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.

Charlie Chaplin

Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.

David Allen

There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but the way out is through.

Alan Parker

Have a go. Anybody can do it.

Alan Alda

People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.

Eckhart Tolle

You create a good future by creating a good present.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I realize that after decades of positive thinking the notion of realism, of things as they are, may seem a little quaint. ... When the stakes are high enough and the risks obvious, we still turn to people who can be counted on to understand those risks and prepare for worst-case scenarios. A chief of state does not want to hear a general in the field say that he 'hopes' to win tomorrow's battle or that he's 'visualizing victory' ...

Barbara Ehrenreich

There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.

Brian Tracy

You become what you think about most of the time.

Brian Tracy

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Arthur Symons

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

Arthur Golden

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

Carrie Fisher

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

E. M. Forster

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along

Aaron Allston

Life is like an analogy.

Kirk Douglas

Life is like a B-picture script.

Kid Cudi

My life is like a speeding bullet that just hasn't hit the target yet.

Oscar Wilde

Life is like a box of terrible analogies...

Seth Rogen

I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.