Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Shearer

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

Jane Yolen

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Charles Baudelaire

I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

Edward R. Murrow

The best speakers know enough to be scared…the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

Barbara Hambly

...that was the first thing I had to learn about her, and maybe the hardest I've ever learned about anything - that she is her own, and what she gives me is of her choosing, and the more precious because of it. Sometimes a butterfly will come to sit in your open palm, but if you close your hand, one way or the other, it - and its choice to be there - are gone.

Catherynne M. Valente

Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

Caspar David Friedrich

I am not so weak as to submit to the demands of the age when they go against my convictions. I spin a cocoon around myself; let others do the same. I shall leave it to time to show what will come of it: a brilliant butterfly or maggot.

Charles Gounod

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them

Bill Gross

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

Carol Leifer

I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.

Carol Vorderman

I'd be happy to stay single now because I've always been in relationships. For the first time ever I can do what I want, when I want, with who I want, without answering to anyone.

Carlos Beltran

When you're close to your family, you want to be close to them.

Carlos Ghosn

When you want to turn around a company, you want to make sure that the solution is coming from inside.

Carlos Fuentes

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to protect themselves from our society. I don't want to be like that.

Carl Crawford

I just want to become a great leadoff hitter.

C. S. Lewis

Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy.

Agnetha Faltskog

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I feel sad, but this is not nostalgia, because I don't want time to come back.

Charles Dickens

A good thing can't be cruel.

Bertolt Brecht

What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.

Charles Spurgeon

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

Eike Batista

Nobody is happy alone. To share experiences is always a good thing.

Billy Collins

It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.

Doug Stanhope

I do good things in my life, too. It's just that none of them are funny.

Crispin Glover

A good thing to live by is to go after what truly interests you.

Amanda Beard

I know that I do deserve good things.

Alex Rodriguez

Therapy can be a good thing; it can be therapeutic.