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?

Annika Sorenstam

I still get butterflies on the first tee. I still get sweaty hands, and my heart pumps a lot going down the 18th. But I know what winning is all about now, and that's a feeling that I like.

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.

Matsuo Basho

Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

Vladimir Nabokov

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Russ Miller

The Connecticut Butterfly Association led the butterfly tagging, and we had a lot of people there. At one time, we had 40 people chasing butterflies; it was a little hectic for the monarchs having four kids chasing one butterfly. We used up our 100 tags.

Novak Djokovic

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.'

Jane Smiley

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

Brent Weeks

The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets.

Charles Spurgeon

The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

Eleanor Smeal

She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

Carlos Moya

You have to play perfect and wish that he is not going to be at his best. I think today these two things happened.

Stu Jackson

This was another perfect storm of sorts in that the timing was such that he wasn't available.

Brad Miller

Everything went perfect for them. And obviously, we didn't play worth a crap.

Greg Boyle

The poor evangelize you about what's important and what is the Gospel, and that that's where the joy is.

Meg Stuart

We start out weeping in lawn chairs; by the end we are actually wearing the landscape, joyfully at one with it.

Alexander Lowen

The path to joy leads through despair.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

D. A. Carson

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Clara Schumann

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Clara Schumann

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

David Mamet

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

David Platt

I am finding deep joy in depending on Christ for the guidance only He can provide as He produces the fruit of gospel in my life.