Samuel Butler Quotes
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
Rachel Brosnahan
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I voted for Barack Obama.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
Oscar Isaac
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
Eddie Marsan
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
Florence King
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I just go out and play my game. Just making sure I keep doing those little things, like playing with toughness, that's just me.
Draymond Green
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I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now.
Albert Einstein
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
Patrick deWitt
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A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.
P. G. Wodehouse
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler