Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Wyatt

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar

Tori Amos

And is it right, butterfly, they like you better framed and dried?

Vanessa Hudgens

I feel like the spirit of the butterfly transferred itself to me.

William Blake

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

Samuel Beckett

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

Stephen Colbert

I've got butterflies in my stomach... because I ate a cocoon quesadilla!

Stephen Colbert

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

Thomas Haynes Bayly

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

Tim Walker

Even the pictures I was doing at college - a little narrative based on a butterfly catcher, or a chimney sweep - the images were always telling stories. They were all scenarios and moods which I storyboarded and worked through - it's exactly what I do now.

Geraldine Brooks

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.

Georges St-Pierre

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

Jeffrey Kluger

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

Jeanette Winterson

I can't catch her by copying her, I can't draw her with a borrowed stencil. She is all the things a lover should be and quite a few a lover should not. Pin her down? She's not a butterfly. I'm not a wrestler. She's not a target. I'm not a gun. Tell you what she is? She's not Lot no. 27 and I'm not one to brag.

Jerry Spinelli

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

Jason Momoa

My favorite movie is 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Ernest Hemingway

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Grimes

I cry really easily. If I see a butterfly, I'll practically burst into tears. So it's really hard for me to yell at people, because I'll feel so guilty about it. But if I don't, then they don't take me seriously and it's this endless cycle.

Ian Stewart

The flapping of a single butterfly's wing today produces a tiny change in the state of the atmosphere. Over a period of time, what the atmosphere actually does diverges from what it would have done. So, in a month's time, a tornado that would have devastated the Indonesian coast doesn't happen. Or maybe one that wasn't going to happen, does.

Ian Somerhalder

Within hours, tweetted piece of information you've just doled out has become a monsoon, a hurricane of tangible energy that is literally circulating the world. It's helped me sense the undeniable truth of quantum consciousness, the whole butterfly effect. I witness it daily. Being witness to it not only makes me come alive, it enables me to maintain hope.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

Chris Paul

It's a business now. But you still have little butterflies in your stomach before every game.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Sweet potatoes are ideal for lazy days: just bake, then mash and mix with yogurt, butter or olive oil.

It's a new version of the butterfly effect. A hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico can lead to higher prices around the world. That's how vulnerable oil markets are today to events outside of our control. And it shows how little room there is for errors.

Eva Green

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles.

Harry Styles

I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?

Gunter Grass

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

Kristin Cavallari

I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.

Imogene Coca

The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.

J. K. Rowling

Ron: Why spiders? Why couldn't it be "follow the butterflies?

Guillermo del Toro

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

Jennifer Armintrout

No one's place in this world is guaranteed. Not everyone is going to get a happy ending. But life isn't about how it ends. It's about the moments between. It's about the small things. The way our loved ones laugh. The sight of a butterfly in the sunlight after a year or two in the darkness. The love and support of an old friend. They might not be with us in body, but they are with us in spirit. ... Because every day, on this planet, people are born and people die and stranger things happen.(Armintrout, All Souls' Night, 367)

Jean Dubuffet

With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.

Giacomo Puccini

The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.