Quotes on Like A Butterfly

Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him.

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

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

Once you let people know anything about what you think, that's it, you're dead. Then they'll be jumping about in your mind, taking things out, holding them up to the light and killing them, yes, killing them, because thoughts are supposed to stay and grow in quiet, dark places, like butterflies in cocoons.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.

Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.