Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Lamott

butterflies were wind energy made visible.

Anne Lamott

Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.

Annie Besant

Death consists, indeed, in a repeated process of unrobing, or unsheathing. The immortal part of man shakes off from itself, one after the other, its outer casings, and - as the snake from its skin, the butterfly from its chrysalis - emerges from one after another, passing into a higher state of consciousness.

Alexander Pope

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

Alexander Pope

Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

E. O. Wilson

Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.

Dolly Parton

Love is like a butterfly As soft and gentle as a sigh The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings Love makes your heart feel strange inside It flutters like soft wings in flight Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

Andre Gide

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Ann Aguirre

His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered

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.

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.

Damien Hirst

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.