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.

Hayley Orrantia

I can't stand jelly shoes. They're ugly and not comfortable.

Greg Fitzsimmons

I feel like I am too old to eat jelly. But I am too young to eat prunes. I am between grapes.

Janet Evanovich

I mostly eat peanut butter sandwiches. Peanut butter and banana, peanut butter and jelly, peanut butter and potato chips, peanut butter and olives, and peanut butter and marshmallow goo. So sue me, I like peanut butter.

Janet Evanovich

Ranger sent us to check on you," Hal said. "We just got here, and we heard shots." "Some moron ate my jelly doughnut," Lula said. "So I shot him.

Jim Butcher

Likest thou jelly within thy doughnut?

Gene Mauch

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

Judy Alford

You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.

Leonard Cohen

You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Charles Stanley

Focusing on difficulties intensifies and enlarges the problem. When we focus our attention on God, the problem is put into its proper perspective and it no longer overwhelms us.

Charles Stanley

No matter how far we may wander from the Lord’s perfect will for our lives, we are always welcome back.

Charles Spurgeon

If you wait for a perfect church, you must wait until you get to heaven; and even if you could find a perfect assembly on earth, I am sure they would not admit you to their fellowship, for you are not perfect yourself.

Charles Spurgeon

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

Charles Spurgeon

Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

Charles Spurgeon

If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.

Charles Spurgeon

Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.

Alanis Morissette

In a perfect world, there would be no censorship, because there would be no judgement.

Tom Ryan

We've battled and we've competed. It's just a question of playing seven solid innings. I still think we're pretty solid all the way around.

Scott Rolen

We've always had a tough time playing them.

Ian Mckellen

When I was playing Gandalf, I didn't think, 'Oh my dear, I'm playing a 7,000 year old wizard,' because I've never met one, and I don't know what they're like.

James Norton

When I was playing a psychopath in 'Happy Valley,' it was really weird.

Cheryl Cole

We're so inconsistent. That's what's scary about us, I'm sure for anybody's who's playing us, but it's also scary for me because I don't know what team we're going to be tonight.

Tony Harper

We're going to play the same way we've been playing all year.

Keegan Bradley

When it's deep into the season and you're not playing well, it's frustrating. This is when it's time to revisit some basics.

Chris Plummer

We're seeing more and more playing on it.

Dennis Brooks

We're right where we need to be. We've been playing very tough.

Edward Gorey

I should like a parsley sandwich. To the best of my knowledge they are not in season.

Alber Elbaz

I created the peplum so you can eat in it. You can have a dessert, you can have another sandwich.

Chuck Robb

Normally a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to.

Taron Egerton

I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

Roy Keane

They have a few drinks, and maybe the prawn sandwiches, and they don't realise what's going on out on the pitch.

Shane Battier

Sometimes you've got to eat a turd sandwich; makes the ribeye taste better next time.

Chris O'Dowd

The cauliflower soup sounds so good. And the broccoli-melt sandwich. I've never heard of such a thing.

Jim Butcher

It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie of my life must be really low-budget.

Hubert H. Humphrey

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.