Daiton Butler Quotes

As Evelyn slid to a stop in the center of the hallway, Butler calmly shook his head. Then he lifted his machine gun and fired. ~ Elizabeth Heiter

Man's life is thought,
And he, despite his terror, cannot cease
Ravening through century after century,
Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come
Into the desolation of reality ... ~ William Butler Yeats

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle. ~ Robert Olen Butler

Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce. ~ William Butler Yeats

His mistake was in seeing her as a young girl. She was already a missile, armed and targeted. ~ Octavia E. Butler

I wasn't trying to work out my own ancestry. I was trying to get people to feel slavery. I was trying to get across the kind of emotional and psychological stones that slavery threw at people. ~ Octavia E. Butler

Let's face it. you become a deeper person amidst adversity. You become a more perceptive, strong, resilient person when life is not handed to you on a silver platter held by a butler. ~ Cathy Lamb

I
though heart might find relief
Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief
What seems most welcome in the tomb
play a predestined part.
Homer is my example and his unchristened heart. ~ William Butler Yeats

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad. ~ Samuel Butler

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head. ~ William Butler Yeats

Jaysus, you must be the most nosey little shite I have ever come across in my bleeding life. ~ Eden Butler

Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn't vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach. ~ Octavia Butler

You controlled both animals and people by controlling their reproduction - controlling it absolutely. ~ Octavia E. Butler

When I was living in Boston, I worked in this store that played the college radio station. I had to listen to it all day, and I didn't care for most of it. ~ Win Butler

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it. ~ William Butler Yeats

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. ~ Margaret Mitchell

I love doing the stunts. It's as simple as that. ~ Gerard Butler

She's twenty-one and just by her hairstyle you can tell she's saving IT for the man she will marry. It's short at the sides and high on top, with a sideburn-length curl in front each ear. Look around you next time you're out strolling, there's hordes of them like her. They all wore braces when they were kids, played a lot of sports, were considered tom-boys, spent endless hours worrying about pimples, black-heads and acne, and wanted only one thing out of life-- get married and be a loving motherto both their children and their husband. In the meantime, they work at meaningful jobs like teaching and nursing until the Right Man comes along.
They're the reason Canadian men are amongst the most neurotic, childish and apathetic males on the Western continent. They need the challenge of a mature woman in order to bring out their maturity, and instead they're offered mamas. Yet it isn't the girls' fault. After all they're only being what men want them to be, what they think men want them to be. And vice-versa. Both sexes being what they think the other wants them to be and neither one really knowing because they've never asked their opposite what they would like, and this total absence of communication being the root cause of this great void between modern man and woman ~ Juan Antonio Butler

I went back-to-back from 'Paperboy' to 'Butler,' literally with no break. ~ Lee Daniels

She went to him. She adjusted, became a quieter more subdued person. She didn't kill, but she seemed to die a little. ~ Octavia E. Butler

To operate within the matrix of
power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination. ~ Judith Butler

Jarret insists on being a throwback to some earlier, "simpler" time. Now does not suit him. Religious tolerance does not suit him. The current state of the country does not suit him. He wants to take us all back to some magical time when everyone believed in the same God, worshipped him in the same way, and understood that their safety in the universe depended on completing the same religious rituals and stomping anyone who was different. There was never such a time in this country. But these days when more than half the people in the country can't read at all, history is just one more vast unknown to them. Jarret ~ Octavia E. Butler

A spot whereon the founders lived and died
Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees,
Or gardens rich in memory glorified
Marriages, alliances, and families,
And every bride's ambition satisfied. ~ William Butler Yeats

The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober. ~ William Butler Yeats

Someday Rufus would own the plantation. Someday, he would be the slaveholder, responsible in his own right for what happened to the people who lived in those half-hidden cabins. The boy was literally growing up as I watched - growing up because I watched and because I helped to keep him safe. I was the worst possible guardian for him - a black to watch over him in a society that considered blacks subhuman, a woman to watch over him in a society that considered women perennial children. I would have all I could do to look after myself. But I would help him as best I could. And I would try to keep friendship with him, maybe plant a few ideas in his mind that would help both me and the people who would be his slaves in the years to come. ~ Octavia E. Butler

I realized that I knew less about loneliness than I had thought - and much less than I would know when he went away. ~ Octavia E. Butler

The first thing I do when I come to work, I say hello to my dogs and give them one biscuit each. The butler takes them out to the park and drops them off at the office, so they are there waiting for me. They are very popular in the studio. They play all the time. They run around, up and down, left and right. ~ Stefano Gabbana

The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes. ~ Robert Olen Butler

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for? ~ Octavia E. Butler

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender ... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results. ~ Judith Butler

My grandpa was a cowboy. He roped cattle out in Texas and Arizona. Growing up, I'd see him maybe once a year and he'd always get me on a horse at some point. But each time I'd have to learn again. ~ Austin Butler

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything. ~ Octavia Butler

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want. ~ Frank Butler

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant. ~ William Butler Yeats

I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put the biscuits up high so we wouldn't be helping ourselves. So, one day I asked to stand up on a chair to get a biscuit, and it fell, and the corner of the chair went right into the side of my eye, and it made a big hole in there. ~ Gerard Butler

I took everything to a big matter ... ~ Malcolm Butler

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire,
With your harmonious choir
Encircle her I love and sing her into peace,
That my old care may cease ... ~ William Butler Yeats

Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. ~ Samuel Butler