Have Butterflies Quotes

#1. It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation

Rob Gilbert

#2. That's how risk works. You don't know it's the right choice until you're freefalling, and even then you still have butterflies - but at least you were the one to take that step over the ledge.

Rachel Van Dyken

#3. It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.

Francisco Lopez

#4. You want to have butterflies in your stomach, because if you don't, if you walk out onstage complacent, that's not a good thing.

Joan Jett

#5. It's okay to have butterflies in your stomach, as long as you make them fly in formation,

Dana Perino

#6. If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.

Cooper Edens

#7. It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.

Chris Zylka

#8. I have butterflies in my stomach.

Zane

#9. I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. 'See how richly they are clad,' he said. 'Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.

Lloyd C. Douglas

#10. I don't tell him I couldn't have gorged if I'd tried, my stomach stuffed full of butterflies and grown-up worries.

Emily Murdoch

#11. I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

Josh Groban

#12. "Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.

Trina Paulus

#13. A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#14. And if not for the caterpillars and butterflies, who will I talk to? You'll be far away. And as for larger creatures, I'm not afraid. I have my thorns ... to protect me.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. There seemed a deep sense of life and joy about all; and although no airs blew from out the Heavens, yet everything had motion through the gentle sweepings to and fro of innumberable butterflies, that might have been mistaken for tullips with wings.

Edgar Allan Poe

#16. Sometimes I fall back pretty hard on the butterflies and the flowers. What a privilege to have been around for this.

Wendell Berry

#17. Oh, God. I'm in big trouble. Because I'm staring. I can't keep my eyes from ogling his chiseled triceps and biceps and every other eps ' he has. The butterflies in my stomach have just multiplied tenfold as my wandering gaze meets his.

Simone Elkeles

#18. Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but you'd have to be a complete beast to swat butterflies.

Ilona Andrews

#19. From the season I did the butterfly faux tattoos on the models on the runway, every collection we do has to have a butterfly t-shirt or trim or print. People come to me for butterflies!

Anna Sui

#20. It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.

Philip Pullman

#21. Yeah, they're just matches," I continued, my voice growing thick with tears. "And memories and smells and sounds and butterflies in my stomach every time I heard the car door slam outside, telling me that he was home. A thousand dreams of all the places I'd have adventures someday.

Penelope Douglas

#22. I get it. Artists are introverts. If you were out there socializing all the time, you wouldn't have time to contemplate and create. I have artists who are social butterflies. I'm not making a lot of money off them." She paused.

Dana Marton

#23. What makes some butterflies have such beautiful colors on their wings, and others not?" "The plain ones were born of parents who didn't know how to paint.

Anais Nin

#24. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers. There is enough room in the sky for all flyers.

Trina Paulus

#25. Butterflies are symbols of hope. They land beside us, like sunbeams, and belong to us for a moment, but then they fly away. And while we wish they might have stayed longer to share their beauty, we feel blessed for having s-seen them.

RaeAnne Thayne

#26. One lone butterfly flapped his wings somewhere in the vicinity of my spleen. He was probably a scout. No doubt six million other butterflies were hot on his heels, if butterflies even have heels.

John Inman

#27. She did not know many beautiful animals that had sweet tempers, except perhaps butterflies. Then again, there wasn't enough to a butterfly to properly be called a temper. That options did an angry butterfly have, anyway? Stamping eylashed-sized feet? Flapping its wings in a sarcastic manner?

T. Kingfisher

#28. When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

Sue Monk Kidd

#29. Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

Taryne Mowatt

#30. You have made no secret of the fact that you hate me."
His eyes soften again. "Hate you?" he asks. "Not as much as you might think. And then there is the ... what was it ... butterflies? That can't be a bad thing, can it?

Amy A. Bartol

#31. I have discovered that I cannot enhance anybody's performance without getting them not only to live with the butterflies that come with high-pressure jobs but to embrace that kind of physical response, enjoy it, get into it. That's the first real ticket to being a performer who thinks exceptionally.

John Eliot

#32. Just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic ... See, they have a beautiful life.

Lisa Genova

#33. It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

Gunter Grass

#34. Who in hell bought a mug with blue butterflies on it!" I shouted, slamming it on the counter beside the stove. "We are serious people doing serious things! I don't have time for butterflies!

Kim Harrison

#35. Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless.

John Muir

#36. He seems to have become a part of my life and I'm disappointed if I don't see him. If I get to the end of the day without seeing someone who reminds me of him, I feel as if a dull shadow has fallen over me.

Dorothy Koomson

#37. Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager. You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.

Steve Bull

#38. World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire

Nelly Sachs

#39. I have always thought of the moths and butterflies as a bonus to the flowers, as though Nature were admiring her own work.

Roger Deakin

#40. You [Chopin] have in your fingers an orchestra of butterflies.

Adam Mickiewicz

#41. Butterflies add another dimension to the garden, for they are like dream flowers - childhood dreams - which have broken loose from their stalks and escaped into the sunshine.

Miriam Rothschild

#42. She said it was because one day I was going to have to go through a metamorphosis like a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly and that scared me, so butterflies scared me.

Gayle Forman

#43. I get a lot of butterflies at auditions because I get so scared. It's scary because you've never met the people before. You have to meet them, and you have to hurry up and get to know them in five seconds. And then, you have to spill your emotions out to these strangers. It's funny.

Elle Fanning

#44. Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal relations between rich & poor, between North and South, between whiteness and its others.

Harsha Walia

#45. The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth.

Eileen Granfors

#46. Hush-a-bye, don't you cry
Go to sleepy, little baby
When you wake, you shall have
All the pretty little horses
Way down yonder in the meadow
Lies a poor little lambie
Bees and butterflies, picking out its eyes ...

Lauren DeStefano

#47. I've always felt kind of safe on stage, protected. I've talked to other performers about this and they feel the same things, particularly in the live arena. I never get nervous going on stage to do a play. Doing film or television I'll have more butterflies.

Cillian Murphy

#48. That's the way it goes. You can't deny it, men have a hard time doing all that's demanded of them: butterflies in their youth, maggots at the end. I

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#49. Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#50. When works of art are presented like rare butterflies on the walls, they're decontextualized. We admire their beauty, and I have nothing against that, per se. But there is more to art than that.

Hans Haacke

#51. Butterflies tickle my insides. "You either have an Olympian-sized sense of self-importance, or you're overcompensating for a lack of confidence.

Amanda Bouchet

#52. The best speakers know enough to be scared ... the only difference between the pros and the novices is that the pros have trained the butterflies to fly in formation.

Edward R. Murrow

#53. I do have a heart. A big, messy, bleeding-like-a-volcano heart. If you pulled it out of my chest, it would be covered in escaped butterflies and black holes and weeds that look like flowers.

Amy Zhang

#54. I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.

Amitabh Bachchan