Caron Butler quote: "He gave me an opportunity when everybody turned their back on me. He gave me a chance to come to school. He accepted me into his family. It was a great experience for me at UConn and I am grateful to him for that. I wouldn't miss this for anything."

That has been our focus all year and now we're starting to feel comfortable playing defense. We have...
CARON BUTLER

If that's where they need me to play to win basketball games, then so be it. I'm still a starter in ...
CARON BUTLER

This is an opportunity right here, ... You pray for situations like this. To be put in a situation w...
CARON BUTLER

It felt real good. I got my legs under me, I followed through, I really wanted that shot. Chucky did...
CARON BUTLER

We've been playing great basketball. I think we're a loose ball or a stop away. The whistle can blow...
CARON BUTLER

My knee is fine. I'm just struggling to make shots. I've just got to keep working hard and stay posi...
CARON BUTLER

It's a great place to play -- and a great place to stay also. I fit in here. The offense fits me.
CARON BUTLER

He's followed my career through high school, college and through the NBA. You want somebody who know...
CARON BUTLER

When things go bad, they go all the way bad. That's good. We got an opportunity to feel that early o...
CARON BUTLER

Our main thing was to go .500 or better (on the road trip). Now that we've got three wins, why stop ...
CARON BUTLER

I think the fans are probably a lot louder in Storrs. I'd like to see the Hartford crowd create that...
CARON BUTLER

They were able to stop the bleeding for about 8 seconds so I could shoot the free throws. Then I cam...
CARON BUTLER

Defense can help you get on some magnificent runs and put teams away. That's what we're looking forw...
CARON BUTLER

When you go through adversity, either you are going to bail out or you come together. This team came...
CARON BUTLER

It was a crazy experience because she is a woman who everyone in the world looks up to, ... I mean, ...
CARON BUTLER

I like how this looks on me, ... I think I can get used to this.
CARON BUTLER

There might be a kid out there who has been through some bad things and maybe seeing me, someone who...
CARON BUTLER

What an event like this in any community accomplishes is bringing people together for goodness,'' sa...
CARON BUTLER

I'm just happy to be someplace where I'm wanted, where I can dig in and carve out a place for myself...
CARON BUTLER

We're the bench mob, ... We're going to come in the game and pick up where the starters leave off.
CARON BUTLER

Mr. Grunfeld and Jordan have accepted us with open arms, ... I've had phone calls, and I've felt lik...
CARON BUTLER

I think that was real big. I was bleeding and they wiped me up real quick and stopped the bleeding f...
CARON BUTLER

We've got to have it. Anyway, anyhow. We're going to win this basketball game.
CARON BUTLER

When we arrived in Cleveland (Monday) we were in the back of the bus and we said we know Gilbert is ...
CARON BUTLER

He is the most effective, not when he's scoring, but when he gets other people involved. He demands ...
CARON BUTLER

I just think that chemistry is always big, and once chemistry starts coming together, it's a beautif...
CARON BUTLER

He's been the sparkplug, hitting big shots when we need them. Like I told him, I hope that he makes ...
CARON BUTLER

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would yo...
LESLIE CARON

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough...
LESLIE CARON

The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
LESLIE CARON

What's going to drive stock gains going forward is the earnings, and the current crop of earnings ma...
KEVIN CARON

Once he got his teeth sunk into something, he just didn't let it go.
ROGER CARON

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
LESLIE CARON

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experienc...
LESLIE CARON

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.
LESLIE CARON

I chose 'The Antique Ring' because it is a story about telling a story. Choosing the Poe story was m...
THOMAS CARON

It could help, because I can work even more on my spins. If you're just a fastball pitcher, it's goi...
DANI CARON

We have 350 kilometers on the bike and only 150 on our car.
MONIQUE CARON

You've got a decent summer rally under way with good breadth in the marketplace and, mostly, that's ...
KEVIN CARON

A P/E is meaningless by itself. A P/E has to look at the price you're paying for earnings but you ha...
KEVIN CARON

We want to get the children back in school as quickly as possible, whether they are staying with rel...
CARON BLANTON

If a district was awarded $100,000, the funds would not be automatically transferred. The district w...
CARON BLANTON

When I did small films like Lily and Buenos Vista, everyone thought my career would be ruined.
LESLIE CARON

The American is wholeheartedly for love and romance at any cost.
LESLIE CARON

With a lot of college coaches, they just look at your size. They don't care how you play. It bothere...
DANI CARON

Moving it back has really helped because it gives me more time. Because the strong pitchers just thr...
DANI CARON

I've never been a power hitter before, but I've been working out to increase my strength. I'm not th...
DANI CARON

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.
LESLIE CARON

The decline in starts shows that higher interest rates are impacting the housing market. That is a s...
JAMES CARON

He's telling you the Fed's probably got more room to continue to hike, but inflation is not going to...
JAMES CARON

As the Nikkei moves up in price, it signifies growth in the Japanese economy. That will signal highe...
JAMES CARON

As the Nikkei moves up in price, it signifies growth in the Japanese economy, ... That will signal h...
JAMES CARON

A curve inversion will last until the Fed stops tightening. As long is the Fed keeps tightening and ...
JAMES CARON

The Fed sounded optimistic about growth, but its view that the risks of inflation and inflation expe...
JAMES CARON

Even though the equity market does rebound a little bit, it is never met with a lot of faith.
JAMES CARON

There was a misunderstanding in terms of how the information was presented, and once the issues beca...
JAMES CARON

People don't want to trade ... They don't even want to hear ideas. They just want to know their book...
JAMES CARON

What's happening is that the inflation premium is being taken out of longer-dated securities.
JAMES CARON

I was kind of pumped to play today. I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing all we...
JASON CARON

I was kind of pumped to play today, ... I wasn't real aggressive, just doing what I've been doing al...
JASON CARON

It's very difficult to go that route. When I've needed help, I've had people there. Mentally, you ne...
JASON CARON

I'm trying to stick to my game plan. I've been working hard on my game and it's finally coming throu...
JASON CARON

I'd sit right here (in the media room). I know I'm going to finish first or second.
JASON CARON

You try not to think about it, but sometimes it slips into your mind.
JOSH CARON

The mice recovered a lot of their normal movement.
MARC G. CARON

A person who talks fast often says things she hasn't thought of yet.
CARON WARNER LIEBER

I think it's a slam dunk. But knock wood, you know. Everyone seems very happy, so I have every expec...
GLENN GORDON CARON

What's more fun than sitting in your living room in funny glasses?
GLENN GORDON CARON

Her character does things that are not very nice, [but] we forgive her. That's a quality that's rare...
GLENN GORDON CARON

I absolutely believed in Jake next to Patricia, and luckily they just seemed to have this terrific c...
GLENN GORDON CARON

We have a new and exciting hypothesis that involves a new system that controls movement in the absen...
MARC G. CARON

To make a living, craftiness is better than learnedness.
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

I make myself laugh at everything, in case I should have to weep
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

Where love is concerned, too much is not enough
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

It is not necessary to believe things in order to reason about them
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free...
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to dist...
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

I am quick to laugh at everything, so as not to have to cry
P.A. CARON DE BEAUMARCHAIS

When I'm 80 and sagging all over, I can tell my grandkids, 'Look, when I was a lad, 'Peo...
GERARD BUTLER

Honestly, what can really be said about 'the Jewish people' as a whole? Is it not a lamentab...
JUDITH BUTLER

I never worked less than 16-hour days on South Beach.
YANCY BUTLER

I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
YANCY BUTLER

I'll try anything once.
YANCY BUTLER

I'm open to sci-fi, but I was never a diehard fan. I have no idea why it keeps following me. I&#...
YANCY BUTLER

I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of t...
YANCY BUTLER

I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
YANCY BUTLER

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him...
YANCY BUTLER

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega,...
YANCY BUTLER

Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
YANCY BUTLER

To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
YANCY BUTLER

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio b...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
SAMUEL BUTLER

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
SAMUEL BUTLER

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

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from t...
YANCY BUTLER

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
YANCY BUTLER

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

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

I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
YANCY BUTLER

I've always played strong women who are doing their own thing.
YANCY BUTLER

Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
YANCY BUTLER

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

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
YANCY BUTLER

Women have been kicking ass for centuries.
YANCY BUTLER

People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
YANCY BUTLER

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are tell...
YANCY BUTLER

My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
YANCY BUTLER

I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
YANCY BUTLER

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.
YANCY BUTLER

I think we won't be able to understand the operations of trans-phobia, homophobia, if we don'...
JUDITH BUTLER

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or somethi...
JUDITH BUTLER

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good st...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to di...
SAMUEL BUTLER

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We c...
JUDITH BUTLER

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
FRANK BUTLER

I've had broken bones and cuts and dashes and tears from movies, but when I was five, my mom put...
GERARD BUTLER

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.
OCTAVIA BUTLER

And by the way, I wanted to point out that Kindred is not science fiction. You'll note there'...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if y...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilitie...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - eve...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's ot...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

No, I think the future of humanity will be like the past, we'll do what we've always done an...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your ow...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
OCTAVIA BUTLER

While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote th...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

A workshop is a way of renting an audience, and making sure you're communicating what you think ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some h...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Most of us don't have to worry about being shot if we poke our noses outside. So we are comforta...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Third, for people who aren't doing it already, take classes - they're worthwhile. Workshops ...
OCTAVIA BUTLER

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everyb...
GEEZER BUTLER

I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brou...
SMEDLEY BUTLER

Only if we accept the proposition that the state of Israel is the exclusive and legitimate represent...
JUDITH BUTLER

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time.
WIN BUTLER

The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anyth...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. ...
JUDITH BUTLER

I'm not big on the closet.
DAN BUTLER

I'm not a straight man, but I play one on television.
DAN BUTLER

There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so r...
DAN BUTLER

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.
DAN BUTLER

I'm an actor.
DAN BUTLER

Every retailer, when they price their goods, looks at their total cost overall. When they have costs...
DAN BUTLER

I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control o...
DAN BUTLER

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them ...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The advantage of doing one's praising to oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in t...
SAMUEL BUTLER

I went to the Bach Choir concert and heard Mozart's Requiem. I did not rise warmly to it. Then I hea...
SAMUEL BUTLER

It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of r...
SAMUEL BUTLER

The money men make lives after them.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The want of money is the root of all evil.
SAMUEL BUTLER

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure --tangible material prosperity in this world --is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER

A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to r...
SAMUEL BUTLER

In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
SAMUEL BUTLER

People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER

Life is one long process of getting tired.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
SAMUEL BUTLER

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage -- but they are also no less invalid...
SAMUEL BUTLER

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does...
SAMUEL BUTLER

When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which...
SAMUEL BUTLER

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
SAMUEL BUTLER

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will...
SAMUEL BUTLER

There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
SAMUEL BUTLER

I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging h...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
SAMUEL BUTLER

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the...
SAMUEL BUTLER

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer l...
SAMUEL BUTLER

You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be b...
SAMUEL BUTLER

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
SAMUEL BUTLER

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa...
SAMUEL BUTLER

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, ...
SAMUEL BUTLER

There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
SAMUEL BUTLER

Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.
SAMUEL BUTLER

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
SAMUEL BUTLER

He gave me an opportunity when everybody turned their back on me. He gave me a chance to come to school. He accepted me into his family. It was a great experience for me at UConn and I am grateful to him for that. I wouldn't miss this for anything.

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Caron Butler

He gave me an opportunity when everybody turned their back on me. He gave me a chance to come to school. He accepted me into his family. It was a great experience for me at UConn and I am grateful to him for that. I wouldn't miss this for anything.

Caron Butler

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