Butterfly Quotes - Page 21

• Life is not only full of sound and fury. It also has butterflies, flowers, art.

  Claude Simon

  Art, Flower, Sound

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• There were successful ways of expressing the attitude and less successful ways. I think that spirit is very much alive today actually. That's what a certain generation of curators is alert to or on the look out for: an attitude. And it is a brilliant and moving spectacle when it happens. That suspension of disbelief is something that we all respond to. But it's hard to capture the butterfly without tearing the wings off of it.

  David Salle

  Attitude, Moving, Successful

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I confess to being something of a philosophical butterfly. The world is full of so many interesting questions, and although my greatest passion is for some form of applied ethics, that leaves me with oodles of possibilities, many of which I have never had the time or opportunity to explore in great depth.

  John Kleinig

  Philosophical, Passion, Opportunity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I guess the wildcard here is Terrence Malick. He supervised me while I was writing the script for Beautiful Country, and he is a genius, although not always easy to follow. What I learned from him is that the narrative can be tracked through all kinds of scenes, that the strong narrative thread is not always the one that is most obvious. Creating narrative with Malick was a bit like chasing a butterfly through a jungle. This approach to narrative is fun and complicated, something that makes the process of writing constantly interesting to this writer.

  Sabina Murray

  Beautiful, Country, Strong

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

  Trina

  Flower, Sky, World

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• Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

  William Blake

  Judgement, Lasts, Moths

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 37

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• Never before has information been so important, to governments and businesses alike. And please don't imagine that some of you gathered here today may be less concerned than others. Globalization means that the "butterfly effect" is everywhere at work. The mistakes of a stockbroker in Singapore or the collapse of the Baht in Bangkok, the decisions of a Finnish industrial concern, or what the Governor of Minas Gerais in Brazil decides to do about his State's debt, have had consequences for the world as a whole.

  Jacques Chirac

  Business, Mistake, Mean

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• There is a difference between our wisdom and nature's simplicity. That reflects the burden of a complex intelligence. A complex intelligence like ours is impotent compared to the intelligence of a monarch butterfly migrating from Canada to Mexico, or the intelligence of hummingbirds that have co-evolved with the flowers all along their migration route. That seems so simple; it just happens, it just unfolds.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Flower, Simple, Differences

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• I believe in positive despotism. That means an exchange between people. I'm thinking about the fact that someone serves me breakfast in my bed. I can not see anything wrong in that. Because everything is a question of exchanges between people. Everyone has some specific possibilities and can to a certain extent do whatever they want. If one wants to become rich one can study economy and if one wants to be poor one can choose to become a professor in butterfly wings for example. So we can choose.

  Odd Nerdrum

  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Source: sturm-lie.be

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• When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.

  Bob Dylan

  Fall, Thinking, Moon

  "Bob Dylan Not Like a Rolling Stone Interview". "Spin" Magazine Interview with Scott Cohen, www.interferenza.com. December 1985.

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• If you're dating a man who you think might be "Mr. Right," if he a) got older, b) got a new job, or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a nasty surprise. The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on cocoons and butterflies.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Jobs, Humor

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• Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.

  Max Lucado

  Light, May, Chasing

  Twitter post from Jul 17, 2015

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• You know I still get nervous speaking in front of people. Speaking reminds me of pitching in that way. No matter how much you prepare, there is always that anxiety to perform. Those butterflies. You learn to embrace that stress. Eventually you realize that stress is what pushes you to perform at your peak.... But man the roller coaster! I told myself that after my career was over I would live my life quietly, out of the public eye, with no chance of embarrassing myself in front of large groups of people. Yet...here I am!

  Jim Abbott

  Stress, Eye, Men

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• O beautiful white land,
  olives and wild anemone and violet
  mingled among the shale,
  and purple wings
  of little winter-butterflies
  say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.332, New Directions Publishing

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• That author who draws a character, even though to common view incongruous in its parts, as the flying-squirrel, and, at differentperiods, as much at variance with itself as the caterpillar is with the butterfly into which it changes, may yet, in so doing, be not false but faithful to facts.

  Herman Melville

  Character, Creativity, Views

  Herman Melville (1988). “The Confidence-man: His Masquerade”, p.70, Northwestern University Press

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• They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet.

  Lee Trevino

  Land, Feet, Ems

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• They [the children] live in a world of delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never existed; they make an Argosy laden with gold out of a floating butterfly,--and these stupid [grown-up people] try to translate these things into uninteresting facts.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Children, Stupid, Imagination

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• I still get butterflies on the first tee. I still get sweaty hands, and my heart pumps a lot going down the 18th. But I know what winning is all about now, and that's a feeling that I like.

  Annika Sorenstam

  Heart, Winning, Hands

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• When someone comes to you with big dreams, don't be too quick to belittle their ambition and dreams. Inspire and help them in any way you can. Even the beautiful butterfly was once a caterpillar.

  Rita Zahara

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Dream

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• Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

  Lynn Margulis

  Looks, Caterpillars, Knows

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• Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the roots of orchids, jaguars walked the river's edge; around them eight hundred species of trees stood, more than are native to all of North America; and a thousand species of butterflies, 6 percent of the entire world fauna, waited for the dawn.

  E. O. Wilson

  Eight, Orchids, Roots

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• I've always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I've talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I'll have more butterflies.

  Cillian Murphy

  Play, Television, Safe

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• It's a business now. But you still have little butterflies in your stomach before every game.

  Chris Paul

  Games, Littles, Stomach

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• One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting butterflies in a similar way. The image or a reference to the image is traced throughout the four separate narratives. It sometimes seems to be the only link between the pieces, while the symbol Nabokov cuts remains wide open, a pencil sketch, a mystery to interpret outside his role as emigrant/observer.

  Samantha Hunt

  Book, Writing, Cutting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Different, Caterpillars

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