Butterfly Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• Sweet freedom whispered in my ear, you're a butterfly, and butterflies are free to fly, fly away, high-away, bye-bye.

  Elton John

  Sweet, Bye, Ears

  Song: Someone Saved My Life Tonight

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• Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Memories, Mean, Fading

  Rebecca Solnit (2013). “The Faraway Nearby”, p.10, Granta Books

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• I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."

  Niecy Nash

  Baby, Eyelashes, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're in young love your pulse pounds, your palms sweat, and there are butterflies in your stomach. It's like diarrhea for your heart.

  Daniel Tosh

  Love You, Heart, Sweat

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• The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Beautiful, Joy, Becoming

  Cynthia Ozick (1991). “The Pagan Rabbi and Other Stories”, E P Dutton

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• Who when examining in the cabinet of the entomologist the gay and exotic butterflies, and singular cicadas, will associate with these lifeless objects, the ceaseless harsh music of the latter, and the lazy flight of the former - the sure accompaniments of the still, glowing noonday of the tropics.

  Charles Darwin

  Gay, Glowing, Lazy

  Charles Darwin (1864). “Journal of Researches Into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World: Under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy”, p.299

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• I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

  Kate Bosworth

  Social, Social Butterfly

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• Happiness is like a butterfly.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Like A Butterfly

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• When romances do really teach anything, or produce any effective operation, it is usually through a far more subtle process than the ostensible one. The author has considered it hardly worth his while, therefore, relentlessly to impale the story with its moral as with an iron rod-or, rather, as by sticking a pin through a butterfly-thus at once depriving it of life, and causing it to stiffen in an ungainly and unnatural attitude.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Attitude, Iron, Romance

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1993). “Nathaniel Hawthorne: three complete novels”, Gramercy

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

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Giving, Rainbow, Lifetime

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.326, Penguin

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• You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

  Renata Scotto

  Years, Suffering, Too Much

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