John Butler Quotes

#1. I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.

Hope Solo

#2. Art changes people people change the world.

John Butler

#3. I'd like to have a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.

James Hetfield

#4. Lately, I've been listening to some jazz albums. I love the new Pat Metheny album. John Coltrane. I still like good metal, though!

Geezer Butler

#5. Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. I don't have a TV or watch movies. I don't like to be broadcast to, I want to participate.

Pete Cashmore

#7. I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.

Octavia E. Butler

#8. This means that "meeting the current toward elimination of names is the counter current of late development, which . . . gave to simplified matter the verisimilitude of proper names.

Richard Bauckham

#9. I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.

Kevin Moffett

#10. Thoughts fly and words go on foot. Therein lies all the drama of a writer.

Julien Green

#11. Gladys.. work has kept you fit
And Bill.. you never moan
Well life's not for carrying cases
With a butler of your own

John Walter Bratton

#12. The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.

Sylvia Plath

#13. I had no idea there'd be so many Sherpas aboard!" exclaimed Miss Simpkins.
"I'm not a Sherpa," Nadira said. "I'm a gypsy."
"Oh, my goodness!" said the chaperone.

Kenneth Oppel

#14. If you just look around ... you'll see you got magic.

John Butler

#15. As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

Gelett Burgess

#16. John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

William Butler Yeats

#17. My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

John Oliver

#18. This is one step along the road of moving away from a dollar peg and moving to a floating basket. This implies China will be accumulating dollars at a slower rate.

John Butler

#19. I didn't put him in his place. I was acknowledging his blind spot. We all have them. It just takes the right push to be able to really see them.

Lauren Lola

#20. Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

G.K. Chesterton

#21. I grew up in Greenwich Village. Dad was friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Yancy Butler

#22. And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
That dying chose the living world for text
And never could have rested in the tomb
But that, long travelling, he had come
Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
In a most desolate stony place ...

William Butler Yeats

#23. Our happiness consists in sharing the happiness of God, the perfection of His unlimited freedom, the perfection of His love.

Thomas Merton

#24. Jack looked at the paper. Devonsgate had listed all twelve footmen: John, Mark, Luke,
Thomas ... Bloody hell, his butler had hired the entire New Testament.

Karen Hawkins