"I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch."

-- Jostein Gaarder

#Butterfly Quotes

“Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys.”
“Television's very dependent on images. That's not what news is.”
“Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 2-3, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859), 1922.
“Pardew has come out and criticized me. He is the worst at haranguing referees. He shoves them and makes a joke of it. How he can criticize me is unbelievable. He forgets the help I gave him, by the way. The press have had a field day. The only person they have not spoken to is Barack Obama because he is busy. It is unfortunate but I am the manager of the most famous club in the world. Not Newcastle, a wee club in the North-East. I was demonstrative. I am always demonstrative. Everyone knows that. I am an emotional guy but I was not abusive.”
“I can still remember the day, as an assistant U.S. attorney, when I stood up in court for the first time and I proudly said, "My name is Samuel Alito and I represent the United States in this court." It was a great honor for me to have the United States as my client during all of those years.”

Source : Opening Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered 9 January 2006
“In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.”

Source : "Antoni Tàpies, Spanish Abstract Painter, Dies at 88" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. February 6, 2012.
“Writing is my passion. It is a way to experience the ecstatic. The root understanding of the word ecstasyâ€”â€œto stand outsideâ€â€”comes to me in those moments when I am immersed so deeply in the act of thinking and writing that everything else, even flesh, falls away.”
“An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.”

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