Samuel Butler Quotes
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler
Quotes to Explore
-
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
-
Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
Earl Blumenauer
-
My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
Patrice Motsepe
-
Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
E. Joseph Cossman
-
As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Wallace Stevens
-
The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
Harold Urey
-
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner
-
Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.
Ian Anderson
-
Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
Patricia McBride
-
I like to do really realistic paintings, which requires so much focus; like, if I have to go to the bathroom or change a song, I can't; I'm so in it.
Tali Lennox
-
There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.
Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven
-
In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
Samuel Butler
