Holliday Grainger

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 to assume you're a ditsy young actress. Of course, I am a ditsy young actress - well, maybe not ditsy.

English Actress

Edan Lepucki

I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

American Novelist

Richard Blackmore

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 swift as the summer lightening.

English Poet

George Martin

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 dream world, really.

English Producer

Guy Standing

The precariatised mind is one without anchors, flitting from subject to subject, in the extreme suffering from attention deficit disorder. But it is also nomadic in its dealings with other people.

English Actor

Anna Pavlova

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Russian Dancer

Jessie Mueller

This business is crazy-pants. We flit in and out of these fantasy worlds and these intense periods of work and camaraderie, and then it goes away, and you do it all over again.

American Actress

Zhuangzi

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Chinese Philosopher

Nicole Kidman

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

Australian Actress

Anton du Beke

I was one of those people who just flitted about in life. I had no plans and no sense of direction.

British Dancer

Used when describing something moving quickly and softly, often in a playful or light manner.

Physical Movement

Implies a brief and rapid action, without lingering in one place.

Sudden Action

Often describes someone's attention or gaze moving quickly and not settling on anything for long.

Fleeting Attention

Suggests rapid switching, especially when used about thoughts or a conversation topic.

Quick Transition

Carries a negative connotation, suggesting unproductive use of time or opportunities.

Wasteful Behavior

May imply a reluctance or avoidance of engaging deeply with activities or people.

Avoiding Depth

 But that can be good for stories where a feeling of distance is important. A third person narrator can be either limited, meaning they stick close to one character’s thoughts and feelings, or they can be omniscient, able to flit between characters’ minds and give the reader more information.

First person vs. Second...

 males are actually not all that important in the lives of a lot of insects. In the social insects -- the bees and wasps and ants -- the individuals that you see every day -- the ants going back and forth to your sugar bowl, the honey bees that are flitting from flower to flower --

Marlene Zuk: What we...

 at where we're sitting and then cruise up the coast to the big aquarium the ocean and California's four national marine sanctuaries and a new network state marine reserves that are beginning to protect and restore some of the assets we can flit over to Hawaii and

TED Prize wish: Protect...

 to tell the truth. It's easy to fool ourselves. I saw something, but what's more likely -- that I saw an alien spacecraft, or that my brain misinterpreted the data my eyes were giving it? Ever since though I've Why don't we see flying saucers flitting around?

Where are all the...

 your thoughts and words flit and dart, disconcertedly elusive at times, but when caught and examined -- ahh, such a wonder, such a delightful reward. There's no passing time with you, only collecting -- the collecting of moments with the hope for preservation

Marian Bantjes:...

 But also, most importantly, all the invisible people behind TED that you just see flitting around the whole place that have made sort of this space for such a diverse and robust conversation. It's really amazing. I've been in the audience.

Chris Abani: On humanity...

 Eyes opened or closed, it's all the same because the sun never shines there. Up ahead, you see a light. When you creep in to investigate, a blue light flits around you. "I could watch this forever," you think. But you can't

The brilliance of...

 and I encounter fireflies flitting about at dusk, that is pure magic to me. That is nature, finding expression against all the odds that we impress upon it. That to me is hope. And that shows me that life is resilient

Art of the Matter PIPE Nat...

 or an all-too-short-lived flicker of flame. 2,400 years ago, one of history's famous thinkers said life is like being chained up in a cave, forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Pretty cheery, right?

Plato’s Allegory of the...

 vampires will be flying soon after george and sophie arrive so do the bats flitting close to them attracted by their body heat what do you got what you got let's see

Flit

To move quickly and lightly from one place to another.

Often appears as...

To move or change quickly.

Often appears as...

To spend time in a wasteful, trifling, or evasive manner.

Often appears as...

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