#utter

I feel more Irish than English. I feel freer than British, more visceral, with a love of language. Shot through with fire in some way. That's why I resist being appropriated as the current repository of Shakespeare on the planet. That would mean I'm part of the English cultural elite, and I am utterly ill-fitted to be. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#appropriated #being #british #cultural #current

I will always have a stutter. ↗

— Nicholas Brendon

#i #stutter #will

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ↗

— Gerald Brenan

#butterflies #closer #endure #few #few people

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? ↗

— Zhuangzi

#around #awoke #being #butterfly #dreamed

Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night. ↗

— James Buchan

#arabia #belief #completely #day #every

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#am #butterfly #dreaming #i #i am

Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#absolutely not #acting #because #domain #found

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything. ↗

— Julia Child

#butter #deathly #doctors #eggs #everything

When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched. ↗

— Patch Adams

#caterpillars #sad #sadness #sorrow #beauty

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#consonants #man #only #sounds #utter