Butterfly Quotes

581 Butterfly quotes by 447 unique authors

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 read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed… — Josephine Humphreys
Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’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
Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox. — Willie Stargell
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled… — Laurie Lee
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it… — Giacomo Puccini
I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly,… — Gillian Flynn
I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers. — Clarice Lispector
Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. — Giorgio de Chirico
The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to… — Elizabeth Lesser
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice… — Michael Beckwith
And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and… — Lindsey Kelk

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