Samuel Butler Quotes

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

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• My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • You
  • Hell
  • Half

• Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • You
  • Know
  • Fashion

• It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Growth
  • Learn
  • Impossible

• A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said, you still look like a Campbell's Soup kid.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • She
  • Friend
  • English

• A great painting is a great painting.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Great
  • Painting

• You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Power
  • Focus

• I'm kind of a private person.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Kind
  • Person
  • Private Person

• Asking what I'd do without Loopt is almost like asking what I would do if I didn't have a smartphone because the feature set has become the norm for me.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Like
  • Feature
  • Norm

• I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Work
  • Week

• I'm extremely determined and ambitious.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Determined
  • Ambitious

• Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Time
  • Pressure
  • Hitting

• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • New
  • Research

• I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • People
  • Work
  • Victories

• I love nothing better than immersing myself in different street cultures; exploring all those neighbourhoods in Tokyo was quite amazing, or visiting Morocco to see an Inditex factory.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Cultures

• I can spend 10 to 15 minutes with someone, and they can tell me what they're going through. I may never have gone through that, but I get it on a really deep level.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • May
  • Me
  • Deep

• You set something in modern-day Texas, which is so identifiable as the Old West, and everyone's wearing guns, so it looks like it's going to be, by default, partially considered a western.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • You
  • Like
  • Texas

• We will work on ways to digitally enhance Everest, matching it with Dolomites and Everest, but I'll do everything physically first. If there's no other way, then I'll go to CGI.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • First
  • Will

• Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.

  

  Joseph Glanvill
  • Will
  • Weakness
  • Yield

• I work out every morning for an hour while in front of the news channel or business channels, then I'll ride for four, five hours a day. So I'm on the move all the time, and I think that's the key. A body in motion tends to stay in motion. That's the law of physics.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Time
  • Work
  • Business

• If you constantly pound your muscles, they'll never have time to repair.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • You
  • Repair

• Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

  

  Samuel Butler
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