Butterfly Quotes · Page 11

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

Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve.…

— Lord Chesterfield

The world is ruled by butterflies adding to their weapon piles. Imagine what your taxes buy. We hardly ever try.

— Sting

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable…

— Romeo Santos

With Wings of the Butterfly, John Urbancik infuses his tale of shapeshifters, romance and pack rivalry with some unexpected and welcome surprises.…

— Kealan Patrick Burke

Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.

— George Sand

Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries?…

— Toni Morrison

Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind…

— Chuck Jones

I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm…

— Manika

Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

— Anna Cora Mowatt

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

— Barbara Ascher

Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not…

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

When I go onstage, every situation I have to play, I feel pain. When I sing 'Madama Butterfly' I feel completely everything…

— Kristine Opolais

Getting into drag almost seemed like, not my destiny, but you know how a caterpillar is gonna become a butterfly no matter…

— Aquaria

I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest…

— John Kleinig

She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to…

— Tim Tharp

They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy…

— Woodrow Wilson

I love the garishness of the '90s - the giant platform shoes, the sparkly butterfly tops, the chokers.

— Aisling Bea

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never…

— Tom Stoppard

...trust in Creation which is made fresh daily and doesn’t suffer in translation. This God does not work in especially mysterious ways.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Tel Aviv, Israel, me, Robbie Williams. I'm coming to see you. It's like a first date. I've got butterflies in my stomache,…

— Robbie Williams

My English teacher has no face. She has uncombed stringy hair that droops on her shoulders. The hair is black from her…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

“A butterfly shimmered in its flight, a buttercup that had learned to reach the heavens.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

With no mind, flowers lure the butterfly; With no mind, the butterfly visits the blossoms. Yet when flowers bloom, the butterfly comes;…

— Ryokan Taigu