Samuel Johnson Quotes
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
-
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it.
-
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
-
I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
-
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
-
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
-
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
-
I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.
-
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
-
I used to believe that people are only born once, but now I feel I have been reborn, like I was given a new life. I see myself as a child, full of energy and hope.
-
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
-
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
-
The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
-
It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
-
My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
-
It only took one text message to change my life. That's when I discovered my loving husband had been unfaithful. His infidelities ended our marriage.
-
I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
-
You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
-
A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.
-
It's another terrible terrorist atrocity, ... Their fight is ours, our fight is theirs.
-
My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort - and it was cute.
-
I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.
-
I started doing repertory theatre in upstate New York when I was 15, went back when I was 16, and by that time decided that I really wanted to study drama seriously and go to an acting conservatory called Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
-
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
