Trina Paulus Quotes

#1. Like all the men of Babylon, I have been proconsul; like all, I have been a slave. I have known omnipotence, ignominy, imprisonment.

Jorge Luis Borges

#2. Visits to 'the country' were very important to me growing up, especially working on the farm, experiencing all the wonders of cats and chickens and pigs and calves and outhouses!

Trina Paulus

#3. What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have.

Ferran Adria

#4. My goal is to be exactly how I am offstage - although I realize I'm supposed to punctuate it with jokes.

Andy Kindler

#5. How does one become a butterfly? They have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.

Trina Paulus

#6. If she remember right, people who had a God didn't seem to hold to drinking' an' beating' their women. With a little luck maybe she wouldn't have to put up with that anyway.

Janette Oke

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

Trina Paulus

#8. A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Horace

#9. Since we're neither at the bottom nor at the top, we must be in the middle.

Trina Paulus

#10. When you're hitting a fairway wood, you've got a lot of real estate to cover to get to your target. Your first instinct is probably to give it a little more power because you're worried about coming up short.

Ernie Els

#11. I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

Trina Paulus

#12. It takes lot of butterflies to make a world full of flowers

Trina Paulus

#13. "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

#14. I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.

Gore Vidal

#15. We have a nice home and we love each other and that's enough.

Trina Paulus

#16. We can fly!
"We can become butterflies!
"There's nothing at the top
and it doesn't matter!"
As he heard his own
message he realized how
he had misread the instinct
to get high.
To get to the "top" he
must fly, not climb.

Trina Paulus

#17. Life is a fantasy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Neither Goyl nor men lived long enough to understand that yesterday was born of tomorrow, just as tomorrow was born of yesterday.

Cornelia Funke

#19. I scribbled four words down in my notebook: 'The world is flat.

Nandan Nilekani

#20. The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

Simone Weil

#21. She defines and eliminates problems. She's practical in an evil way.

Gillian Flynn

#22. Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all!
It only looked good from the bottom.

Trina Paulus