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.

Hermann Goering

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

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.

Brian Tucker

There's a real dearth of trained engineers and scientists from Pakistan,

Tom Schrader

We're suffering from a dearth of information -- there's no economic news until Thursday.

Michael Greeley

There's such a dearth of very high-quality opportunities. Investors will move very aggressively right now.

Ranbir Kapoor

To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

Hiroichi Nishi

The market was short of upward momentum owing to a dearth of strong fund inflows from overseas investors.

Dennis Ritchie

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

Seth Shostak

You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously.

Ned Riley

There has been a dearth of negative news, which to the market has to be a sign of good news.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Andre Woodson

We're going to give it to the hot hand.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Andre Owens

We're looking for a win, because we want to be as hot as we can be going into the tournament. We have to look at it that way.

Betty Wright

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

Gina Lombardi

With the light-rail going in right next to us and all the development around, it makes our land a hot spot. You can't really stand in the way of it.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).

Richard Rushing

At any point in time, I can reach out and touch everyone's laptop at the hot spot, and there's usually not any way of preventing that -- from me touching and looking at other people's stuff at the hot spot itself.

David Cook

All people who know her know she's not a hot dog, she's a serious journalist.

Charles M. Schulz

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

Saxby Chambliss

There's always somebody who wants to take a shot at the peanut program,

Diana Vreeland

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,

Dick Van Dyke

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

Rick Riordan

Tyson thought Annabeth was just about the coolest thing since peanut butter, and he SERIOUSLY loved peanut butter.

Lisa Rinna

When I was 16, I discovered jazzercise. And I thought it was the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.

Dan Shechtman

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

Frank Zappa

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

Gwen Stefani

I`m like a peanut butter sandwich.