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.

Anthony Kiedis

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

Susanna Kearsley

Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.

Tanith Lee

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

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.

Scott Anderson

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

Stacy Stewart

Now is the time for folks in South Florida to get their hurricane plan back out and dust it off, because the season's not over. Unless the storm just gets torn apart, a landfall somewhere on the Florida peninsula seems fairly likely by Saturday.

Bodhidharma

Our true buddha-nature has no shape. And the dust of affliction has no form.

Dionne Warwick

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.

Ken Austin

We all forget. Memories are short. We need to go back and dust some things off.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.

Alexander Pope

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

E. O. Wilson

People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here.

Dorothy Fields

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again.

Desmond Tutu

I've never doubted that apartheid - because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil - was going to bite the dust eventually.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Jamie Lynn Spears

I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album!

Jasmine Guy

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something

Janis Joplin

I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Linda Eder

Though it's a tribute to her, ... I'm not sitting there thinking 'How can I do it just like her' when I'm singing these songs.

Donald Fagen

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.