James Boswell Quotes

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

James Boswell

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Attention

• Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Men
  • War
  • Nature

• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Good
  • Different
  • Thinking

• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Good
  • Work
  • Yourself

• I try to do things that make me feel good. I go to yoga classes, drink a lot of water, eat healthily and keep things like alcohol and coffee to weekends. I don't overdo anything.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Good
  • Water
  • Yoga

• I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Career

• One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• A family may be ruined by extravagance, but it is not always through ruin that the representatives in a family are to be found in humble or comparatively humble circumstances, but that the junior members of a gentle family went into trade.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Family
  • May
  • Humble

• Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.

  

  Yaya Han
  • May
  • Vision
  • Look

• While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Feeling

• A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • People
  • May
  • Job

• Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Every idea is an incitement... eloquence may set fire to reason.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • May
  • Fire
  • Idea

• I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Good
  • Art
  • Political

• So many girls only care about guys and looking good all the time.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Time
  • Good
  • Care

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Bad
  • Change

• Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.

  

  Jack Zipes
  • Good
  • First
  • Good Deal

• Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.

  

  John Sayles
  • Good
  • Money
  • Movie

• Anno 1670, not far from Cyrencester, was an Apparition: Being demanded, whether a good Spirit, or a bad?  returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious Perfume and most melodious Twang. Mr. W. Lilly believes it was a Farie.

  

  John Aubrey
  • Good
  • Bad

• I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Family
  • Friends

• After my first video, I went out and had chicken noodle soup with my sister and manager. We were like, 'How rock n' roll are we? Celebrating the first video with chicken soup.'

  

  Fleur East
  • Rock
  • Sister
  • Soup

• Let's set the record straight. Money is important! To say that it's not as important as any other things in life is ludicrous. What's more important, your arm or your leg? Could it be that both are important?

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

  

  James Boswell
  • Good
  • May
  • Innocent