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I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that. -- Gillian Jacobs
Moth, that wasn't very nice. -- Michael Buckley
Moth to a flame I follow. -- Karen Marie Moning
...what the Man-Moth fears most he must do.. -- Elizabeth Bishop
Moth: I gave you my life. Flame: I allowed you to kiss me. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light. -- W. H. Davies
Small Moth...She's slicing ripe white peachesinto the Tony the Tiger bowland dropping slivers for the dogpoised vibrating by her foot to stop their fallwhen she spots it, camouflaged,a glimmer and then full on-happiness, plashing blunt soft wingsinside her as if it wantsto escape again. -- Sarah Lindsay
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity. -- Steven Chu
Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? -- Helen Hunt Jackson
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. -- Christopher Fry
It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas. -- Elizabeth McCracken
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. -- Paula Poundstone
There was a moth in there, and it still had its wings crumpled up, and it was just starting to pump its wings up. Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing. -- Laurel Clark
I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight. -- Monica Lewinsky
Be the flame, not the moth. -- Giacomo Casanova
Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle -- Rumi
The white moth of hope fluttered before her face. -- Cornell Woolrich
Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals. -- Stephen King
Her lips were drawn to his like a moth to a flame. -- Anya Seton
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man -- Saint John Chrysostom
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. -- Saint John Chrysostom
She was drawn to damaged souls like a moth to a flame. -- Anna McPartlin
The white sun like a moth on a string circles the southpole. -- A. R. Ammons
How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame! -- John Gay
Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. -- William Blake
Hurt no living thing: Ladybird, nor butterfly, Nor moth with dusty wing. -- Christina Rossetti
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.... -- Anne Sexton
The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity -- Steven Chu
Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass. -- Sara Teasdale
I can't smell moth balls, I find it too difficult to get their tiny legs apart -- Steve Martin
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What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black, -- Stan Brakhage
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing -- Christopher Fry
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost. -- Emile M. Cioran
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He felt all at once like an ineffectual moth, fluttering at the windowpane of reality, dimly seeing it from outside. -- Philip K. Dick
I find a fascination, like the fascination for the moth of a star, in those who hold aloof and disdain me. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis. -- Annie Proulx
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Announcing your death should be like announcing that you are a lunar moth: It must be done quietly or it will not be believed. -- Daniel Handler
My inner Jiminy was screaming at me to stop playing with fire again, but I was a moth drawn to a flaming hot drummer. -- Kristen Hope Mazzola
In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes? -- Nathalia Crane
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The weeping of the candle is not in mourning for the moth: the dawn is at hand, and it is thinking of its own dark night. -- Saib Tabrizi
The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over. -- Rudyard Kipling
I love women. I love all the bright and attractive people and things of this world, the flame and also the moth, the dancer and the dance. -- Yves Saint Laurent
Andrew Lloyd Webber is one of those odd moth-like creatures who seem to combine extreme discomfort with the spotlight with an unstoppable compulsion to leap into it. -- Craig Brown
Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one. -- Anne Sexton
Every object strives for its proper place. A book seeks to be near its truest admirer. Just as this helpless moth seeks to be near the candle that infatuates him. -- Vikram Seth
Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be wedding this blossom to another in the next county. -- George Iles
The moth unwitting rushes on the fire, Through ignorance the fish devours the bait, We men know well the foes that lie in wait, Yet cannot shun the meshes of desire. -- Bhartrhari
'Don't be the moth. Be the light bulb.' When I say that I mean don't follow the crowd. Just shine. Be the light bulb. Do your thing. Pave your own path. -- Sara Paxton
I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know. -- Woody Allen
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world. -- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
Where dost thou careless lie, Buried in ease and sloth? Knowledge that sleeps, doth die; And this security, It is the common moth, That eats on wits and arts, and oft destroys them both. -- Ben Jonson
The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot, be alienated. -- James Russell Lowell
Each of us as he receives his private trouncings at the hands of fate is kept in good heart by hearing of the moth in his brother's parachute and the scorpion in his neighbor's underwear. -- N. F. Simpson
We see a newborn moth unwrapping itself and announce, Look, children, a miracle! But let an irreversible wound be knit back to seamlessness? We won't even see it, though we look at it every day. -- Leif Enger

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