Butterfly Quotes - Page 18

• Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken. Defeat strips away false values and makes you realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.

  William Moulton Marston

  Work, Taken, Knowledge

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• You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

  Timothy Leary

  Use, Language, Caterpillars

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• 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.

  Robbie Williams

  Heart, Israel, Dancing

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• A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Love, Rain, Dark

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• She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her mind. She doesn't want me to dress better or put highlights in my hair or serious up. I'm not a lifestyle accessory to her. I'm a necessity. I'm the guy that's going to crack open her cocoon. She doesn't need to change me - she needs me to change her. At least until her little butterfly wings get strong enough to fly away.

  Tim Tharp

  Girl, Strong, Reading

  Tim Tharp (2014). “The Spectacular Now”, p.145, Scholastic UK

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• You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

  T.A. Barron

  Stars, Wings, Soul

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• There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call "death," is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Death, Two, Design

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.501, Ageless Reads

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• 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 Baudelaire

  Bird, Together, Unions

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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• Now I am in the garden at the back . . . a very preserve of butterflies as I remember it, with a high fence, and a gate . . . where the fruit clusters on the trees, riper and richer than fruit has ever been since, in any other garden, and where my mother gathers some in a basket while I stand by, bolting furtive gooseberries, and trying to look unnerved.

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Garden, Tree

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.10

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• You cannot direspect the caterpillar and rave about the butterfly.

  Mark Jackson

  Rave, Caterpillars

  "Shocking! Former Warriors Coach Mark Jackson Chooses James Harden Over Steph Curry For MVP" by Jack Winter, uproxx.com. April 2, 2015.

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• Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn’t give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls
  I’m talking terrible internal bruising and the first time I kissed her was like the first time I saw fireworks, which was like the sky first kissing me in the eyeballs

  George Watsky

  Girl, Kissing, Talking

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• From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!

  Anna Sui

  Tattoo, People, T Shirt

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• It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

  Gabby Douglas

  Focus, Looks, Tough

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• There weren't butterflies in my stomach, there were fire breathing dragons.

  Emme

  Fire, Dragons, Breathing

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• Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

  Emme

  Home, Perfect, Waiting

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• You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beautiful, Flower, Fall

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from Jun 25, 2010

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• The rattle of plastic keys reminds me of a squadron of butterflies failing to fight their way out of a paper bag.

  Clive James

  Fighting, Keys, Bags

  Clive James (2009). “Reliable Essays: The Best of Clive James: Reliable Essays:The Best of Clive James”, p.164, Pan Macmillan

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

  Matsuo Basho

  Wind

  Matsuo Basho, “With Every Gust Of Wind”

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• During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence

  Edith Hahn Beer

  Night, Long, Silence

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• Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Art, Here I Am

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• A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Nature, Flower, Remains

  Rabindranath Tagore (1976). “Fireflies”

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• 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

  Wind, Gone, Remember

  "The Autobiography of Malcolm X". Book by Alex Haley and Malcolm X, 1965.

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• We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Wise, Fun, Extravagance

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• After his death the gardener does not become a butterfly, intoxicated by the perfumes of the flowers, but a garden worm tasting all the dark, nitrogenous, and spicy delights of the soil.

  Karel Capek

  Flower, Dark, Garden

  Karel Capek (2002). “The Gardener's Year”

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• Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

  George Gamow

  Stars, Science, Elephants

  George Gamow (1970). “A Star Called the Sun”

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