Samuel Butler Quotes

Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

Samuel Butler

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• Life does not owe me a shred.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Life
  • Me
  • Owe

• Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Live
  • May
  • Age

• The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • World
  • Business
  • Own

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Life
  • Follow

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Music
  • Today
  • Moving

• If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Religion

• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Always
  • More
  • Push

• I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Teach

• It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Up
  • Opinion
  • Creative

• Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • You
  • Things
  • Influence

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Real
  • Money
  • Inside

• I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • Time
  • Want

• I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • People
  • World
  • Hate

• In Korean, my lyrics are witty and have twists. But translated into English, it doesn't come over. I've tried writing in English, just for me, but it doesn't work. I've got to know everything about a culture, and I don't.

  

  Psy
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Culture

• I don't like posh hotels. I like small, eclectic hotels, and luxury for me would mean really good company with good food in a really funky, beautiful house in the middle of a field where someone came and serviced the place for us.

  

  Amanda Donohoe
  • Good
  • House
  • Beautiful

• [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Up
  • Money

• Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • School
  • High

• One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • People
  • Time

• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • Common Sense