Samuel Butler Quotes

Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

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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I think that what people want is for government to function... not through temper tantrums and saying we are not going to participate, we are not going to play ball.

John Cornyn

GovernmentPeopleSayingThinkPlay

When you ask a bunch of people to see a film, and then invite them to comment on it and tell them it's a work-in-progress, they feel bound to offer an opinion.

Andrew Dominik

PeopleOpinionFeelYouAskSee

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.

Meir Kahane

ForgetSufferUsWhoAmnesiaCauses

All good ideas arrive by chance.

Max Ernst

GoodIdeasChanceGood IdeasArrive

So when you go to a set and you just fully trust everybody, you know how hard everybody's working, you know that the people doing it are good and have such a strong vision - that's exactly my experience on 'New Girl,' and what my experience on 'Veronica Mars' was like. Everybody was just so great.

Max Greenfield

GoodGirlVisionGreatTrustPeople

I'm very thankful to directors and filmmakers who consider me in their films, and I hope I'm able to do justice to their films.

Amitabh Bachchan

HopeThankfulJusticeMeAbleWho

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

Steve Brown

BusinessMusicBeginningYouKnow

A success, to me, is the ability to keep working. That's success. It has nothing to do with money; it's the ability to keep getting things made, period.

Steven Soderbergh

SuccessMoneyMeNothingAbility

I love 'Flashdance.' I thought it was so cool!

Rutina Wesley

LoveCoolThoughtI Love

My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them.

Roustam Tariko

PeopleAmericanGoEntertainment

People's trust in their public institutions depends on their government getting results.

Martin O'Malley

TrustGovernmentPeopleResults

What is good work? You just know it when you see it. You just can't explain it.

Louise Wilson

WorkGoodGood WorkYouKnowSee

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