Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Edith Wharton

She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

Denise Levertov

Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....

Alan Shearer

I still get butterflies when England are playing.

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.

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

Benjamin Franklin

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

Ranbir Kapoor

To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.

Seth Shostak

You may not see massive UFO exhibits at your local science museum, but there's no dearth of saucer stories infesting my email. Every day, I receive several reports of alien sightings, extraterrestrial plans for Earth, and agitated screeds about the reluctance of scientists to take the whole subject seriously.

Dennis Ritchie

At the same time, much of it seems to have to do with recreating things we or others had already done; it seems rather derivative intellectually; is there a dearth of really new ideas?

Tom Schrader

We're suffering from a dearth of information -- there's no economic news until Thursday.

Ned Riley

There has been a dearth of negative news, which to the market has to be a sign of good news.

Hiroichi Nishi

The market was short of upward momentum owing to a dearth of strong fund inflows from overseas investors.

Michael Greeley

There's such a dearth of very high-quality opportunities. Investors will move very aggressively right now.

Brian Tucker

There's a real dearth of trained engineers and scientists from Pakistan,

Betty Wright

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

John Gibbons

We're going to give this a go. That's our plan. If somebody is really hot and we're trying to win games, it may come down to that.

Andre Woodson

We're going to give it to the hot hand.

John Hamilton

When we got here on Monday, we rented a hotel and started to get help.

Bam Margera

I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.

Delta Burke

And sometimes, when you feel low on yourself, that's just when you have to go out there and be photographed or do a scene where you're hot stuff. You're always working on it.

Gina Lombardi

With the light-rail going in right next to us and all the development around, it makes our land a hot spot. You can't really stand in the way of it.

Curt Shaw

We knew what was on the line. The pressure was off after the loss to Hot Springs (Thursday).

Shashi Tharoor

A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in hot water.

Charles M. Schulz

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

Diana Vreeland

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity,

Dick Van Dyke

You can spread jelly on the peanut butter but you can't spread peanut butter on the jelly.

Johnny Bench

I pulled cotton at 6 years old and worked on the peanut farm and paper route.

Dan Shechtman

I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.

Anne Bishop

Werewolves and Arabians. It's like chocolate and peanut butter - a delicious combination.

Frank Zappa

Elmer has the mentality of approximately one peanut.

Gwen Stefani

I`m like a peanut butter sandwich.

Saxby Chambliss

There's always somebody who wants to take a shot at the peanut program,