Quotes About Butler

At his shoulder, Arno Blunt continued staring at Butler. The Fowl bodyguard blinked freely: in the event of confrontation, dry eyeballs would only lessen his advantage. Staring matches were for amateurs.

Butler cleaned his gun as he spoke. He often did this in times of stress. It was a comfort thing.

Friese boeren eten alle dagen grauwe capucijners. - Butler

Doubts assuaged, Butler returned to his copy of Guns and Ammo, leaving his employer to unravel the secrets of the universe.

I am unarmed. But Butler here, my…ah…butler, has a Sig Sauer in his shoulder holster, two shrike-throwing knives in his boots, a derringer two-shot up his sleeve, garrotte wire in his watch, and three stun grenades concealed in various pockets. Anything else, Butler?" "The cosh, sir." "Oh, yes. A good old ball-bearing cosh stuffed down his shirt.

Butler prepared them a meal. Nothing fancy. Vegetarian spring rolls, followed by mushroom risotto with crème caramel to finish.

Well, am I forgiven?' Butler sighed. On the chaise lounge, Juliet snored like a drunken sailor. He smiled suddenly. 'Yes, Artemis. All is forgiven. Just one thing…' 'Yes?' 'Never again. Fairies are too… human.

who no doubt honored a keen memory as a sign—bogus though it was in and of itself—of intelligence:

And, after all, the Athanasian Creed is light and comprehensible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.

Spode hurried away for counsel to Badgery House. Lord Badgery surprisingly rose to the occasion. Ask Boreham to come and see me, he told the footman, who answered his ring. Boreham was one of those immemorial butlers who linger on, generation after generation, in the houses of the great. He was over eighty now, bent, dried up, shrivelled with age.

Butler [Judith Butler] elaborates Foucault's argument about the operations of power and resistance in order to demonstrate the ways in which marginalised identities are complicit with those identificatory regimes they seek to counter

There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour, if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.

I'll tell you a family secret," she whispered enthusiastically. "It's about the butler's nose. Do you want to hear about the butler's nose?" "That's why I came over to-night.

I think this last film I finished, 'The Butler,' is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire.

Keith Butler is a very good football coach.

Minnesota is legit. There's so much space to run, like back home in Texas.

P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?

I wouldnt want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldnt for the life of me do the job in real life.

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

My! How the grapes are sour today! -Rhett Butler

We should have paid heed to cynics like Butler who knew, instead of statesmen who felt—and talked.

Butler's interception comes off as a great play, which it really was, at the biggest time of the year.

I'm terribly sorry, but I really don't see how I can help you.' It was the sort of line that if uttered in a play by J. B. Priestley would lead to the host getting up to heave on the bell-pull prior to the butler showing the detective his way out and his place in society.