Top Butterfly Quotes Collection
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17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch of the butterfly for the briefest instant, yet the wisp of wing dust still shone on his lips years later.Collection: Butterfly
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.Collection: Butterfly
I have butterflies in my stomach.Collection: Butterfly
Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.Collection: Butterfly
If nothing ever changed, there would be no such things as butterflies.Collection: Butterfly
...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.Collection: Butterfly
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.Collection: Butterfly
Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.Collection: Butterfly
Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.Collection: Butterfly
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillarCollection: Butterfly
No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)Collection: Butterfly
I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly.Collection: Butterfly
When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me into darkness.Collection: Butterfly
Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.Collection: Butterfly
I became the butterfly. I got out of the cocoon, and I flew.Collection: Butterfly
He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his "butterfly mind.Collection: Butterfly
I'm a social caterpillar. I am not a social butterflyCollection: Butterfly
Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little coffin. There they are in a sarcophagus, and then they come out and dance with the angels.Collection: Butterfly
Without adversity, the butterfly would never have the strength to achieve its destiny. It would never develop the strength to become something extraordinary.Collection: Butterfly
I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.Collection: Butterfly
We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.Collection: Butterfly
Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.Collection: Butterfly
Hapiness is as exclusive as a butterfly, and you must never pursue it. If you stay very still, it may come and settle on your hand. But only briefly. Savour those moments, for they will not come in your way very often.Collection: Butterfly
The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.Collection: Butterfly
It's a business now. But you still have little butterflies in your stomach before every game.Collection: Butterfly
Life is like a butterfly. You can chase, or you can let it come to you.Collection: Butterfly
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.Collection: Butterfly
I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.Collection: Butterfly
It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.Collection: Butterfly
I just think about what I am doing on my side of the net, which requires focus. Even after all the years I've been playing, I still get butterflies before each match.Collection: Butterfly
I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.Collection: Butterfly
Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.Collection: Butterfly
It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.Collection: Butterfly
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science.Collection: Butterfly
Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.Collection: Butterfly
Once a pallid Vestal Doubted truth in blue; Listed red in ruin, Harried every hue; Barricaded vision, Garbed herself in sighs; Ridiculed the birthmarks Of the butterflies.Collection: Butterfly
Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.Collection: Butterfly
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 to the public.Collection: Butterfly
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would seem to be a pursuit of the physician as harmless as it is indispensable. [But] it seemed irresistibly rational to certain minds that diseases should be as fully classifiable as are beetles and butterflies. This doctrine ... bore perhaps its richest fruit in the hands of Boissier de Sauvauges. In his Nosologia Methodica published in 1768 ... this Linnaeus of the bedside grouped diseases into ten classes, 295 genera, and 2400 species.Collection: Butterfly
We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!Collection: Butterfly
A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.Collection: Butterfly
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men.Collection: Butterfly
Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.Collection: Butterfly
You've got to be like a butterfly and have a metamorphosis.Collection: Butterfly
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.Collection: Butterfly
The three states of the caterpillar, larva, and butterfly have, since the time of the Greek poets, been applied to typify the human being,--its terrestrial form, apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination.Collection: Butterfly
For years The National has been labeled as a gloomy kind of rock bandI think mostly because of Matt’s deep baritone voice, which even if he is singing about unicorns and butterflies, he just sounds sad most of the time.Collection: Butterfly
The butterflies will be jangling.Collection: Butterfly