Quotes and Sayings About Butterfly
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The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
-- Adam Carolla -
You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.
-- Adam Mickiewicz -
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
-- Alan Lightman -
I still get butterflies when England are playing.
-- Alan Shearer -
Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
The apocalypse is now! Americans know this, that the only hope is the flying saucers. Do you know how I see the world? Like a person who is dying. It's a worm who is dying to make a butterfly. We must not stop the worm from dying, we must help the worm to die to help the butterfly to be born. We need to dance with death. This world is dying, but very well. We will make a big, big enormous butterfly. You and I will be the first movements in the wings of the butterfly because we are speaking like this.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
-- Alexander Pope -
Her delight in the smallest things was like that of a child. There were days when she ran in the garden, like a child of ten, after a butterfly or a dragon-fly. This courtesan who had cost more money in bouquets than would have kept a whole family in comfort, would sometimes sit on the grass for an hour, examining the simple flower whose name she bore.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.
-- Alexey Brodovitch -
Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne -
Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.
-- Alice Hoffman -
You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
-- Alice Hoffman -
I'm just a butterfly, a mourning cloak, sealed inside a cocoon with blnd eyes and stiky wings. And suddenly I wonder if the cocoons sometimes do not open, if the butterfly inside is ever simply not strong enough to break through.
-- Ally Condie -
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
-- Alma Gluck -
I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.
-- Amitabh Bachchan -
Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
-- Amy Lowell -
His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered
-- Ann Aguirre -
The whole time I was hoping my silence would fit yours and exclamation marks would gently float across time and space so that boundaries would be crossed; the whole time I was praying you would read my eyes and understand what I was never able to understand. See, we were never about butterflies. We’ve always been about burning stars. All about us is unearthly and radiant.
-- Anna Akhmatova -
Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.
-- Anna Cora Mowatt -
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
-- Anna Pavlova -
From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!
-- Anna Sui -
Butterflies and birds are like one perfect teaspoon of creation.
-- Anne Lamott -
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
-- Anthony de Mello -
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
Outing someone is like ripping a butterfly from its cocoon. You can damage them for life and rob them of THEIR life changing experience of liberation. For a successful emergence THEY have to struggle through the cocoon of fear and shame. THEN they can fly.
-- Anthony Venn-Brown -
Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
