“People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly.”
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American actress, director and producer 1975Related quotes
“The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.”
As quoted by James Gleick in Lasers slow atom for scrutiny, The New York Times, July 13, 1986: Explaining how atoms are cooled.
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
As quoted in New York World Telegram & Sun (21 August 1960); also in Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion (2004) by Joseph Abboud, p. 79
“I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. There's nobody as beautiful or as powerful as me!”
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
A Mathematician's Apology (1941)
“Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness:
But with poverty everything becomes frightful.”
L'or même à la laideur donne un teint de beauté :
Mais tout devient affreux avec la pauvreté.
Satire 8, l. 209
Satires (1716)