Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nigella Lawson

What I'm doing here is seeking to offer protection from life, solely through the means of potato, butter and cream... there are times when only mashed potato will do.

Jane Yolen

You can only chase a butterfly for so long.

Tom Lenk

I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Timothy Ferriss

If retirement means laying on a beach and rubbing coco butter on your stomach, about 48 hours of that will be enough for most people. You'll want something new.

Brendan Gill

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

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.

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.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Daniel Handler

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that

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.

We're playing for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and you'd think we're playing for $100 per person.

Charles Bukowski

What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do?" "Catch butterflies

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

Bill Gross

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

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.

Would you rather have butter or guns? Preparedness makes us powerful. Butter merely makes us fat.

Fergie

In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.

Not as much as we used to. There's a lot of butter in there.

I spent my pregnancy lying on the couch, eating peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and working on a budget.

I know a viscous butter sauce when I eat one, and that was one indeed!

Clint Hurdle

I really didn't understand while I was reading it, but it told a story of a man who saw a butterfly trying to come out of a cocoon, and he picked it up and cut the cocoon away from the butterfly, thinking he was going to help free it,

Suzanne Farrell

If you use butter or margarine now, just switch over to one of these sterol-fortified spreads.

Gerald Brenan

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Dominik Hasek

I don't know if he surprised me. I went to make a butterfly stop and went down. He shot it top shelf and my glove wasn't there. It was a goal scorer's move.

I'm waiting for Butter to get here before I cut the rest off.

Neil Gaiman

The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

Neil Gaiman

It used to be thought that the events that changed the world were things like big bombs, maniac politicians, huge earthquakes, or vast population movements, but it has now been realized that this is a very old-fashioned view held by people totally out of touch with modern thought. The things that really change the world, according to Chaos theory, are the tiny things. A butterfly flaps its wings in the Amazonian jungle, and subsequently a storm ravages half of Europe.

John Muir

Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness.