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.

Matsuo Basho

Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

Eva Green

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

Kendrick Lamar

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

Joyce Brothers

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Elizabeth Goudge

...The simple little words came easily, fitting themselves to the tune that had come out of the harpsichord. It didn't seem to her that she made them up at all. It seemed to her that they flew in from the rose-garden, through the open window, like a lot of butterflies, poised themselves on the point of her pen, and fell off it on to the paper.

Peter Cameron

As long as I've got my eyesight I'm not going to stop.

Unknown

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

George White

I've run from four hurricanes, and every time the eye finds me, ... That's why I'm not running from this one. Why run if it's going to find me?

Frankie Valli

The way the lyric, ?you're just too good to be true I can't take my eyes off you.? It's just magical.

Cam Newton

I always keep my eye focused on what I would and want to wear.

Charles Darwin

When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.

Jane Blalock

It doesn't happen all the time, but when I'm playing well it's as if my eyes change. I can feel it. I just feel like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-a transformation happens, I'm a totally different human being. I don't hear anybody, I don't see anybody, nothing bothers me, nothing is going to interfere with what I'm about to do.

Jane Birkin

I'd rather live on my own than live with a face that looks at me with the wrong eyes.

Janet Frame

Writing an autobiography, usually thought of as a looking back, can just as well be a looking across or through, with the passing of time giving an X-ray quality to the eye.

Jim Calhoun

I've been in a (locker) room with some talented teams and some teams that bordered on greatness. But I don't know if I've been in a room before with so many kids that have sacrificed so much.

T. D. Jakes

If you're gifted enough, nappy hair, gap teeth, acne face - I don't care what it is, greatness will shine through anything!

Max Beerbohm

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Matthew Hayden

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

Plato

.. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations.

Philip Larkin

Many famous feet have trod Sublunary paths, and famous hands have weighed The strength they have against the strength they need; And famous lips interrogated God Concerning franchise in eternity....

Paul Weller

I think the biggest influence for me is when I hear a great piece of music, whatever the style, I'm kind of inspired by that greatness and I'm inspired to try and obtain something that comes close to that greatness.

Lech Walesa

Words are plentiful; deeds are precious.

John Piper

I wrote this poem called “The Calvinist” to capture a glimpse of God’s sovereign intersection with the life of a sinful man. There is no part of life where the greatness of God does not penetrate deeply. I want to help you feel that.