To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.
There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are not. But we're all your family. ' "She stops now. Leans over me so that the wisps of her hair tickle my face. She kisses me on the forehead. 'You still have a family,' she whispers.
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.
There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation is intensely real, from the waves on the sea to wisps of wind blowing in the characters' hair. The feeling I get watching that scene is why I fly - just for that feeling.
I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp. . .
How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you can't-and won't-get it, not ever? How do you pinch out that wisp of feeble, ruthless hope?
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.
