Kami Garcia Quotes

Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

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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

• The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Advantage

• I haven't let the gold medal out of my sight; it sleeps next to me in bed.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Me
  • Gold
  • Sight

• 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

• I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Three
  • Inspiring
  • Sight

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Max Muller
  • Butterfly

• I had eventually come to understand that friendship was a delicate, gradual process that mustn't be rushed or seized upon but allowed and encouraged to take its course over time. I pictured it as a butterfly, simultaneously beautiful and fragile, that once afloat belonged to the air and any attempt to grab at it would only destroy it.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Air

• I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read. My principle in researching a novel is 'Read like a butterfly, write like a bee', and if this story contains any honey, it is entirely because of the quality of the nectar I found in the work of better writers.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Work
  • Book
  • Quality

• My education was paid for by the RAF Benevolent Fund, so a charity school, run like an orphanage, with uniforms and beatings. It was tough, but it got me to Cambridge - like being a chrysalis suddenly becoming a butterfly.

  

  Eric Idle
  • School
  • Education
  • Charity

• I get butterflies in my stomach before I perform. I love them! They let me know I'm ready to perform, that I'm ready to rock out on stage.

  

  Manika
  • Rock
  • Stage
  • Perform

• There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Star
  • Lazy
  • Butterfly

• The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

  

  Adrienne Monnier
  • Suffering
  • Sound
  • Sight

• Poster art was always my way of being involved in the conversation. So it wasn't just a one-way conversation with the police yelling at us or freaking us out. Street posters allowed you to have the last word.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Art
  • Police
  • Conversation

• Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.'

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Time
  • She
  • Career

• In Randori we teach the pupil to act on the fundamental principles of Judo, no matter how physically inferior his opponent may seem to him, and even if by sheer strength he can easily overcome him; because if he acts contrary to principle his opponent will never be convinced of defeat, no matter what brute strength he may have used.

  

  Kano Jigoro
  • May
  • Fundamentals
  • Opponents

• Kind of like love before first sight.” and “Butterflies in your stomach. That was such a crappy metaphor. More like killer bees.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Butterfly
  • Sight
  • Like Love