Samuel Butler Quotes
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.Samuel Butler
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
Barbara Demick -
It's just a blessing from above. I can't stress that enough, because I don't feel like it's anything that I've done. For me to say, 'Well, it's because of this, this and that is why I've been able to play,' it's just a lie. I couldn't tell you why.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
Of course I get hurt.
Jackie Chan -
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
Laura Esquivel -
Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
Zachary Quinto -
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
Barbara Walters
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
T. J. Miller -
I've had quite a life, when you stop and think about it.
Nancy Reagan -
The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
Tanith Lee -
Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins -
I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
Laura Dern -
Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
Eddie Murphy -
Sometimes I get emotional when I'm doing 'Lonesome Valley' or 'Wildwood Rose.'
Carlene Carter -
It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
Ornette Coleman -
Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
Gary Herbert -
That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
Tao Okamoto
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
Wayne Kramer -
I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
Nancy Pelosi -
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
Gary Herbert -
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
A. N. Wilson -
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
Samuel Butler