Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Denise Levertov

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....

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.

Catherynne M. Valente

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

Bill Gross

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Charles Stross

I'd like to be proven wrong on the difficulty of handling the medical side-effects of long term exposure to deep space (both microgravity induced illnesses and radiation damage).

Alan Watts

As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

Akon

I always try to give my own albums space in between so I have time to create a new sound and give time for people to miss me. You have to come out fresh and reinvent yourself.

Chogyam Trungpa

You can't feel the earth if you can't feel the space.

Chinua Achebe

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Chick Corea

You've got to create the space, then fill it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

You deserve to take up space.

David Rockwell

Portable designs have the power to transform unused public spaces into dynamic environments that build and invite communal experiences.

David Hockney

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

Alan Parsons

I try to find a way that the other guy hasn't thought of using a sound or a sample.

David Dunn

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

Benicio Del Toro

Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.

Benicio Del Toro

The very first things that I did, even in theater, were bad guys. They are meaty roles for the most part. With the bad guy you have more freedom to experiment and go further out than with a good guy.

Beau Mirchoff

Ladies, I'll let you in on a lil secret: guys don't notice your nails.

Bear Grylls

The rewards of the wild and the rewards of the survivor go to those who can dig deep, and, ultimately, to the guy who can stay alive.

Barry Alvarez

We had some guys that abandoned their technique and abandoned some of the things that we just worked a month on,

Audrina Patridge

A lot of the guys that I date and my friends are all in bands.

Arnold Palmer

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.