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
  • Butterfly

• Myrnin," she said. "He didn't show up at the rendezvous." "And? Dude's crazy, in case you didn't notice recently. He probally went of the chase butterflys or something.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Crazy

• Traditional graffiti writers have a bunch of rules they like to stick to, and good luck to them, but I didn't become a graffiti artist so I could have somebody else tell me what to do. If you're the type who gets sentimental about people scribbling over your stuff, I suggest graffiti is probably not the right hobby for you.

  

  Banksy
  • People
  • Good
  • Artist

• Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Free
  • Suffering

• When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Feels
  • Looks
  • Careers

• 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