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Samuel Butler Quotes

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Respect Lie Person Kind Compliment

New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

Michael Eric Dyson

Life Home Door Color Black Bag

I prefer the path of peace over war.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Path Peace War Over Prefer

I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips.

Love Live Jealous Promotion Volcano

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

Life School Me Rest Trying Lucky

I've never been asked to appear on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,' so I guess I mustn't be on the professional skids just yet.

Me Professional Celebrity Never Out

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

Advice Worth Entertainment Little Us

I like girls who don't mind that I hang out with my friends.

Michael Rosenbaum

Mind Friends Out Hang Who Like

Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort.

Day Walking Write Call Keep Last

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word 'queer' is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer.

Love Me Gay Finish Names Decide

As an actor, I am only excited about doing good work - be it in mainstream Hindi cinema, Hollywood, a French film, or a Marathi movie.

Deepika Padukone

Work Good I Am Good Work Doing

I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that... but I know that's just American society.

Society Think American Know Never

Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.

Arnold H. Glasow

Heart Great Cold Story Nothing Heat

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