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“My grandfather is the king, my Dad's the prince, I guess that makes me the butler.”

Kings Dad My Dad Grandfather My Grandfather Butlers

Author:Adam Petty

“Scarlett O'Hara is going to be a thankless and difficult role. The part I'd like to play is Rhett Butler.”

Play Difficult Roles Butlers Thankless Scarlett O Hara Rhett Butler

Author:Norma Shearer

“In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.”

Men World Ends Modern Development Machines Species Prophet Dominant Destined Modern World Homo Sapiens Butlers

Author:Robert Aickman

“Butler is branded a felon, an outlaw, an enemy of Mankind, and so ordered that in the event of his capture, the officer in command of the capturing force do cause him to be immediately executed by hanging.”

War Force Causes Enemy Mankind Events Command Civil War Capture Officers Outlaw Butlers Branded Felons

Author:Jefferson Davis

“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.”

Kind Facts Effects Produce Consequence Originals Notion Gender Imitation Butlers

Author:Judith Butler

“I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.”

Ifs Want Left Grace Charm Butlers Scarlett O Hara Rhett Butler

Author:Margaret Mitchell

“I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.”

Ifs Littles Seems Faces Nervous Hospitality Gracious Kevin Butlers Punching Sony Sharpening

Author:Gabe Newell

“Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)”

Please Butlers Ladybugs

Author:Winston Churchill

“Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.”

Courses Brilliant Disturbing Brilliant Ideas Butlers

Author:Sarah Zettel

“Only interested in himself and profiting from the war as an unscrupulous entrepreneur, and not in being a patriot: "I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me."”

Knows Believe Mean War Belief I Believe Causes Entrepreneur I Believe In Patriot Butlers Rhett Butler

Author:Clark Gable

“I was so raw I didn't know about the Lambeau Leap-a Packer player celebrates catching a touchdown by leaping into the stands. It was started by Leroy Butler years before and has been copied by players all over the league. Don't be fooled, though. The only legitimate Lambeau Leap is celebrated by a Packer at Lambeau Field.”

Knows Years Has Beens Player Fields Celebrate League Leap Catching Fooled Butlers Touchdowns Packers

Author:Donald Driver

“Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: "I love you!" Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me, Captain Butler, as long as you live.”

Ifs Want Love Long Faces Heard Love You Someday Your Face Southern I Want You Captains Flirting Butlers Belle Plantations Live Love Ashley Scarlett O Hara Southern Belle Ashley Wilkes

Author:Clark Gable

“Gladys.. work has kept you fit And Bill.. you never moan Well life's not for carrying cases With a butler of your own”

Wells Cases Fit Bills Anniversary Butlers

Author:John Walter Bratton

“During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he didn't believe it was buried there] and reburied it in a metal box.”

Believe War President Arms Battle Boxes Civil War Buried Metals Marine Mock Marine Corps Butlers Harding Warren Harding

Author:Tony Horwitz

“It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility”

Giving Real Values Literature Mankind Mines Gold Currency Stamps Utility Doubtful Butlers Indebted Real Value

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.”

Knows Wells Said Reason Hero Heroism Butlers

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.”

Inspirational Writing Sound Concerned Corny Butlers

Book:If you can't say something nice

Source: If you can't say something nice

“In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.”

Knows Play Night Opinion Ought Butlers Retainers

Author:Joachim du Bellay

“I enjoy having breakfast in bed. I like waking up to the smell of bacon, sue me. And since I don't have a butler, I have to do it myself. So, most nights before I go to bed, I will lay six strips of bacon out on my George Foreman grill. Then I go to sleep. When I wake up, I plug in the grill. I go back to sleep again. Then I wake up to the smell of crackling bacon. It is delicious, it's good for me, it's the perfect way to start the day.”

Way Night Enjoy Sleep Perfect Bed Six Wake Up Lays Smell Injury Breakfast Waking Delicious Going To Sleep Plugs Butlers Start The Day Breakfast In Bed Bed And Breakfasts

Author:Steve Carell

“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.”

Has Beens Poverty Violence Feminism Safety Gender Categories Literacy Decrease Butlers

Book:What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters

Source: What Does a Jew Want?: On Binationalism and Other Specters

“I was never one of those girls who dreamt of Prince Charming. To piss off my mom, I would say, 'I'm never having kids and I'm going to be a fabulously rich old maid with cute butlers and dogs.'”

Kids Girl Rich Dog Strength Mom Simplicity My Mom Cute Charming Self Reliance Reliance Maids Butlers Having Kids Old Maids

Author:Jessica Biel

“Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.”

Firsts Two Water Please Warm Tea Bags Pot Boiling Butlers Boiling Water

Author:Lynn Fontanne

“In many ways the culmination of [Judith Butler's] thinking to date, 'Parting Ways' will confirm Butler's place at the forefront of debate about one of the most anguished political crises of our times.”

Thinking Way Political Crisis Debate Our Time Parting Butlers Culmination

Author:Jacqueline Rose

“I've been a huge Psychedelic Furs fan for a long time. I love Butler's paintings, too. I like all their songs. I'll even crank 'Pretty in Pink,' I don't care.”

Long Care Song Fans Painting Huge Long Time Don't Care I Don't Care Psychedelic Fur Butlers Crank

Author:Norman Reedus

“Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.”

World Enough Running Kids Our World Robots Butlers Soon Enough

Author:Eric Stoltz

“It's a movie, OK? I went to see GONE WITH THE WIND, but did I really believe there was a guy named Rhett Butler who said, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"? No. Movies need heroes and villains, and real life doesn't usually have heroes and villains. Real life has a lot of shades of gray, and moves have black and white even when they're in color.”

“The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.”

Rooms Dog Meals Household Carpet Dining Persian Butlers Poodles Dining Rooms

Author:Winston Churchill

“I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.”

Thinking Humans Robots Butlers

Author:Tom Felton

“Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.”

Littles House Comedy Feet Butlers Midget

Book:I Never Met a Kid I Liked

Source: I Never Met a Kid I Liked

“If I could be anyone, I'd choose the lead singer of Arcade Fire, Win Butler.”

Ifs Winning Fire Singers If I Could Butlers Arcades Arcade Fire

Author:Rob Kardashian