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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The movie business is a big gamble.
Jackie Chan
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There's something about the openness of the American people. Yes, we have our faults, but deep down, there's a goodness. America doesn't want to take over the world; in many ways, we don't want to be bothered by the rest of the world.
Jerry Springer
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In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.
Mark Burnett
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I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.
Andrea Bocelli
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My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me.
Antoine Predock
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler