“All books are butterflies, having once lived the life of a caterpillar.” — Suzanne Brandyn Copy Share Image
Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Breaststroke is an athletic event; butterfly is a political statement. — Paul Tsongas Copy Share Image
“I am still alone, broken and small, the butterfly fighting for life in the grass.” — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older. — Li Bai Copy Share Image
Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my curse you're letting go of… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my… — Charles Gounod Copy Share Image
For the man that steals my heart. The man that made my heart flutters. The man that sweeps me off my feet.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“They open their wings, flash patterns and color, fly from flower toflower. I, with the dark brittles and many feet of the… — Nina Kiriki Hoffman Copy Share Image
I realized what Led Zeppelin was about around the end of our first U.S. tour. We started off not even on the… — Robert Plant Copy Share Image
What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet is it any more unusual to find… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking… — Ville Valo Copy Share Image
Melville had to fight, fight against the existing world, against his own very self. Only he would never quite put the knife… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“[The unicorn] sighed and plodded on, both amused and disappointed. It serves you right, she told herself. You know better than to… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To… — Violette Leduc Copy Share Image
Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow. The caterpillar will become a breathtakingly beautiful butterfly. You will… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
You know I still get nervous speaking in front of people. Speaking reminds me of pitching in that way. No matter how… — Jim Abbott Copy Share Image
“The word psyche means two things in Greek, his aunt said. Two very different but interesting things. Butterfly and soul. But when… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Yesterday,’ she said, referring to the collective past of her tribe, ‘the people of these forests knew the secret. They made the… — Lidija Stankovikj Copy Share Image
“Why the devil couldn’t it have been blue?” I said to myself. And this thought—one of the most profound ever made since… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
“The most beautiful of butterflies is nothing but a well-dressed caterpillar.” — Corina Abdulahm Negura Copy Share Image
“We all get butterflies Peter, it’s just a question of teaching them to fly in formation.” — Peter Rosengard Copy Share Image
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image