#butterflies

I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. ↗

Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them. ↗

— Charles Gounod

#catch #flight #had #hand #i

I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head. ↗

— Persis Khambatta

#artist #butterflies #friend #had #head

The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth. ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#coming-of-age #mariposas #age

...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice! ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#butterflies #hidden-beauty #voice #beauty

It gives me goose bumps and little butterflies in the stomach when I start thinking about the 'golden slam.' ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#bumps #butterflies #gives #golden #goose

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies. ↗

— Patricia Velasquez

#creature #essence #represents

First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that. ↗

— Karrie Webb

#butterflies #different #first #i #i think

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help! ↗