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.

Kurt Vonnegut

This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast.

Jan Egeland

In the Horn of Africa now, there are tens of thousands dying from the extreme vulnerability they are living in.

Ann Brashares

Maybe it didn’t matter if you were a world-famous heartthrob or a painful geek. Maybe it didn’t matter if you friend was possibly dying. Maybe you just got through it. Maybe that was all you could ask for.

Alfred Jarry

I am dying. Please ... bring me a toothpick.

Don DeLillo

The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery, that it might be better for you, Dear Reader, if you went back to the Living section of your newspaper because this is the dying section and you don't really want to be here.

Chuck Palahniuk

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

David Cronenberg

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

Thomas Browne

Let the fruition of things bless the possession of them, and take no satisfaction in dying but living rich.

Susan Griffin

Far more frightening than the thought of dying was the experience of erasure already occurring in my life. My fear of becoming someone who did not count.