Samuel Butler Quotes

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

SomeoneDownBooksShelfLikeSouls

For me, the bottom line is what's on the page.

Jimmy Smits

MePageLineBottomBottom Line

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

Jesse Eisenberg

GuiltyWayPleasuresJustWired

I think you also understand that one of the key things that's got to be done in Iraq is to build a mentality of understanding that the military needs to be subordinate to civilian control and respectful of its own people.

John Abizaid

PeopleControlThinkKeyYouDone

I rarely tweet unless I'm talking about 'The Bachelor.' I have a love/hate relationship with Instagram, though - it's like a rigid parent. It's much more restrictive with what can be posted, but you can write a full paragraph, post a video - it changes the game a little bit.

Jenny Mollen

RelationshipGameParentTalkingYou

I wanna do a song with Adele! Nobody gets Adele as a feature, so maybe I can. I hope she knows who I am!

Anderson Paak

HopeI AmSongI CanNobodyShe

I simply would like to live comfortably day by day, fish, swim, enjoy my declining years.

John McAfee

LiveDayFishEnjoyYearsSwim

I've written about how mortality is a wonderful indicator of societal progress.

Angus Deaton

ProgressWonderfulMortalityHow

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

WarPeopleProblemSolutionPoverty

I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.

Doreen Cronin

TimeYouMoreAlwaysThingsKids

Entrepreneurs should never work with big corporations.

David Tang

WorkNeverBigCorporationsShould

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.

Willie Mays

BallCatchThrowHit

No brawler in boxing is more crowd-pleasing than Arturo Gatti.

Thomas Hauser

BoxingMoreThan

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