Top 1200 Like A Butterfly Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

I never really got obsessed about one thing for long. I was a bit of a butterfly and a magpie.

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The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

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

A butterfly symbolized acceptance of each new phase in life. To keep faith as everything around you changed.

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

A power of Butterfly must be - The Aptitude to fly Meadows of Majesty concedes And easy Sweeps of Sky -

...the problem of space remained, she thought, taking up her brush again. It glared at her. The whole mass of the picture was poised upon that weight. Beautiful and bright it should be on the surface, feathery and evanescent, one colour melting into another like the colours on a butterfly's wing; but beneath the fabric must be clamped together with bolts of iron.

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.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

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.

I saw this huge billboard that said: 'Abortion Hurts' and then it had a drawing of a butterfly. Who is that for? Is there a lady who's going to see that and be like, 'Oh, I was going to get an abortion but now that I realize it hurts I guess I'll just give birth to a child! 'Cause I know that's painless and raising it should be a snap!'

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.

She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

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

Nando's is my pre-match meal. I have the butterfly chicken, mash and coleslaw.

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

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just.

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower!

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.

Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.

Having done 'M. Butterfly,' I'm conscious of the choices women make with their clothes and makeup on screen.

I've tried to incorporate new ways of playing the game. That's why you hear people call me a 'hybrid goalie' and say I adjust to the situation, never doing the same thing over and over like a butterfly goalie. I try to see what works and hopefully with my talent I'm able to play it and make it happen.

Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.

I love the garishness of the '90s - the giant platform shoes, the sparkly butterfly tops, the chokers.

Poetry is the establishment of a metaphorical link between white butterfly-wings and the scraps of torn-up love-letters.

Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego.

'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.

The term 'breakout' always makes me think of an inmate or some butterfly emerging out of a cocoon.

This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.

'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

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.

April's air stirs in Willow-leaves...a butterfly Floats and balances

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.

I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, Dying when fair things are fading away.

A red brick Presbyterian church... captured by kudzu vines as surely as a butterfly in a net.

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods

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.

Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly

Poems On Time The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth. Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

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.

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.

When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don’t be afraid to speak butterfly. When it’s time to awaken, nothing else will suit you.

Am I a human dreaming I am a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I am a human?

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.