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butterfly
«She was the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly ever.»
Author: Mary Russell Mitford
(Essayist, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
affected, butterfly, hunting, prettiest, silliest
«The fluttering of a butterfly's wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet»
Author: Paul Erlich
| About:
Animals
| Keywords:
butterfly, changes, climate, effect, flutter, fluttered, fluttering, flutters, Other side, planet, side effect, side effects, The Butterflies, The other side, wings
«The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did not fly, or if they flew straight and briskly like bees, or if they stung, or above all if they did not enact the perturbing mystery of metamorphosis: the latter assumes in our eyes the value of a badly decoded message, a symbol, a sign.»
Author: Primo Levi
(Author, Chemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
assumes, attractiveness, bees, briskly, butterfly, contribute, decode, decodes, derives, enact, enacted, enacting, flew, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, motives, perturbed, perturbing, perturbs, stung, symmetry
«I embrace emerging experience.I participate in discovery.I am a butterfly.I am not a butterfly collector.I want the experience of the butterfly.»
Author: William Stafford
| Keywords:
butterfly, butterfly collector, collector, collectors, embrace, emerging, participate
«Kathleen Kelly: Once I read a story about a butterfly in the subway, and today, I saw one. It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are.»
«They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods»
«The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.»
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
(Essayist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
butterfly, counts, moments, months, The Butterflies
«There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.»
Author: Richard Buckminster Fuller
| Keywords:
butterfly, caterpillar, caterpillars, tells, The Butterflies
«Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.»
Author: Andre Gide
| Keywords:
arrested development, arrests, butterfly, caterpillar, caterpillars, maxim, pernicious
«The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity»
Author: George Carlin
(Actor, Author, Comedian)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
butterfly, caterpillar, caterpillars, publicity, The Butterflies