Butterfly Quotes

581 quotes by 447 authors

Once Zhuangzi dreamt he was a butterfly... — Zhuangzi
Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the… — Khalil Gibran
No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, . . . . . . No road,… — Thomas Hood
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box. — Paul Saffo
I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down. — George H. W. Bush
I was thinking recently, If the body really is the new dress, as some are saying - with women buying boobs, butts, faces - then… — Alber Elbaz
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in… — Pia Zadora
David knew everyone because he's such a social butterfly. — Stephen Stills
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of… — Brendan Gill
There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that… — John Starks
The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third… — Annie Dillard
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by… — Howard Mumford Jones
For the butterfly, mating and propagation involve the sacrifice of life, for the human being, the sacrifice of beauty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I readÂ Butterflyâ€™s ChildÂ in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justiceâ€”and how all these things are, in… — Josephine Humphreys
Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterflyâ€™s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other. — Steve Aylett
I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterfly — Harry Turtledove
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… — Amitabh Bachchan
I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me. — Vanessa Hudgens
Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one. — Paris Hilton

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