Butterfly Quotes - Page 27

• If you look at Marriage of Figaro or Butterfly or Traviata, all of those elements are in there. I also have to have a very specific location in mind. The physical environment of where the opera takes place is very key - the "sound world."

  Jake Heggie

  Keys, Mind, Sound

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Wings, World, Iridescent

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• Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.

  Denise Linn

  Ocean, Flower, Light

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• We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.

  Sue Thoele

  Eye, Reflection, Breathing

  Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind”, p.137, Conari Press

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• Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Differences, Analysis

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• It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.

  Ann Patchett

  Dream, Distance, Practice

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.28, A&C Black

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• Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all.

  Gail Carriger

  Cat, Wings, Gossip

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• A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

  Barbara Ascher

  Church, Vines, Red

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• One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.

  Pat Cooper

  Italian, People, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.

  Manika

  Rocks, Stage, Stomach

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• I believe I'm a caterpillar buried deep down under the ground. The entire earth is above me, crushing me and I begin to bore through the soil, making a passage to the surface so that I can penetrate the crust and issue into the light. It's hard work boring through the entire earth, but I'm able to be patient because I have a strong premonition that as soon as I do issue into the light I shall become a butterfly.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Crush, Strong, Believe

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• With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

  Robert Genn

  Integrity, Winning, Open Minded

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• Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

  Alexander Pope

  Wheels, Satire, Break

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 307 (1735)

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• We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Faith, Wise, Flower

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• An experimental science is supposed to perform experiments that find generalities. It's not just supposed to tally up a long list of individual cases and their unique life histories. That's butterfly collecting.

  Richard Lewontin

  Unique, Long, Lists

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