Twitching Quotes

At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas. (Ian Rankin)
What you will be looking for is a day that closes above the prior day's high and most likely 'breaks' out to the upside to close above a trading range. This is the twitching worm that causes the public to leap before they look. View quote
Larry R. Williams
A poor gasping, blushing creature, with trembling knees and twitching hands, is a painful sight to every one, and if it cannot cure itself, the sooner it goes and hangs itself the better. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. View quote
Donna Tartt
He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up. View quote
John Leguizamo
With a twitching nose A dog reads a telegram On a wet tree trunk. View quote
Richard Wright
I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching. View quote
David Byrne
In the early eighties, savvy Japanese had been scouring Melrose for old leather jackets and jukeboxes, and nervous tourists would drive by to look at the punks with green mohawks; now the funny hairstyles looked as if they'd been done at the Beverly Center. Like a government-subsidized avant-garde, Sullivan had thought as he'd tooled his old van down the crowded avenue, affluent disenfranchisement is just galvanic twitching in a dead frog's leg. View quote
Tim Powers
Sometimes I worry that I've lost the plot My twitching muscles tease my flippant thoughts I never really dreamed of heaven much Until we put him in the ground. View quote
Conor Oberst
To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor. View quote
Deanna Raybourn
Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie. (Ilona Andrews)
The monster licked his lips, long lines of whiskers twitching, and spoke in a deep growl. "Pretty, aren't I?" Curran. In midform. I broke from his gaze. "Adorable. View quote
Ilona Andrews
I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Primitive animals will sometimes keep chattering or twitching their muscles even after their heads have been cut off. And that's probably the best analogy today to the president's continuing enunciation of his policies. View quote
Josh Marshall