Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert A. Heinlein

Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime - and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows.

Toni Morrison

Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

Tanith Lee

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Shailene Woodley

For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.

Shailene Woodley

The reason I keep acting is that it fuels some kind of passion in me, but the day that those butterflies stop, is the day that I'm gonna quit because I could care less about the magazines or being famous or the money or the awards.

Sue Monk Kidd

When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

Robbie Williams

Tel Aviv, Israel, me, Robbie Williams. I'm coming to see you. It's like a first date. I've got butterflies in my stomache, I can't wait. I hope you feel the same way too. There will be singing, there will be dancing, there will be banter, there will be love. Mainly from me, beaming it to you, from my heart into your heads and minds.

T. S. Eliot

If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.

Jostein Gaarder

I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

Kendrick Lamar

Although the butterfly and the caterpillar are completely different, they are one and the same.

Rainbow Rowell

Holding Eleanor’s hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive. As soon as he touched her, he wondered how he’d gone this long without doing it. He rubbed his thumb through her palm and up her fingers, and was aware of her every breath.

Richelle Mead

I felt a strange fluttering sensation in my chest. Butterflies, cardiac arrest . . . it was hard to say what exactly.

Russell Brand

People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materializes. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals -- you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.

Romeo Santos

I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.

Rick Warren

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Paul Tsongas

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

Pia Zadora

The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

Philip Yancey

Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as I saw on grand scale in photos from space telescopes or on minute scale such as in the intricate designs on a butterfly wing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness is like a butterfly...

Vernor Vinge

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.

Timothy Leary

The Caterpillar cannot understand the butterfly

Timothy Leary

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

Vita Sackville-West

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?

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.