Samuel Johnson Quotes
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.Samuel Johnson
Quotes to Explore
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
Ira Sachs -
I'm not much of a jokester.
Adam Baldwin -
I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
Iris Johansen -
I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
Katharine Cornell -
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
Rachel Nichols
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In life go straight and turn right.
Salman Khan -
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
Vikas Swarup -
'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
Magnus Scheving -
Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
Nancy Kress -
I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
Patrice Leconte -
I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
Sam Walton
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
Wendy O. Williams -
My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
Vicki Lawrence -
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
Eddie Floyd -
I love badminton. That's my sport!
Olga Kurylenko -
A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
Rabih Alameddine -
Everything I publish is for my readers.
Felix Dennis
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Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.
Michel Foucault -
I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
Rachel Kushner -
'Juno' really changed things for me and I get a lot of screenplays come in now, but I like to self-generate and I like to kind of pursue my own ideas. And I think the more personal the better.
Jason Reitman -
There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.
Alan Boldun -
He's a professional. He knows a lot about the game and can give you a lot of insights. The great thing about him is that he provides a lot of detail. He never leaves anything out. After he explains something to you, you'd be an idiot to mess it up.
Braylon Edwards -
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson