Samuel Butler Quotes

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

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• I like to prove people wrong.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Like
  • Wrong

• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Done
  • Want
  • Evil

• In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who walk for hours looking for water, who fetch firewood, who provide food for their families.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Women
  • Food
  • Water

• Well I love preppy style; I like J. Crew for guys.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Style
  • Like

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
  • Taken

• My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Eggs

• I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Book
  • Like
  • Princess

• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Idea

• Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Like
  • Texas
  • Taxi

• I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Show

• I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Remember
  • Guy
  • Horror

• I've gotten used to the point where I'm so used to being sweaty! I like to wear less makeup and be tougher!

  

  Maggie Q
  • Like
  • Makeup
  • Where

• I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • You
  • Water
  • Like

• I like to be left alone when I'm not working.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Alone
  • Like
  • Working

• The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Up
  • Society
  • Focus

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Control
  • Like
  • Really

• I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Good
  • Water
  • Yoga

• I thought Twitter was a joke. I really thought it was a gag. I thought it was like National Lampoon or the Onion.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Like
  • Thought
  • Twitter

• Beauty depends on purpose. It is in the elements best suited to their purpose or aim that beauty shines forth most strongly.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Purpose
  • Beauty
  • Aim

• I feel a strong affinity to Ke$ha and Katy Perry and a lot of these women who are really pushing the girl power femme fatale thing. It's fun, and it's unapologetic, and they tell women they can do whatever they want, and that's true, and that's a message that I want to carry, to tell girls they can do whatever they want.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Women
  • Power
  • True

• I still have a problem with nuns. I follow them around like a kitten with a ball of yarn. After a while, all my characters become very close friends.

  

  Meg Tilly
  • Friends

• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  

  Samuel Butler
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