Butterfly Quotes - Page 12

• Butterflies doing strange things in very beautiful ways were in my mind when I sat down, but by the time my pen was uncapped my thoughts had shifted to rocks.

  William Beebe

  Beautiful, Rocks, Mind

  William Beebe (1921). “Edge of the Jungle”

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• I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.

  Clarice Lispector

  Crush, Song, Mad

  Clarice Lispector (2012). “Água Viva”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• 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.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Science, Important, Branches

  Henry Walter Bates (1864). “The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature Under the Equator, During Eleven Years of Travel”, p.413

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• 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 and yet magnified all things

  Laurie Lee

  Rain, Air, Dust

  Laurie Lee (1959). “The edge of day: a boyhood in the west of England”

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• I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny.

  Elle Fanning

  People, Scary, Auditions

  "Elle Fanning on LOW DOWN, Jazz Music, Kissing Peter Dinklage, Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT, TRUMBO, and More". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 24, 2014.

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• When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Attitude, Iron, Romance

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels”, Gramercy

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• Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Giving, Rainbow, Lifetime

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• I cry really easily. If I see a butterfly, I'll practically burst into tears. So it's really hard for me to yell at people, because I'll feel so guilty about it. But if I don't, then they don't take me seriously and it's this endless cycle.

  Grimes

  People, Tears, Cry

  "Tavi Gevinson". Interview with Grimes, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. See how richly they are clad, he said. Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Jesus, Kings, Flower

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• You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

  Renata Scotto

  Years, Suffering, Too Much

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• I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere.

  Gillian Flynn

  Beautiful, Land, Ideas

  "Bringing Dark Places to Film: An Interview with Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn". Interview with Kristin Fritz, www.signature-reads.com. June 29, 2012.

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• 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 broken and empty.

  Lindsey Kelk

  Fall, Ideas, Broken

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• Happiness is like a butterfly.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Like A Butterfly

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• 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 be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

  Amitabh Bachchan

  Home, Night, People

  The CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. July 10, 2007.

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• I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Spirit, Feels

  FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Jan 25, 2013

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• The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

  Neil Gaiman

  Europe, Wings, Storm

  "Good Omens". Book by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, 1990.

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• Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.

  Rod McKuen

  Flower, Thinking, Yards

  Rod McKuen (1970). “Listen to the Warm”

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• Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.

  Paris Hilton

  Aquarius, Genius, Ridiculous

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• Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.

  Willie Stargell

  Knuckleballs, Hiccups, Neighbor

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• The consciousness and life force do what they want...
  one minute they put energy to repairing the damaged wing of a butterfly
  and the next minute they send a whole town crushing with tremendous force...
  who can work it out?

  Mooji

  Crush, Wings, Energy

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• 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.

  Giacomo Puccini

  Paper, Opera, Communicate

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• I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

  Kate Bosworth

  Social, Social Butterfly

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• The creative life of the commercial photographer is like the life of a butterfly. Very seldom do we see a photographer who is really productive for more than eight or ten years.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Eight, Years, Creative

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• Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly! Patience, hard work, dedication, never giving up, rising to the occasion and fighting through adversity will make you a champion; if there a will there's a way! Set your sails now but the ocean is very rough and treacherous however if you keep going you will get there.

  Jesse Taylor

  Giving Up, Ocean, Hard Work

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• A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Flower, Remains

  Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

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