Boris Johnson Quotes
It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
Quotes to Explore
-
I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
-
I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
-
I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
-
I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
-
I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
-
Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
-
We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
-
Everything in nature is not just a straight up. It's an S-curve. It arises for a while until it hits some physical limitation, and then it plateaus again.
-
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
-
Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
-
If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.
-
My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
-
When we began Qualcomm, it had become quite clear that it was very important to patent new ideas.
-
I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
-
Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
-
Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
-
The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.
-
A community, once it realises that its language is in danger, can get its act together and introduce measures which can genuinely revitalise. You've seen it happen in Australia with several Aboriginal languages. And it's happening in other countries, too.
-
Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.
-
Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.
-
Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.
-
It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.
-
It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.
