Blake Butler Quotes

I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

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• I'm not a good guitar player.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Good
  • Player
  • Guitar

• Friends are not made, but recognized.

  

  Carl Rakosi
  • Friends
  • Made
  • Recognized

• I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Country
  • Communist
  • Lawyers

• When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Trying
  • High

• I can't see the film industry coming to a grinding halt any time soon. I think we may be more open to negotiations and things like that, but I think the art world tends to thrive in times of recession.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• The best way to really make the VPN issue a completely nonissue is through global licensing that we are continuing to pursue with our partners.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Way
  • Best
  • Best Way

• I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Men
  • Energy
  • Normal

• By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Control

• A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy: a bird Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone: That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third, Were axioms to him, who'd never heard Of any world where promises were kept Or one could weep because another wept.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Up
  • World
  • Alone

• 'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Words
  • Boy

• That means temporary borrowings. People have to understand that because there's going to be the usual political shit storm, sorry, political storm.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • People
  • Political
  • Sorry

• A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

  

  Alan Ayckbourn
  • She
  • Comedy
  • Eyes

• Our island is this earth; and the most striking object we behold is the sun. As soon as we pass beyond our immediate surroundings, one or both of these must meet our eye. Thus the philosophy of most savage races is mainly directed to imaginary divisions of the earth or to the divinity of the sun.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Savage

• One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Life
  • May
  • Relationship

• In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach
  • Enemy

• Because I'm married and have kids, I feel like I sometimes get pegged as a choirboy or something, but I wouldn't exactly describe myself that way.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Kids

• I really like Nick Jonas. I think he is super-cute, handsome and talented.

  

  Tyler Oakley
  • Cute

• I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.

  

  Mary Wesley
  • Long
  • School
  • Mother

• If you don't accept excuses, then people will stop giving them and will start looking for solutions.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • People
  • Solutions
  • Excuses

• I've liked lots of people 'til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.

  

  Bess Truman
  • People

• The better team doesn't always win. I think we were more dominant.

  

  Natalie Darwitz
  • Team
  • Win
  • Dominant

• If you've ever known the love of God, you know it's nothing but reckless and it's nothing but raging. Sometimes it hurts to be loved, and if it doesn't hurt it's probably not love, may be infatuation. I think a lot of American people are infatuated with God, but we don't really love Him, and they don't really let Him love them. Being loved by God is one of the most painful things in the world, it's also the only thing that can bring us salvation and it's like everything else that is really wonderful, there's a little bit of pain in it, little bit of hurt.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • World
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• I like smartasses, because I can be smartass back and rashy.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Smartass
  • Rashy