R.E. Butler Quotes

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that?

O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

So there might be a kind of collective effort that allows for those risks to be taken, pose a certain danger but not a suicidal one.

I love old movies. The '40s theatre pace is fantastic.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make

Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

The critical image... must not only fail to capture its referent, but show its failure.

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

Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

My manager and my agents, they go over my contracts.

There is hardly anything more confusing than a really strong-willed woman and when you are surrounded by two of them in the midst of trying to save the world, it really adds to some drama!

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Without sounding cliché, music is like air. It provides for me. I don't necessarily look for what I can get out of it. It's a compulsion. I've always gotten out of it everything.

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century.

English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.

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.

He who expects not to achieve will never do so.

Don't we all just really try to fake it well?

In handling resources, strive to avoid disaster rather than to attain an optimum.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

To do more, is not necessarily to do better.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given imagination.

There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.