James Boswell Quotes

Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

James Boswell

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• Marriage is a commitment for life. It is a permanent, lifelong relationship.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was propitious.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Time
  • Done
  • Thought

• I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Wish
  • Paint
  • I Wish

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Working
  • Hard
  • Opportunities

• I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.

  

  Laura Leighton
  • Think
  • Pretty
  • Media

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Time
  • Exit
  • Kicked

• I remember once doing a gig in Ireland, and there was a woman jumping around and screaming, 'I don't know what this is but I love it!' I thought that was a nice compliment.

  

  Imelda May
  • Remember
  • Know
  • Nice

• Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Energy
  • Passion
  • Secret

• All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Gold
  • Nothing
  • Loser

• I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Unique

• I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Community

• Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • World
  • Universe

• I was thinking 'Love Story', obviously, was a romantic film of that time.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Story

• You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Music
  • You
  • Brothers

• Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Action
  • Enemy
  • Coincidence

• I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.

  

  Barbara Bush

• It's very tough for a woman in the music business, and he really was such a motivator from the beginning, when I was super-shy, and he saw a lot in me on a personal level that he knew could carry through on the stage.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Music
  • Business
  • Beginning

• I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Time
  • Know
  • Need

• My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

  

  John H. Johnson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• I was always taught that Latin, Caribbean people were cousins to me, as well as blues was a cousin to me, as well as Africans were direct relatives to me. It was all a part of my language.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Me
  • Latin

• I'm a traditionalist. I'm a Latin mass Catholic, and I hold to traditional views of responsibility.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Responsibility
  • Catholic
  • Latin

• Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.

  

  James Boswell
  • Latin
  • Inscription
  • Dr Johnson