Rett Butler Quotes & Sayings

The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed. — John Dewey

Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it. — Peter F. Hamilton

Wonder is a beautiful bliss. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. — Jean Cocteau

Smile at strangers and you just might change a life. — Steve Maraboli

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. — Jean Houston

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too. — Alexandra Shipp

I sometimes have moments of such despair, such despair ... Because in those moments I start to think that I will never be capable of beginning to live a real life; because I have already begun to think that I have lost all sense of proportion, all sense of the real and the actual; because, what is more, I have cursed myself; because my nights of fantasy are followed by hideous moments of sobering! And all the time one hears the human crowd swirling and thundering around one in the whirlwind of life, one hears, one sees how people live - that they live in reality, that for them life is not something forbidden, that their lives are not scattered for the winds like dreams or visions but are forever in the process of renewal, forever young, and that no two moments in them are ever the same; while how dreary and monotonous to the point of being vulgar is timorous fantasy, the slave of shadow, of the idea ... — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense from Maximegalon to try to reason with the lead singer who had locked himself in the bathroom with a bottle of pills and was refusing to come out till it could be proved conclusively to him that he wasn't a fish. The bass player was busy machine-gunning his bedroom and the drummer was nowhere on board.
Frantic inquiries led to the discovery that he was standing on a beach on Santraginus V over a hundred light years away where, he claimed, he had been happy for over half an hour now and had found a small stone that would be his friend. — Douglas Adams

Why? What happened to her? Did you get her pregnant? Shove her down a flight of stairs? Help her evil twin abduct her and take her to Mexico for some face altering plastic surgery? — Stacey Kade

Diego looked at me and saw me. No one had seen me since Jesse. — Shaun David Hutchinson

I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it. — Shannon L. Alder

I think surprises are what's great about life: "WHOA! I didn't see that coming!" — Jason Mraz

I'm so addicted to 'Homeland' right now. — Hilary Rhoda

Faith doesn't rely on odds or statistical data. God only requires that we have faith; the rest is up to him. — Nancy Stephan