past or a horse's motion as soft as a fleeting Dream.