R. A. Butler Quotes

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

There is another world, but it is in this one.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

If only more of today's military personnel would realize that they are being used by the owning elite's as a publicly subsidized capitalist goon squad.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.

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

I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early.

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.

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. God is Change.

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I'm extremely lucky, I guess; it's a lucrative venue.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

We must take the profit out of war.

All of us, as bodies, are in the active position of figuring out how to live with and against the constructions - or norms - that help to form us.

We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.

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

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

As we interpret ourselves differently, we also live ourselves differently.

Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

War like any other racket, pays high dividends to the very few. The cost of operations is always transferred to the people who do not profit.

All that I have said and done, Now that I am old and ill, Turns into a question till I lie awake night after night And never get the answers right.

And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.