Samuel Butler Quotes

Life is one long process of getting tired.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902

Topics

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If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

Johannes Tauler

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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

John Berger

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The data are what matter in economics, and the more ruthlessness that an economist can summon to make sense of the data, the more useful his findings will be.

Stephen J. Dubner

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That's an actor's dream to get something meaty and juicy and challenging to work on.

Rutina Wesley

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You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

Rufus Wainwright

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One of the most fun and interesting things about YC is that we are kind of a startup ourselves. We are constantly changing and evolving what we do.

Michael Seibel

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Dance is merging with the more mainstream hip hop/R&B scene, and there will be new ideas and sounds.

Little Louie Vega

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In nuclear war all men are cremated equal.

Dexter Gordon

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I've got a lot of favorite golfers.

Deron Williams

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I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

Donna Tartt

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Censorship in all its forms must be challenged.

Deeyah Khan

CensorshipMustChallengedForms

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Bruce Lee

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