Samuel Butler Quotes

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

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• I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Done
  • Identity

• Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Best
  • Teacher
  • Ever

• An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Values
  • Act
  • Attack

• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Character
  • Experience
  • Try

• Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • American
  • Everyday

• I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Work
  • Live
  • Facts

• Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Poetry

• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Gossip

• I've never wanted to do anything but be a newspaperman ever since I was 13.

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Ever

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.

  

  Cao Yu
  • Life
  • Best
  • Short

• In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Life
  • Work
  • Creativity

• Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Children
  • Responsibility

• I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Pretty
  • Never
  • Body

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• 'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

  

  Salli Richardson
  • Life
  • True
  • Value

• I don't necessarily think fighters should fight killers every time, but at some point in time, fighters should be fighting the best in their division, period.

  

  Andre Ward
  • Time
  • Fighting
  • Period

• If you know the why, you can live any how.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Live
  • Why
  • Know

• From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.

  

  William Blum
  • People
  • Country
  • Fighting

• I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Good
  • Grateful

• If one thing that bothers me about acting, it's that there's no clear-cut number one. The closest you can get is winning an Academy Award, and I'm going to work on that if it takes me the next 50 years. To my peers, it will mean that I'm the best!

  

  Dana Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Winning

• One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Know
  • Fighting