Butterfly Quotes - Page 20

• In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

  Dr. Seuss

  Teacher, Funny Inspirational, Diversity

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• I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered and aired my graces like a born beau, and polkaed and schoisched with a step peculiar to myself - and the kangaroo.

  Mark Twain

  Dance, Party, Dancing

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• We have been distracted into unnatural motivations: money, prestige, power. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you money. Listening to the cuckoo is not going to give you power, prestige. Watching the butterfly is not going to help you economically, politically, socially. These things are not paying, but these things make you happy.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Motivation, Giving

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• Love, as is told by the seers of old,
  Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
  Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
  Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Love, Life, Heart

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• Some things, when they change, never do return to the way they once were. Butterflies for instance, and women who've been in love with the wrong man too often.

  Alice Hoffman

  Men, Way, Return

  FaceBook post by Alice Hoffman from Apr 15, 2016

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• His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered

  Ann Aguirre

  Wings, Dove, Lashes

  Ann Aguirre (2013). “Horde”, p.228, Macmillan

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• The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

  Anthony de Mello

  Selfish, Eggs, Eagles

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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• ... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world.

  Henry Walter Bates

  Nature, Writing, Science

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

  Ryokan Taigu

  Buddhist, Flower, Mind

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• God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

  Rick Warren

  I Hate You, Anxiety, Coal

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• The typical nature photograph shows a butterfly on a pretty flower. The conservation photograph shows the same thing, but with a bulldozer coming at it in the background.

  Joel Sartore

  Nature, Flower, Typical

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• Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies.

  Ilona Andrews

  Badass, Light, Iron

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Magic Dreams: A Penguin Special from Ace”, p.35, Penguin

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• Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.

  Marcus O'Sullivan

  Sports, Running, Hate

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• How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Spring, Sunset

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.103, Bantam

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• Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

  Taryne Mowatt

  Inspirational, Softball, Juice

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• It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

  Francisco Lopez

  Golf, Flying, Formation

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• You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

  Bill Gross

  Chasing Butterflies, Rose, Adages

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• Occasionally I do movies with other directors. I did 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' for Julian Schnabel. I did a movie with Jim Brooks ('How Do You Know'). I did a movie with Judd Apatow ('Funny People'). So I do get a chance to work with other people, which is always enjoyable, always pleasant. But still, Steven [Spielberg] makes the types of movies that I'm interested in as well.

  Janusz Kaminski

  People, Directors, Bells

  Source: screenrant.com

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• These days, you'd probably shoot it in the daylight and manipulate it in the post. That's [how] most people would do it. [I did the same thing with] with 'Diving Bell and the Butterfly'. No CGI. It's all live photography. And I like that, it's very challenging and exciting to be able to do that.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Photography, People, Challenges

  Source: screenrant.com

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• The design of the notorious Palm Beach County "butterfly ballot" in the 2000 Presidential election is certainly one of them. But I would say most of the time this is less about a conscious attempt to manipulate an outcome, and more about pure ineptitude.

  Michael Bierut

  Beach, Presidential, Design

  Source: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org

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• One day I decided I would like to put a record into my system. So I picked up a record that was lying on the table, and put it on. I didn't bother to look at what it was because I didn't care, and it turned out to be Madame Butterfly. So I processed the aria from Madame Butterfly in my system and I played with it.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Lying, One Day, Looks

  Source: artsmania.ca

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• How can we trace out the links between actions that people take today and really long-term outcomes for humanity - outcomes that stretch out indefinitely into the future? I call this effort macrostrategy - that is, to think about the really big strategic situation for having a positive impact on the long-term future. There's the butterfly effect: A small change in an initial condition could have arbitrarily large consequences.

  Nick Bostrom

  Thinking, People, Effort

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

  Jostein Gaarder

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• Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.

  Ville Valo

  Tattoo, Wall, People

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• Don't waste your time chasing butterflies. Mend your garden, and the butterflies will come.

  Mario Quintana

  Inspirational, Time, Garden

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