Samuel Butler Quotes

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Samuel Butler

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• It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Me
  • Actress
  • Stereotype

• I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • Heart
  • Think

• Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Man
  • Hands
  • Boxing

• A mom can't afford to be sick.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Mom
  • Sick
  • Afford

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• I don't really shop any more. I only do it when I have to. I think it is very overrated.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Think
  • More
  • Really

• The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?

  

  Karen Fairchild Little Big Town
  • Up
  • Band
  • Strength

• I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Done
  • Actor
  • Stage

• You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Know
  • Down
  • Gravity

• I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Blood
  • Pressure
  • Fair

• I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.

  

  Yuna
  • Writing
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Always
  • Place
  • Class

• I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Money
  • Over
  • Six

• Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Democracy
  • Bring
  • Central

• It's not healthy to be jealous.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Healthy
  • Jealous

• It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Impossible

• I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.

  

  Andrew Scott
  • Different

• When the bad bleeds, then is the tragedy good.

  

  Cyril Tourneur
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Tragedy

• I can only speak for me... but in my life, I find that, in sobriety, I feel much more, and I have much more depth. I also feel - not to segue, but as being a parent of five kids, I can bring much more to my acting, and so I'm all about anything that gives you more feeling and more depth.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Feeling

• The facts of life are very stubborn things.

  

  Cleveland Amory
  • Life

• You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Soul

• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Long
  • Tired