Top 451 Butterfly Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.
Open your heart and mind like the wings of a butterfly. See then how high you CAN fly.
'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.
A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.
It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.
Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.
Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly
Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.
And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.
The air is like a butterfly
With frail blue wings.
The happy earth looks at the sky
And sings.
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How
else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?
Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.
We go through these metamorphous just like a caterpillar does before becoming a butterfly and the middle of that metamorphosis it always feels uncomfortable.
Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar
Thus every dog at last will have his day -
He who this morning smiled, at night may sorrow;
The grub today's a butterfly tomorrow.
If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only because it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.
No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.
The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.
I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.
People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.
This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly.
Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.
His lashes, fluttered like butterfly wings. "I could've made you happy, dove." "You did," I whispered
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.
The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.
I mean, everything that is upon this earth, even from a worm or a caterpillar that blossoms into a butterfly, you know, these things are just amazing.
If we're so smart and so much better than all the animals, and man rules the world, why can't we just change all the time from, like, a caterpillar to a butterfly?
Why is a caterpillar wrapped in silk while it changes into a butterfly? So the other caterpillars can't hear the screams. Change hurts
The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public.
True beauty of dress consists in its simplicity . . . What do these devotees of fashion gain? Only the satisfaction of being admired, like a butterfly.
I said that I’m a fairy… and I prefer to dance and fly with the butterfly but they made me talk and walk - and I hate walking and talking.
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.
Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.
Watch the indolent butterfly playing on the tall flower in the yard and think about the sun going down. It always does you know.
I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.
I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.
He is a male butterfly without the wings - the same kind of grace of a very young horse, so angular.
In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.
Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.
They say I'm famous for my chip shots. Sure, when I hit 'em right, they land just so, like a butterfly with sore feet.
A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.
Demanding respect is like chasing a butterfly. Chase it, and you'll never catch it. Sit still, and it may light on your shoulder.
A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
Metamorphosis has always been the greatest symbol of change for poets and artists. Imagine that you could be a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next.
If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.
I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did.
