Samuel Butler Quotes

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

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• My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

  

  Oliver North
  • Home
  • Wife
  • Understood

• When we started the show, 'Dallas' was known as the city where JFK was assassinated. By the end it was known as JR's home town.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Home
  • City
  • End

• Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Day

• I've gone very far, far away, but my character keeps me close to home.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Home
  • Character
  • Me

• Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Great
  • Home
  • Empathy

• The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Life
  • Home
  • Rock

• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.

  

  Verite
  • Life
  • Why
  • Home

• I was at our beautiful home in Martha's Vineyard, near Boston, sitting on the porch looking at the ocean when I got a phone called and was asked, 'Would I like to do 'CSI'?' A week later, I'm at a coroner's office in Las Vegas, participating in a quadruple autopsy.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Ocean

• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Home

• Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Love
  • Home
  • Fireside

• Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Home
  • You
  • Hat

• Dad went to Canada to learn how to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force. He took me on my first airplane ride, where I could have a hand on the stick.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Dad
  • Hand
  • Air

• A guy wants a classy girl who is smart and has goals - someone that he wouldn't be afraid to bring home to his parents.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Home
  • Guy
  • Parents

• I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Sustainability

• I've always refused to play terrorists.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Play
  • Always
  • Refused

• 'Strong Island' has been a labor of love and dedication on the part of so many people, that it's just an incredible recognition to be honored. And to be the first trans director - and, I believe, the first African-American trans director - to be nominated for an Academy Award is incredibly, incredibly special to me.

  

  Yance Ford
  • People
  • Believe
  • American

• I did a lot of trapeze stuff when I did 'Pippin' and continued to do it afterward. Flying is so fun, and I was used to the harness idea, but these harnesses are like intense, full bodysuit things.

  

  Ciara Renee
  • Fun
  • Flying

• I've always believed in self, I've always believed that as long as I believe, nothing else matters. I just put that type of motivation and that type of energy into my music, and I've always had confidence in my music as well.

  

  Ace Hood
  • Music
  • Energy
  • Believed

• All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

  

  Samuel Butler
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