Samuel Butler Quotes

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ManWritingDoubtWillHimTell

I started to invest in very-early-stage companies where, even though I wasn't the founder, I could help shape the early strategy and culture.

Aneel Bhusri

CultureStrategyHelpEarlyShape

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

Jean Paul

PeoplePraiseEasierThanSimpler

A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.

Jean Renoir

LifeDirectorPiecesOnlyAgainHe

My Hindi is OK. I think I am better with Tamil. I remember the Tamil words.

Amy Jackson

WordsI AmThinkBetterRememberOK

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin

DreamsActionRealityDreamLiving

I'm very happy with the opportunities I've had.

Sigourney Weaver

HappyOpportunitiesVeryHad

I know my curiosity as a writer and as a person makes me really interested in moving to parts of the country that I haven't explored through writers' festivals or through the kind of campus visits that I do on a regular basis and engaging with people who may be readers of poetry and may not.

Tracy K. Smith

PoetryPeopleMeMovingCuriosity

I'll have you know that as a young man, I spent an entire year as a woman in a world tour of 'As You Like It.' I played Celia.

Tom Hollander

WomanManWorldYearYouYoung

I went to a fashion show, and this silver-haired guy was staring at me with these piercing water-blue eyes. It scared me because I absolutely saw and knew my entire future.

Tom Ford

FutureEyesMeFashionStaringGuy

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

Jonathan Ive

SolutionYouInevitablePossibleTry

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

Christopher Moore

FriendshipLoveFaithLoyaltyBlue

The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize the character you're playing. Whether it's a fictional character or a real character. Because then you operate from that sort of negative point of view, and you can't humanize him.

Corey Hawkins

CharacterNegativeViewYouKnow

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