Samuel Butler Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'
-
If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
-
I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
-
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
-
We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
-
Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
-
We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
-
Wrestling is different to me. As I talk to other wrestlers, wrestling seems a little different to me than it does to a lot of them. To me, it's about an artistic performance and about honing my artistic performance in pursuit of these minute moments of perfection. These little encapsulations. And none of them are ever perfect.
-
Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
-
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
-
People really love editorial cartoons, and I think publishers understand that.
-
The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
-
The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
-
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
-
It is critical that writers who embrace the light of Christ's redemptive love characterize the darkness arrayed against us in a way that is consistent with its true nature.
-
Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
-
When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
-
Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
-
My kitchen has a wood-burning oven, a large worktable, and windows all around, including one above the sink. I think whoever is washing the dishes needs to have a lot of beauty around.
-
I think that makeup can be challenging, especially when you are younger.
-
I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
-
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
-
Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.
-
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
