Butterfly Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• What unnerves so many liberals about talk radio? Simple: It's the unapologetic nature of the conversation, the unwavering sense of certainty. Where's the nuance? The shades of gray? We all know truth is a fragile butterfly dancing in and out of shadow and light, and these guys act as though truth is a rhino charging across a sunlit veldt.

  James Lileks

  Simple, Rhinos, Light

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• He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Horse, Wings, Grace

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• One day, I was running to the river. Along the way there was the most exquisite butterfly, a tiny little thing, on the pavement. I kind of jumped over it. And then two days later I woke up in the middle of the night with a character running, jumping over butterflies on the streets of Nairobi. After that, I followed the story. The story wrote itself.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Running, Character, Night

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not a real crazy social butterfly - and once I realised that and I accepted it, I started to realise how many people weren't accepting of that.

  Hayley Williams

  Crazy, Real, People

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• A lot of incredible rap albums over the past couple of decades have deserved Album of the Year. 'To Pimp a Butterfly' is an extension of those albums.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Couple, Rap, Past

  "Kendrick Lamar Knows How to Deal with the Grammys Censors". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. February 12, 2016.

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• We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.

  John Assaraf

  Doe, Becoming, Metamorphosis

  Source: insearchofheroes.com

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• I get butterflies just like everyone else. So I meditate for at least ten minutes before I perform. I breathe in and out slowly for ten minutes, and that literally helps me slow my heart rate and relax.

  Matthew Moy

  Heart, Relax, Helping

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• My family didn't go to church. Once when I slept over at the house of a friend, her parents brought me to Sunday school with her. I was given this little pamphlet of tiny poems about the natural world, about butterflies and sunsets. My 7-year-old self was so astounded by how these few words were creating pictures and feelings in me.

  Cheryl Strayed

  School, Sunset, Sunday

  Interview with Amy Sutherland, www.bostonglobe.com. March 2, 2013.

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• 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

  Scripts, Industry, Ifs

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• 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.

  Tim Walker

  College, Stories, Littles

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• The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one. So, when I die, it will be that I have been transformed from the caterpillar of earth to the butterfly of the universe.

  John Harricharan

  Grief, Grieving, Life And Death

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• Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled in the excuisite and eternal ocean of here and now. When you are, you can connect with your true self that is beyond the chattering of your mind. When you take the effort to focus your drifting consciousness to become fully awake to the present moment, you will discover the glorious light that dwells within you.

  Denise Linn

  Ocean, Flower, Light

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• We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.

  Sue Thoele

  Eye, Reflection, Breathing

  Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind”, p.137, Conari Press

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• We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!" Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast! What man can look on Death unterrified?

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Faith, Wise, Flower

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• There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Stars, Yellow

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?

  Alexander Pope

  Wheels, Satire, Break

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 307 (1735)

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• Art is like a butterfly fluttering in a meadow. Analysis of art is like a butterfly on a pin. Each has its value, but we must always be aware of the difference, and what is gained or lost.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Differences, Analysis

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• With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.

  Robert Genn

  Integrity, Winning, Open Minded

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• Lord Akeldama did so love to know all the gossip about the mundane world, but it was in the manner of a cat amusing himself among the butterflies without a need to interfere should their wings get torn off. They were only butterflies, after all.

  Gail Carriger

  Cat, Wings, Gossip

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• It turns out that the distance from head to hand, from wafting butterfly to entomological specimen, is achieved through regular practice. What begins as something like a dream will in fact stay a dream forever unless you have the tools and the discipline to bring it out.

  Ann Patchett

  Dream, Distance, Practice

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.28, A&C Black

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• One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.

  Pat Cooper

  Italian, People, Singing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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