Samuel Butler Quotes

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CultureManEnoughLookHandFirst

Our country, like every modern state, needs profound democratic reforms. It needs political and ideological pluralism, a mixed economy and protection of human rights and the opening up of society.

Andrei Sakharov

SocietyPoliticalCountryEconomyUp

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

John Niven

MoneyCreditCardsMortgagePoor

I take life as it happens. And I give myself a lot of freedom.

Jean Paul Gaultier

LifeFreedomMyselfTakeGiveLot

Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they're different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they're all the same, really.

Spike Jonze

MusicTimeFeelYouMoviesExplore

Some people ask why we bother to make new music, but we still love doing it.

Robin Zander

LoveMusicPeopleDoingNewWhy

You cannot allow whether someone likes you or not to alter your course of action. Sometimes I think, 'Sure, that hurts my feelings.' But it's not so important that I will adjust what I'm doing because someone is not going to like me.

Roger Ailes

MeActionThinkSomeoneDoingYou

Some interviewees you make friends with and some you don't.

Ruby Wax

FriendsYouMakeSome

People crave community, more efficient living, and easier access to the places they want to go.

Logan Green

CommunityPeopleGoWantLiving

There is nothing, not a thing, like the process of creating a character for the stage - you can't get it anywhere else. Unless you're totally method and spend six months living your life like your character for a film, the theater is the place to get that intense acting experience.

Jonny Lee Miller

LifeCharacterExperienceYouActing

Airline food is cooked in an oven and then kept warm. Space station food is often cooked in an oven and then thermo-stabilised, irradiated or dehydrated and then stored for a year or two before you even get to it.

Chris Hadfield

FoodSpaceWarmYearYouTwo

I worked at Sir-Tech, and then when I got old enough to go to college, I went to college but continued to work at Sir-Tech to put myself through college.

Brenda Brathwaite

WorkMyselfCollegeEnoughGoOld

At school, I could talk about what other kids were talking about. Maybe I wouldn't seem so strange if I connected with them on the level they were used to.

Bozoma Saint John

SchoolTalkingStrangeTalkSeem

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