Famous Quotes & Sayings

Clive James

The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

Alma Gluck

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

I want to chase the butterflies.

Anthony Kiedis

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

Cillian Murphy

I've always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I've talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I'll have more butterflies.

Pia Zadora

One of the themes of Butterfly is incest. Before now, I don't think people could deal with the subject. Now that there have been exposes in major magazines and on television shows, and several films, the subject is at least more out in the open.

Jonathan Swift

She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth

Cynthia Payne

Numerous studies have found that trans fats raise our risk of heart disease. They can also contribute to an increase in total cholesterol levels and a drop in the healthy HDL cholesterol. These man-made fats are much worse for you than any other natural fat, even the saturated fats found in butter and beef.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

Tom Lenk

I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Timothy Ferriss

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.

Mike Holmgren

I think he's going to be fine. He had a concussion but there are grades of concussions. If I showed him a picture of a truck he would say it's a truck and not a butterfly right now. He's pretty lucid. They'll do more tests on him but they seem to think he's going to be fine for next week.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil.

The Connecticut Butterfly Association led the butterfly tagging, and we had a lot of people there. At one time, we had 40 people chasing butterflies; it was a little hectic for the monarchs having four kids chasing one butterfly. We used up our 100 tags.

Not as much as we used to. There's a lot of butter in there.

Dante Alighieri

Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

Dante Alighieri

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

Cornelia Funke

Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?

When she said she found a butterfly and her mom just passed away, I had tears.

When I was younger, I would see shea butter being sold on the street, and I was interested how people were still coating themselves in the theater of Africanism. You see that in dashikis and hairstyles and music.

Eva Green

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

Mark Jackson

You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.

Imogene Coca

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

J. K. Rowling

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

Guillermo del Toro

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

Paul Saffo

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

Pat Cooper

One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.

Pat Barker

Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

Harry Styles

I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?

Gunter Grass

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

Margaret Atwood

While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.