Samuel Butler Quotes

Our minds want clothes as much as our bodies.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ClothesWantMindsOurMuchBodies

I wanted to get out of this country and experience different ways of seeing the world. So I went to Europe, but I went as an artist. I was increasing my skill set and exploring storytelling through painting.

Robert Redford

ExperiencePaintingWorldArtist

I became the messenger who had to be killed.

Anita Hill

MessengerWhoHadBecame

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.

John Sladek

GreatPeopleInventorsLaughed

When I was fourteen, I was one of those kids who wore all black because it matched everything. Seriously.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

BlackSeriouslyEverythingWhoKids

This is fundamentally true of the media business, the rigmarole you go through while trying to make 25 movies while not seeing your kids.

Stacey Snider

BusinessMediaTryingYouSeeingGo

For some years, I've been very interested in the relationship between science and art.

Simon McBurney

RelationshipScienceArtYearsBeen

I only really woke up in India. It was my first experience of plenty, strangely enough, because everything in England was rationed. I loved sweets, but you couldn't get them; then there was this marvelous mitthai - I went crazy.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

ExperienceCrazyLovedEnoughYou

It saddens me when public officials and bureaucrats are criticized for ulterior motives, none of which I have ever found in a government bureaucrat, or when someone personalizes disagreements.

Michael K. Powell

GovernmentMeSomeoneMotivesFound

Young people in particular need real options to find a decent job and to lift their lives. I'm not sure the new Islamist governments will be the best to promote prosperity and growth.

Jose Maria Aznar

GrowthBestJobPeopleFindYoung

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.

Dick Mountjoy

LoveSupportCountryMilitaryRank

I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.

Douglas Booth

GoodAgeEnoughLuckyFirstFilm

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

Anne Lamott

FriendBrotherMeLovingRockBig

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