Butterfly Quotes - Page 25

• Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

  Matsuo Basho

  Wings, Incense

  c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.166 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

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• With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain indistinguishable - with the aim of producing a very vivid effect of scintillation, I realised that, for me, this responds to needs of the same order as those that formerly led me, in many drawings and paintings, to organize my lines and patches of colour so that the objects represented would meld into everything around them, so that the result would be a sort of continuous, universal soup with an intensive flavour of life.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Order, Wings, Drawing

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• When I try to describe how I feel when you hold me, I get butterflies, I hear lullabies, it's hard to explain -- like the scent of a rose or the sound of the rain. It's too precious and too wonderful to give it a name.

  Christina Aguilera

  Rain, Names, Giving

  Song: Too Beautiful For Words

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• It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.

  Theodore Parker

  Nature, Nice, Fire

  Theodore Parker “Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]”

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• I have discovered that our great favourite, Miss Austen, is my countrywoman...with whom mamma before her marriage was acquainted. Mamma says that she was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she ever remembers...

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Husband, Hunting, Missing

  "The Life of Mary Russell Mitford", vol. 1, by Mary Russell Mitford, (letter to Sir William Elford, 1st Baronet), 1870.

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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• It was the bumble bee and the butterfly who survived, not the dinosaur.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Survival, Dinosaurs, Bees

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.266, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.

  Janice Mirikitani

  Confidence, Healing, Wings

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• ...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Soul, Captivity, Persons

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• I think that when young players really see their game rise next level, it's when practices are like competition and there's no separation there. Of course, there are adrenaline and the butterflies; you don't have that so much in practice. You want to fake yourself out and try to get them there because you want to be as close to that game mentality as you can when you step on that field every single day whether it's practice or in your backyard or down the street with your dad.

  Jennie Finch

  Dad, Player, Thinking

  Source: fastpitch.tv

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• I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly or La Vie en Rose. And I love my role in Frantic.

  Emmanuelle Seigner

  Nice, Rose, Bells

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• I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.

  Kenneth P. Thompson

  Community, Negative, Nests

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• Beautiful thoughts flit across the brain, like butterflies in the sun's rays, and are as difficult to capture.

  Anna Cora Mowatt

  Beautiful, Brain, Sun

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• I just woke up and found a large butterfly on me. When did that happen?

  Harry Styles

  Found, Happens

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2013

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• Love is like a butterfly
  As soft and gentle as a sigh
  The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings
  Love makes your heart feel strange inside
  It flutters like soft wings in flight
  Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

  Dolly Parton

  Heart, Love Is, Wings

  Song: Love Is Like A Butterfly

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• Scientifically speaking, a butterfly is at least as mysterious as a superstring. When something ceases to be mysterious it ceases to be of absorbing interest to scientists. Almost all things scientists think and dream about are mysterious.

  Freeman Dyson

  Dream, Thinking, Mysterious

  "Infinite in All Directions". Book by Freeman Dyson, 1988.

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• You can't force inspiration. It's like trying to catch a butterfly with a hoop but no net. If you keep your mind open and receptive, though, one day a butterfly will land on your finger.

  Chuck Jones

  Inspiration, Land, Mind

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• Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Mistake, Addiction

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.160, OUP Oxford

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• My daughter, the Butterfly Girl, is 21 years old. She is not married. That third verse, in Butterfly Kisses, where I marry her off is only an "artists projection" to when she's 85 and out of the convent!

  Bob Carlisle

  Girl, Daughter, Kissing

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• Within hours, tweetted piece of information you've just doled out has become a monsoon, a hurricane of tangible energy that is literally circulating the world. It's helped me sense the undeniable truth of quantum consciousness, the whole butterfly effect. I witness it daily. Being witness to it not only makes me come alive, it enables me to maintain hope.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Pieces, Alive, World

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• It's emotion. When you are watching a movie you see a woman sitting with her daughter and looking in her eyes and you see butterflies flying in the background and then you suddenly hear scary movie music and it changes the whole thing. But if something sounds different it changes the movie. Music is the back drop of what you talk about.

  Yung Joc

  Daughter, Eye, Scary

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• I went to school with butterflies of fear every day for years - from primary school onwards - not just worried about being bullied by classmates, but by teachers.

  Robert Winston

  Teacher, School, Years

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• All my life I've swam in the loo butterfly style.

  Faina Ranevskaya

  Style

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• I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.

  Stephen Curry

  Thinking, Inspirational Basketball, Nervous

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

  Norah Jones

  Your Side, Want, Sides

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