Max Muller Quotes

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

Max Muller

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• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!'

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Focus
  • Tough
  • Butterfly

• I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Hope

• 'Butterfly Mosque' came out of the emails I wrote to family and friends back home after moving to Egypt.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Family
  • Home
  • Friends

• The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Voice
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• Trying to make a living from poetry is like putting chains on butterfly wings.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Trying
  • Poetry
  • Butterfly

• There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Night
  • Fashion
  • Fly

• Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Water
  • Air

• No matter how many times you've done it, the early stages of getting a show up on its feet is very hit and miss. There seem to be thousands of options on every page to discover.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Up
  • Done

• Beyonce is this massive star, but she's incredibly humble. But it's weird because even though I love her, she's my boss's wife.

  

  Rita Ora
  • She
  • Wife
  • Star

• I have been talking nonstop about the symbolism of an edible landscape at the White House. I think it says everything about stewardship of the land and about the nourishment of a nation.

  

  Alice Waters
  • House

• I think that being raised the way I was, where everything was so uncompromising, where, you know, we're prepared to fight to the death for the soil that you believed belonged to you - that kind of extreme engagement is very difficult to flush out of your system - or your belief system, anyway.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Death
  • Engagement

• I did great things in the theater. I did some nice roles, 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' or 'La Vie en Rose.' And I love my role in 'Frantic.'

  

  Emmanuelle Seigner
  • Great
  • Nice
  • Rose

• Making something and sending it out into the world and then people not only responding to it but adopting it for their own and making a separate thing for it, that's beautiful. It just shows you how much you can affect other people... the butterfly effect of everything you put out into the world.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • People
  • World
  • Beautiful

• There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets, and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.

  

  Katharine Graham
  • Believe
  • Democracy

• I should like to present myself to the young painters of the year 2000 with the wings of a butterfly.

  

  Pierre Bonnard
  • Present
  • Butterfly

• When I go onstage, every situation I have to play, I feel pain. When I sing 'Madama Butterfly' I feel completely everything she felt: It's horrible.

  

  Kristine Opolais
  • She
  • Pain
  • Butterfly

• In the city, we work until quitting time. On the farm, we work until the job is finished.

  

  John Bytheway
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

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

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Men
  • Passion
  • Literature

• Why is there space rather than no space? Why is space three-dimensional? Why is space big? We have a lot of room to move around in. How come it's not tiny? We have no consensus about these things. We're still exploring them.

  

  Leonard Susskind
  • Why
  • Space
  • Exploring

• We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light

• Growing up in New York, I was sort of shocked when I realized that my children are Californians. They are 14 years old, and I explain to them frequently that they will never realize the glory of a snow day. You wake up and the world says, 'Oops, it's too much fun to go to school, you've got to stay home and deal with the snow!'

  

  Adam Savage
  • Up
  • World
  • Children

• I was proud to be a Ranger for my entire career, and I wanted to be here when things got turned around. So I was disappointed and still am.

  

  Brian Leetch
  • Career
  • Ranger

• Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

  

  Max Muller
  • Butterfly