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.

Haruki Murakami

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

Emily Dickinson

A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

Hermann Hesse

And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another.

Matt Young

The whole idea of designing a vessel like a sub in my first year of college really interested me.

Derrick Bell

I live to harass white folks.

Dennis Prager

Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

Brad Dancer

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

John Boyer

Bernie has been a longstanding supporter of the College and our students, and we are extremely grateful for this extraordinary gift.

Tom Fontana

We wanted to tell the truth about what it is like to go to college in 2006.

Kayla Williams

We wanted to run them in the second half and get them tired. We know that most teams are not used to playing on (larger) college courts.

Tim Pergram

Every player in that locker room wants to go on to play Division I college hockey, and they know this is a route to get to it.

Marvin Philip

Every game is like his first college game. When you have someone who loves football like that it makes everything more fun, more exciting. He's just a good guy all around and he comes from a good family.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Donald Miller

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

David Wroblewski

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost—not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions. All of which is to say: stories, too, are wild things.

David Spade

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

Simon Mainwaring

How well you tell your story determines how well your customers tell your story.

Steve Earle

Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.