Samuel Butler Quotes

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChildrenMoneySchoolPeopleClothes

There's this tradition of women's magazines - which have been my bread and butter as a freelancer - where the paradigm is that the writing is about relationships, body image, lessons, and it's always redemptive.

Meghan Daum

WomenWritingTraditionBodyImage

I didn't act in college, per se, because I didn't want an acting degree. I don't know what you do with that degree. When I was 16, I saw 'Usual Suspects,' and I wanted to be a director as well. So I thought I should go to school for directing and producing, something I knew nothing about.

Mehcad Brooks

SchoolCollegeThoughtYouActing

In a bubble, eventually people start saying, 'Wait a minute... these prices are way too high! What is anyone buying anymore? What could they possibly be thinking?' And then there's a correction and a bursting.

Robert J. Shiller

PeopleWaitStartSayingThinking

We're all a result of our early years and our nature and nurture.

Ruth Bradley

NatureResultEarlyYearsNurture

Indeed, evolutionists don't agree on how divergently our own biosphere could have developed if such contingencies as ice ages and meteorite impacts had happened differently.

Martin Rees

IceOwnAgreeHappenedDifferently

God puts us in position to do the things we need to, both on and off the track, to honor Him.

Michelle Carter

GodHonorNeedHimPositionThings

I want a nice picture book with 12 pictures - I do my best with that format.

Dick Bruna

BestBookPicturePicturesNice

There is a porous membrane between a documentary that doesn't use interviews and what you would call a neorealist hybrid film.

Debra Granik

YouCallFilmDocumentaryInterviews

I try to be realistic, listen to my body and know when to slow down.

Christie Rampone

SlowBodyDownKnowTryListen

Capitalism and people who control the market have a large hand in everything. It doesn't have anything to do with figuring out what the crowd wants to hear. It has to do with the media deciding what they think people want to hear.

Boots Riley

PeopleControlCapitalismThinkWant

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Pope Paul VI

LifeWorkArtValueMeMeaning

I'm a fun song maker. I love to make people smile. I also love to see them big, burly dudes crying because their wives' song is 'Die a Happy Man.'

Thomas Rhett

SmileLoveManFunHappyPeople

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