Butterfly Man Quotes

#1. We gon' float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. AH! Rumble, young man rumble! AH!

Drew Bundini Brown

#2. My entire demeanor is displaying confusion, guilt, shame, pain, pleasure, and a yearning need for him. Lying beneath this huge man, I feel so very helpless and pinned like a butterfly on a plaque. Lucas's

Erotic Storm

#3. Theatre was an art form that I didn't really respect, and because I wanted to shake it up and do different things on stage, I was able to combine all the things I'd learnt through writing on my own.

Martin McDonagh

#4. This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.

Joseph Conrad

#5. 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.

Juliette Adam

#6. Yeah, but will it hurt?"' I asked.
"This is science, Zach," Randy said, reassuringly, as he tilted my head back and lowered the lens to my eye. "Of course it will hurt.

John Zakour

#7. If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

Red Skelton

#8. Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist.

Joseph Stiglitz

#9. I am sure now that life is not what it is purported to be and that nature, in the canny words of the Scotch theologue, 'is not as natural as it looks.

Loren Eiseley

#10. If you're dating a man who you think might be "Mr. Right," if he a) got older, b) got a new job, or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a nasty surprise. The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on cocoons and butterflies.

Rita Rudner

#11. You don't need proof. You just need an inclination

Mary Roach

#12. A trail twists through the stone cliffs toward Arques. At its end lies a broken man, his soul lifting away from his body, fluttering on a butterfly's wing, as fragile as a dream.

Julie Christine Johnson

#13. Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

Oscar Wilde

#14. Death takes what man would keep," said the butterfly, "and leaves what man would lose. Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks. I warm my hands before the fire of life and get four-way relief.

Peter S. Beagle

#15. I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

Zhuangzi

#16. Next door I could hear the old man's soul flap its heavy vermillion butterfly wings as the hustler shot a load down his throat.

Tom Cardamone

#17. 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

#18. My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting.

Vladimir Nabokov

#19. I dreamed I was a butterfly. I didn't know if I was a man dreaming I was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming I was a man." Lao-Tsu

John Isaac Jones

#20. Am I an old man who changed into a butterfly, or a butterfly who thinks he was once an old man?

Dennis Vickers

#21. Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.

John Galsworthy

#22. His laugh burst around her, like clouds into rain, breaking the storm. "My sweet girl. My practical, crazy girl. Love you.

Amber Lin

#23. Anyone who remains silent in the face of murder is an accomplice to murder. Anyone who does not condemn approves.

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

#24. You are the child of this universe; you have the right to success and peace.

Debasish Mridha

#25. Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go ... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

Peter Zumthor

#26. There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Plato

#27. A monk awoke from a dream that he was a butterfly, then wondered whether he was a butterfly dreaming he was a man.

Barry Eisler

#28. I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in five! I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee! I'm pretty!' When white people heard me talking like this, some said, 'That black man talks too much. He's bragging.'

Muhammad Ali

#29. Six months ago, I was intrigued, bewitched even, by this butterfly man. Now I was in love with him, impossibly so. Impossible because there was no going back from this. I was a changed man. My heart belonged wholly to him, and I knew, without a doubt, it always would.

N.R. Walker

#30. In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above ... so I never have to go upstairs.

Steven Wright

#31. The people of your world are forgetting their foundations. Discernment erodes and muddies all waters, no matter how pure.

Wayne Thomas Batson