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A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.


Patrick Rothfuss

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INDIA ARIE I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
KATE BOSWORTH Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MOHAMMED ALI Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.
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CHUANG TZU Death to me is nothing but a caterpillar turning into a butterfly.
VIKRANT PARSAI Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
MAX MULLER Life is like a butterfly.... Full of margarine and moths.
JEAN-JACQUES TALJAARD You get like a crazy person. I worked on the butterfly garden at Lenoir Nature Center and I'm not ab...
BEVERLY SMITH Ode To A Butterfly,
NICKEL CREEK Once upon a time, I dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purp...
ZHUANGZI She is like a butterfly,
Beautiful to look at
But hard to catch.
NIKKI ROWE I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER a bit of a social butterfly.
JOHN BURNHAM M Butterfly.
JOHN LITHGOW Butteflies do not just born..
KARIM FDHILA I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who ...
ZHUANGZI I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who ...
CHUANG TZU I embrace emerging experience.I participate in discovery.I am a butterfly.I am not a butterfly colle...
WILLIAM STAFFORD What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS Take time to be a butterfly.
GILLIAN DUCE Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE The law of life. Move gracefully like a butterfly, Strike like a cobra."
PETER WATSON ...a butterfly is like the soul of a person, it dries out in captivity.
MARLENE VAN NIEKERK Butterfly you.
COLLEEN HOOVER There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER A light rain touches my cheek like an angel's butterfly kisses.
AMANDA MOSHER I'm about as intimidating as a butterfly.
DAN HOWELL The Butterfly Effect.
ASHTON KUTCHER I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly d...
ZHUANGZI I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly d...
CHUANG TZU Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt that i was a butterfly. flitting around and enjoying myself....
ZHUANGZI The air is like a butterfly/ With frail blue wings/ The happy earth looks at the sky/ And sings.
JOYCE KILMER Happiness is not only in chasing the butterfly, being abeyant is just as rewarding and the butterfly...
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Forgetting... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself... For a caterpillar to bec...
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
LYNN MARGULIS Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like ...
CORNELIA FUNKE What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?
ROY ROGERS When problems hit, float like a butterfly, don't get stung by the bee.
JIM GENOVESE Internets are the most volatile stocks. They're like trying to catch a butterfly.
DOUG MYERS A fallen blossom
returning to the bough, I thought --
But no, a butterfly.
ARAKIDA MORITAKE and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.
RUSKIN BOND Be awesome! Let your mind dance like a butterfly and your heart sing like a flower.
DEBASISH MRIDHA You can only chase a butterfly for so long.
JANE YOLEN Caterpillar dun' become butterfly-caterpillar die so butterfly can be. A new thing. We all must let ...
RYAN WINFIELD Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.
MUHAMMAD ALI Just when the caterpillar thought “I am incapable of moving,” it became a butterfly.
ANNETTE THOMAS What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
RICHARD BACH Beautiful," Andy breathed in awe as an iridescent butterfly tumbled past, just inches from her face....
JOSEPHINE ANGELINI Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history. Y...
BUTTERFLY MCQUEEN All I want is food right now. I've got a dog. I've got a husband. We need the necessities.
BUTTERFLY SAMSON I think it's pretty good for them. More power to them.
BUTTERFLY SAMSON Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
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UNKNOWN His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At on...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete...
RAINBOW ROWELL Butterfly is painting of the God on wings.
DR HITESH C SHETH A mere court butterfly, That flutters in the pageant of a monarch.
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The caterpillar becomes a pupa to meditate and then becomes a butterfly
ANKALA V SUBBARAO A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
ANDRE GIDE A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
ANDRé GIDE We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achie...
MAYA ANGELOU You are all wave particles when I close my eyes. I am no more entranced by your entanglement than a ...
SOLANGE NICOLE To love unconditionally, is to live as free as a Monarch Butterfly in Spring.
LAILA DONCASTER What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.
ECKHART TOLLE I see it like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon. It'll take a while, but it'll spread its wings.
MICHAEL ROBINET After all, color in itself has no color — it's simply a construction of the mind: a sensation, lik...
JASPER FFORDE The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.
GEORGE CARLIN The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity
GEORGE CARLIN Green was the silence, wet was the light,
the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
PABLO NERUDA To spread your wings like a butterfly,make your shell of cocoon strong with confidence and patience....
PRABHA Elusive butterfly; happiness with beautiful, fragile wings, soaring on a delicate high.
JILL ANZINGER I hate when I'm a sexual butterfly and the man I'm with is a damn moth
NERISSA IRVING Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.
STACEY D'ERASMO Satire or sense, alas! Can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
ALEXANDER POPE I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, / Dying when fair things are fading away.
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO When the spirit of nature touches us, our hearts turn into a butterfly!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Just when the caterpillar thought her world was over, she became a butterfly.
LORI BRAUTIGAM April's air stirs in
Willow-leaves...a butterfly
Floats and balances
BASHō MATSUO Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
ZHUANGZI Who are you, gaijin? What do you know about honor?'
'I'm called Chocho,' Will said...
'Cho...
JOHN FLANAGAN I think that positivity— real positivity— is like the butterflies. The whole essence of the butt...
C. JOYBELL C. Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful...
DREW BARRYMORE I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY And I wonder if the caterpillar at the threshold of death ever knew that she would get metamorphosed...
CHIRAG TULSIANI When he laughed in his throat, the butterfly laughed at me too. It's obscene fluttering corrupted me...
KAZUYA MINEKURA Story is a butterfly whose wings transport us to another world where we receive gifts that change wh...
HARLEY KING How does one become butterfly?' Pooh asked pensively.
'You must want to fly so much that you ar...
A.A. MILNE The only time you should ever look back, is to see how far you've come.
BANGTAN BOYS, BUTTERFLY They were all solid in the freestyle, but they were all different. Hilary chose the butterfly, which...
JIM CALLAHAN It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there ...
GABBY DOUGLAS People just bring us anything butterfly. It's pretty cool.
KRYSTIE SCHIELE What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
RICHARD BACH How to Write a Poem

Catch the air
around the butterfly.
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I gave i...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinite...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS A poet is a musician who can't sing.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d lik...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS For all that she lacked your fire.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile....
PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?"
"It's not very heroic," I said...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I guess I'm doomed to die loveless.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?'
'Lucky?...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Are you hurt?"
"Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I
summoned demons. I ate the entire little chee...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS