Samuel Butler Quotes

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GodHistoryPastHistoriansCannot

What if cities embraced a culture of sharing? I see a future of shared cities that bring us community and connection instead of isolation and separation.

Joe Gebbia

FutureCommunityCultureIsolation

I hope to work with kids any way possible.

Jenna Bush

WorkHopeWayPossibleKidsAny

I think I have had so much blessing - I've had my brother, who was brilliant - I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother - Bailey was just all of that. He loved me.

Maya Angelou

FamilyBlessingBrotherMeThink

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.

Jeffrey Eugenides

ExperienceMeWinnersUpPrizeBeen

People don't realize a lot of things about me. A lot of things, they don't know.

Miguel Cabrera

PeopleMeKnowRealizeThingsAbout

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

Mike Mills

SadGriefExperienceParentsFlowers

I've never been very flashy or high-profile.

Jon Oringer

NeverBeenVeryFlashyHigh-Profile

After a couple of years at Vertigo, I realized that if I was going to be a professional artist, I'd have to devote myself to it full time, so I ended up leaving my job there and went freelance.

Cliff Chiang

TimeMyselfJobArtistProfessional

When you're working in the industry, and you're working with people who are well known and are so regarded, you do just pick up on things. Talking to people and hearing their stories, you learn a lot.

Asa Butterfield

PeopleLearnTalkingYouHearingUp

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

JourneyAudienceObsessedGoes

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.

Shana Alexander

EyesPeopleLawHusbandPersonTwo

We demand that people don't deny the Holocaust, and we can't ignore the tragedy of another nation.

Reuven Rivlin

PeopleIgnoreTragedyHolocaustDeny

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