Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertrand Russell

After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

William Shakespeare

We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.

William Shakespeare

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

Pia Zadora

Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.

William Stafford

I embrace emerging experience.I participate in discovery.I am a butterfly.I am not a butterfly collector.I want the experience of the butterfly.

Alan Shearer

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

Charles Baudelaire

I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

Edith Wharton

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

Bertrand Russell

When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod, the clergy, both in England and America, with enthusiastic support of George III, condemned it as an impious attempt to defeat the will of God.

Kerry Collins

That was a tough way to open up the season ... all the hype and everything and playing in New England, which is about as tough a place as you can play,

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Matthew Quick

When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!

Jacques Santini

We have a lot of respect for England,

Bill Cummings

We've made many great matches. In fact, one of our matches is taking a trip to England this spring. They don't all turn out that way, but you never know.

William Shakespeare

I cannot speak your england.

Joseph Banks

Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe.

David Beckham

Whoever comes in as England manager it is up to him to pick the new captain, but at the end of the day I'm not going to give it up easily. There are the European championships to come and then maybe another World Cup.

Carl Sagan

The open road still softly calls...

Arnold Schoenberg

There is still plenty of good music to be written in C major.

Rachel Cohn

Do you still Kill Gerbils?

Bob Hope

I can still chase women, only downhill

Jason Alexander

I'm still bald, I just wear a toupee.

Eckhart Tolle

You are never more essentially, more deeply, yourself than when you are still.

Brian J. White

I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.

Brigitte Bardot

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

Antonio Davis

I'm still doing something I love to do.