#butterflies

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#humor #inspirational #funny

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#butterflies #day #even #feel #feeling

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

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#beard #beautiful #butterflies #failed #full

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#known #literature #man #passions #sweetest

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#beautiful #brave #brief #butterflies #clever

Some people collect butterflies - I love beetles. ↗

— Eva Green

#collect #i #i love #love #people

I still get butterflies when I'm doing a runway show. The music starts, you're wearing these gorgeous clothes and your nervous about your high heels, if your shoes are going to break, if your going to slip or do something wrong. ↗

— Karlie Kloss

#break #butterflies #clothes #doing #get

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

#because #butterflies #complacent #good #good thing

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game. ↗

— John Starks

#focused #game #i #i remember #locker

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. ↗

— Brendan Gill

#butterflies #cloud #cram #facts #full