Quotes about butterfly
butterfly writing wings
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. Margaret Atwood
butterfly essence creatures
If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies. Patricia Velasquez
butterfly golf upset
The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. P. G. Wodehouse
butterfly jewels data
Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box. Paul Saffo
butterfly wings yesterday
My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends... Freddie Mercury
butterfly wind ridiculous
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. Milan Kundera
butterfly character adversity
As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger. Joseph B. Wirthlin
butterfly adversity destiny
Without adversity, the butterfly would never have the strength to achieve its destiny. It would never develop the strength to become something extraordinary. Joseph B. Wirthlin
butterfly clouds snow
The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow. Joaquin Miller
butterfly thinking giving
It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.' Novak Djokovic
butterfly sky majesty
A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky - Emily Dickinson
butterfly blue genuine-happiness
And whether this happiness lasted a hundred seconds or ten minutes, it was so far removed from time that it resembled every other genuine happiness as completely as one fluttering blue lycaenid butterfly resembles another. Hermann Hesse
butterfly dark thinking
Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons. Helen Oyeyemi
butterfly writing men
On of the reasons that I wanted to study literature was because it exposed everything. Writers looked for secrets that had never been mined. Every writer has to invent their own magical language, in order to describe the indescribable. They might seem to be writing in French, English, or Spanish, but really they were writing in the language of butterflies, crows, and hanged men. Heather O'Neill
butterfly important branches
The study of butterflies-creatures selected as the types of airiness and frivolity-instead of being despised, will some day be valued as one of the most important branches of Biological science. Henry Walter Bates
butterfly pride loss
I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them. Henry Ward Beecher
butterfly wind gone
I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug. Malcolm X
butterfly character creating
I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that. Gene Wilder
butterfly want good-things
You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing. Joan Jett
butterfly names different
I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly. Serena Williams
butterfly wings decision
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. Scott Anderson
butterfly butterfly-wings wings
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
butterfly europe wings
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
butterfly views europe
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. Neil Gaiman
butterfly perfect joy
Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. John Muir
butterfly games play
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. John Starks
butterfly cockroaches body
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
butterfly eerie snakes
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! Nicole Kidman
butterfly responsibility levels
I still get butterflies. It's because there's a certain level of responsibility you carry when doing a concert. You've got to sound at least as good as the record. Michael Bolton
butterfly wings incense
Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings Matsuo Basho
butterfly together miles
Come, butterfly It's late- We've miles to go together. Matsuo Basho
butterfly
Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away. Laura Miller
butterfly feelings flying
It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind. Laura Miller