Quotes by 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. Gary Zukav butterfly pain winter I like - it's not that I want to be someone different from me, but I suppose it partly is that. I love creating a character in a fantastical situation, like Dr. Frankenstein, like Leo Bloom, a little caterpillar who blossoms into a butterfly. I love that. Gene Wilder creating butterfly character Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis. Frederick Lenz butterfly meditation self A rural Venus, Selah rises from thegold foliage of the Sixhiboux River, sweepspetals of water from her skin. At once,clouds begin to sob for such beauty.Clothing drops like leaves."No one makes poetry,my Mme.Butterfly, my Carmen, in Whylah,"I whisper. She smiles: "We'll shape it withour souls."Desire illuminates the dark manuscriptof our skin with beetles and butterflies.After the lightning and rain has ceased,after the lightning and rain of lovemakinghas ceased, Selah will dive again into thesunflower-open river. George Elliott Clarke butterfly rain love 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 butterfly stars science Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation. George Eliot butterfly expectations memories The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down. George H. W. Bush butterfly time doors Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. George Sand butterfly flower feelings It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all. George Vaillant butterfly liars littles Only one girl has ever really wrapped my stomach into pretzels. She didn’t give me butterflies. She gave me pterodactyls George Watsky butterfly kissing girl It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation. Georges St-Pierre overcoming-fear butterfly keys We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. Gerald Brenan butterfly relaxation people Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular eyes, frosty gold, with an expression of intense, predatory madness in them. The crooked arms, with their fringes of sharp teeth, would be raised in mock supplication to the insect world, so humble, so fervent, trembling slightly when a butterfly flew too close. Gerald Durrell butterfly eye humble She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them. Geraldine Brooks butterfly color wings 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. Giacomo Puccini opera butterfly paper I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. Gillian Flynn butterfly land beautiful Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men. Giorgio de Chirico butterfly men art Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world. Glen Duncan butterfly mind beautiful I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It is awful to think of the essential human energy moving so tiny a thing; it is like imagining that human nature could live in the wing of a butterfly or the leaf of a tree. When we look upon lives so human and yet so small... We feel the same kind of obligation to these creatures that a deity might feel... Gilbert K. Chesterton butterfly children moving Feeling in love (or lust) and fear feel a lot alike. They both give you that anxious butterfly feeling in your stomach, a sense of excitement, and a general unease physically and mentally. It's easy to confuse love with fear. Greg Behrendt butterfly feelings giving «56789101112131415»