Boris Johnson Quotes

I would like to thank first the vast multitudes who voted against me - and I have met quite a few in the last nine months, not all of them entirely polite.

Boris Johnson

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Hero
  • Brave

• Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Up
  • Money
  • Possibilities

• I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'

  

  Ralph Brown
  • People
  • Man
  • Star

• Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Together

• Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Value

• I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Think
  • Brand
  • Luxury

• I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Knowledge
  • Know
  • Action

• An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • You
  • Become
  • Interview

• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• I have this wonderful personal chef who sources and stocks all my organic produce and I basically live on five smoothies a day. I'm totally vegan. I blend this green concoction with kale, cucumber, broccoli, string beans, avocado. My protein comes from protein powder. There is absolutely no milk, butter, cheese.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Live
  • Day
  • Green

• Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Real
  • Genius
  • Simplicity

• If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.

  

  Gary Busey
  • You
  • Short
  • Take

• I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Business
  • Think
  • Now

• On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Know
  • Opinion
  • Smart

• The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• I definitely I prefer to sing in the car. I don't sing in the shower, maybe its because that's the one time I don't need to talk to anyone so I should just shut up, otherwise I'm just, you know, jibber jabber.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Know

• Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Life
  • Time
  • Weep

• He owned a service station, and I used to go there and piddle around - pump some gas, get in the way.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Way
  • Service
  • Used

• I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.

  

  Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Night

• It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more than anything (especially in winter) are the very things that cause the most insane weight gain - mounds of fluffy mashed potato, hot, thickly buttered toast, huge, steaming bowls of pasta, great big... actually, I'll stop there.

  

  John Niven
  • Great
  • Nature
  • Food

• She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Real
  • Tomorrow
  • Knew

• If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

  

  Rich Mullins
  • Life
  • Ambition
  • Legacy

• Nation states are archaic leftovers from when each man feared the tribe over the hill, an attitude we can’t afford anymore.

  

  David Brin
  • Attitude

• I would like to thank first the vast multitudes who voted against me - and I have met quite a few in the last nine months, not all of them entirely polite.

  

  Boris Johnson