Top Butor Quotes

#1. If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Marcus Aurelius

#2. Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

Ice Cube

#3. If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.

Tom Hodgkinson

#4. Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.

Bruno Tonioli

#5. I'm a hands-on dad. I love my kids more than anything. It's very important to me. I'd give myself a 10 out of 10 for being a dad.

Dominic Purcell

#6. There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

#7. And see the rivers how they run Through woods and meads, in shade and sun, Sometimes swift, sometimes slow, Wave succeeding wave, they go A various journey to the deep, Like human life to endless sleep!

John Dyer

#8. Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the British aristocracy is apt to look with a somewhat jaundiced eye on its younger sons.

P.G. Wodehouse

#9. I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

Tracy Kidder

#10. Fortunately for the human race, pain, however piercing, is not a lasting emotion. The recollection of happiness lingers, but the consciousness never retains for long the first thrust of tragic loss. The details of daily life crowd in upon the mind.

Wallis Simpson

#11. I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

Sam Wyly

#12. the work and achievements of hundreds of men of outstanding accomplishment, that there was the influence of a woman's love behind nearly every one of them.

Napoleon Hill