Billy Butler Quotes

I wasn't going to be drafted to steal bases at 18.

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• I'm not a runner, and I always dreamed about just throwing on my sneakers and really knocking everyone's socks off with my joy of traversing the world by foot.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Joy
  • Socks

• Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Like
  • Enjoy
  • Really

• I like Public Enemy a great deal.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Great
  • Like
  • Enemy

• I'm street smart. You can't con me. But that's just from living in New York. Now if a guy came from Mississippi somewhere, Ohio somewhere, to New York City for the first time, he don't have the street smarts. You can take him.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Time
  • Guy
  • City

• My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Father
  • Sometimes
  • Jobs

• But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Never
  • Take
  • Punishment

• I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Live
  • Constant
  • Hyperbole

• Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Truth
  • Me

• Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Very
  • Well
  • Villain

• I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • People
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• If you think something is impossible, then it certainly is... for you.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Think
  • You
  • Impossible

• People who are short, they're often portrayed as the victim.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Short
  • Victim

• The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Church

• Long live the walls we crashed through,All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you.I was screaming, 'Long live all the magic we made,'And bring on all the pretenders.One day we will be remembered.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Long
  • Live
  • Magic

• I certainly do get at the end of my rope at times. We all do.

  

  Joan Allen

• In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while the Sunnis had nearly a dozen. To worship, the Shiites had to cross an inconveniently located bridge over the sewage canal to Shula.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Small
  • Bridge

• My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg - eight ninths below the water line, one ninth above.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Water

• I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.

  

  Ben Shahn

• I am kinder to my body. I don't try to prove anything to myself or others. I keep thinking about the need to go slower, gentler and maintain a sense of humor about it all.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Body
  • Prove
  • Sense Of Humor

• An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Home

• Generally speaking, the misfit's story is easier to tell.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson

• I wasn't going to be drafted to steal bases at 18.

  

  Billy Butler