Butterfly

Bowman backed off and implemented the double sessions a year later, when Phelps was more mature, and the work paid off. In a preliminary swim at the spring national championships outside Seattle in March 2000, Phelps lowered his 200 butterfly personal best by an astonishing five seconds, to 159 flat. The time instantly made him one of the fastest swimmers in the world, at age 14. It was the most boring environment you could imagine, ... There were maybe two people in the stands. There was no cheering. Then Michael swims 159. I remember walking to my car after that swim, stopping and saying out loud, 'He's going to make the Olympic team.' That day changed everything.

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The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth-point goes The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that toad.

- Rudyard Kipling Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky then I awoke. Now I wonder Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man

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I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.

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The goal is not just butterfly collecting or mammal collecting to simply describe mammals. All of that comparative work across mammals is about informing the human genome for medicine. Until we actually understand all the working parts within our genome, we won't really be able to practice the most informed medicine.

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One of the themes of Butterfly is incest. Before now, I don't think people could deal with the subject. Now that there have been exposes in major magazines and on television shows, and several films, the subject is at least more out in the open.

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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

- Rabindranath Tagore Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

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I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.

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I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

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The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up.

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The Butterfly Effect.

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Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.

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My drive went left of the fairway and I had a bad lie. I tried to play for the front left of the green but the ball came out like a butterfly with sore feet.

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Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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M Butterfly.

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I think if I had showed him a picture of a truck, he would have said it was a truck aa and not a butterfly.

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His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

- Ernest Hemingway Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Jess is a returning district and state qualifier in the butterfly and she knows what to expect in these meets.

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When I first came in the stadium I felt like I was home, ... I had these butterfly feelings. But then when I got my first tackle it took me back to 2003, the last time I played on this field on my senior night, and the butterflies went away.

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his heap of mud keep still...

- Joseph Conrad Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

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Ryan is certainly the best swimmer we've ever had at the University of Florida. He holds the school record in both butterfly events, both individual medleys, both of the backstrokes. He's got the freestyle. He's on every relay and could probably hold a few more of our records. He just hasn't had a chance to swim the events.

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We check the sex of the butterfly, the condition of the wings, and then we put a small sticker the size of a pinky fingernail on the lower underside of their bottom wing. The tag has a phone number on it and a tag identification number, and then we let it go.

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Probably our best swim was the medley team re-qualifying. Vanessa has jumped in there in the butterfly for us, and it has gone well.

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