Butterfly Quotes - Page 26

• Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

  Matsuo Basho

  Air, White, Ballet

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• And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

  Laini Taylor

  Blood, Rushing, Perfect

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• Romantic comedies are there to give us dreams and butterflies, but what we can create in our own lives could be not only better but real.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Dream, Real, Giving

  "The Day I Shot Cupid". Book by Jennifer Love Hewitt, www.today.com. 2010.

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• I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

  Janice Mirikitani

  Confidence, Healing, Wings

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• I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Fighting, Pride, Loss

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.145

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• It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out for years." "So they become butterflies when they finally come out?" my little sister Christina asked. "No," Mom said. "They're still caterpillars, only now they're big fat caterpillars that smell.

  Neal Shusterman

  Mom, Teenager, Years

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “The Schwa was here”

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• To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.

  Denis Diderot

  Women, Dust, Color

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• Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

  Muhammad Ali

  Eye, Greatness, Hands

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• The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Rip, Nfl, Crowds

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• It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Survival, Dinosaurs, Bees

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.266, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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• ... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

  Lisa Genova

  Beautiful, Mean, Tragic

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• To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind.

  Violette Leduc

  Memories, Thinking, Wind

  Violette Leduc (1965). “La bâtarde: an autobiography”

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• Despite the creations of new sections, secret intelligence activity remained mistrusted and neglected in military circles, although there were a few enthusiasts like Baden-Powell, who went on foreign trips disguised as a butterfly collector and regarded spying as sport.

  Clive Ponting

  Sports, Military, Circles

  Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”

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• We liked to be known as the clever girls. When we decorated our hands with henna for holidays and weddings, we drew calculus and chemical formulae instead of flowers and butterflies.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Girl, Clever, Flower

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• If possible, be Russian. And live in another country. Play chess. Be an active trader between languages. Carry precious metals from one to the other. Remind us of Stravinsky. Know the names of plants and flying creatures. Hunt gauzy wings with snares of gauze. Make science pay tribute. Have a butterfly known by your name.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Life, Country, Play

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• There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Stars, Yellow

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.

  Shailene Woodley

  Scripts, Industry, Ifs

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• I'm a social butterfly. Once I get somewhere, I can make myself at ease and start the team bonding and build a relationship with my team, all my teammates, all the coaches, all the coaching staff.

  Drew Gooden

  Team, Coaching, Ease

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• 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.

  Tim Walker

  College, Stories, Littles

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• You always get nervous on stage because when you get up there, you want to do great. The crowd has you pumped up so there are always a little bit of butterflies. That's all part of it. But as far as getting stage fright, clamming up there, not generally, I just enjoy it on stage and have a great time.

  Easton Corbin

  Crowds, Want, Littles

  Source: thefirst3songs.com

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• I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound at least as good as the record.

  Michael Bolton

  Responsibility, Sound, Records

  "Michael Bolton: I never realised my hair was such a big deal". Interview with Rhiannon Vivian, www.mirror.co.uk. October 12, 2008.

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• 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.

  Ian Stewart

  Wings, Atmosphere, Atheism

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• The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.

  John Harricharan

  Grief, Grieving, Life And Death

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• All the butterflies and cockyolybirds would fly past me.

  Charles Kingsley

  Past

  Charles Kingsley (2016). “The Water Babies”, p.217, Charles Kingsley

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