Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damian Lewis

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night.

Alexander Pope

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

Shailene Woodley

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.

Sue Monk Kidd

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

Caspar David Friedrich

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

Krystie Schiele

When she said she found a butterfly and her mom just passed away, I had tears.

Karch Kiraly

I just think about what I am doing on my side of the net, which requires focus. Even after all the years I've been playing, I still get butterflies before each match.

Roz Chast

I've always wanted to learn how to hook rugs. A wonderful artist named Leslie Giuliani taught me how. The nice thing is you can change it as you go along.

Iman Iman

I wanted to do something other than just sign books, ... I thought that by doing makeovers I could make this more of an interactive thing. So I have makeup artists there and I do a little Q and A. I just want to make myself available. I want them to feel that I will treat them as well as I would any celebrity. Some people may not think it is my forte, but I am actually very approachable -- unlike my photographs.

Jane Hirshfield

Every other year or so I go to one of those great generous places, the artist retreats. Some of the poems in The Beauty were written at the MacDowell Colony, in New Hampshire, and others at Civitella Ranieri, in Umbria.

Diana Vreeland

Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.

Bret Michaels

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Bobby Sherman

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

Charles Bukowski

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Egon Schiele

To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating life

James Lee

Every artist knows that at some point the gift he has will eventually be made manifest. He will, at some point, see the work he has done improve the lives of others around him. But I think every artist also realizes that time will go away from him, too. Success is a fickle companion.

Roger Tory Peterson

Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.

Lydia M. Child

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

Ronald Opel

Now that we are past (Hurricanes) Katrina and Wilma and bird flu, the focus is back on a potential nuclear event.

Ethel Merman

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird

George Herbert

Forbeare not sowing because of birds.

George Herbert

Farre shooting never kild bird.

George Herbert

I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.

African Proverbs

By coming and going, a bird weaves its nest. Ashanti, Ghana

Friedrich Nietzsche

And if you are not a bird, then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.