Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kami Garcia

Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

Nicole Kidman

I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.

Nicole Kidman

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

P. G. Wodehouse

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

Paul Saffo

Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.

Pat Cooper

One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.

Pat Barker

Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem for the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.

Jodi Picoult

I imagined what it would be like to hold a butterfly in your hands something bejeweled and treasured and to know that despite your devotion it was dying by degrees.

Muhammad Ali

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.

Mark Jackson

You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.

R. Buckminster Fuller

One can study a caterpillar forever and never be able to predict a butterfly.

Margaret Atwood

While he writes, I feel as if he is drawing me; or not drawing me, drawing on me - drawing on my skin - not with the pencil he is using, but with an old-fashioned goose pen, and not with the quill end but with the feather end. As if hundreds of butterflies have settled all over my face, and are softly opening and closing their wings.

Paris Hilton

Aquarius[es] are social butterflies, humanitarians, geniuses: Einstein was one.

Lauren Oliver

A room full of words that are nearly the truth but not quite, each note fluttering off the steam of its rose like a broken butterfly wing.

Patricia Velasquez

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's 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?

Serena Williams

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

Scott Anderson

History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

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.

John Starks

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

Norah Jones

Don't go chasing after butterflies, when everything you want is right by your side.

Nora Roberts

Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. "What are you thinking?" "About bombs," she answered blandly, "deadly camoflaged bombs." She gave him a quick,innocent grin. "Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving.

Niels Bohr

One thought spectra are marvellous, but it is not possible to make progress there. Just as if you have the wing of a butterfly then certainly it is very regular with the colors and so on, but nobody thought one could get the basis of biology from the coloring of the wing of a butterfly.

Matsuo Basho

With every gust of wind, the butterfly changes its place on the willow.

Matsuo Basho

Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

Matsuo Basho

Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

Matsuo Basho

Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together.

Marisha Pessl

Some people are as fragile as butterflies and sensitive and it’s your responsibility not to destroy them. Just because you can

Marianne Moore

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.