Samuel Johnson Quotes

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Samuel Johnson

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• I never used to drink water. I am drinking six liters of water every day now. That's the key.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Water
  • Drinking
  • Key

• I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • Mind
  • Guy
  • Me

• When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Money
  • Done
  • Freedom

• The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Melancholy

• I can always do five, five-minute rounds, any day, even if I was drinking yesterday or doing whatever. I'm a seasoned athlete, an endurance athlete, and I'm always working out.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Athlete

• My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Father
  • Problem

• Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Greatness
  • Drinking
  • Vices

• People make the mistake of drinking the Kool-Aid, believing your own hype, letting people tell you you're this or you're that or you're too this.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Drinking

• Now don't say you can't swear off drinking; it's easy. I've done it a thousand times.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Done
  • You
  • Easy

• I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Live
  • Country
  • City

• I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Up
  • Think
  • Suffering

• It is critical that parents and other trusted adults initiate conversations with kids about underage drinking well in advance of the first time they are faced with a decision regarding alcohol.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Parents

• If they don't want to pay for it, they can stop drinking it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Drinking

• If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Cold

• To me, being grown-up meant smoking cigarettes, drinking cocktails, and dressing up in high heels and glamourous outfits.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Up
  • High
  • Drinking

• Most important, though, I had to wait until I found the perfect traveling/eating/drinking/napping companion. And I did finally find him, two years ago - my Brazilian-born, French-speaking, wine-worshipping, tripe-consuming, uncomplaining traveler of a sweetheart.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Important
  • Perfect
  • Wine

• I got invited to the Playboy Mansion with the Lonely Island guys after their first season on 'SNL,' and I sat in the corner drinking coffee and talking to Akiva Schaffer about what aspect ratio he was going to shoot 'Hot Rod' in. Like, that's what we talk about.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Coffee
  • Lonely
  • Drinking

• Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • People
  • Live
  • President

• Drinking is the soldier’s pleasure;Rich the treasure;Sweet the pleasure;Sweet is pleasure after pain.

  

  John Dryden
  • Pain
  • Sweet
  • Drinking

• Remember, "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.

  

  Irwin Corey
  • Remember
  • Drug
  • Drinking

• What will most certainly happen is that there will be very clear and full communication between the government and independents and minor parties. The precise mechanisms will evolve over time, but we certainly intend to keep the minor parties and the independents very much in the loop. We have to if we want our legislative agenda to have a reasonable chance of success and that's what we intend to do.

  

  Tony Abbott
  • Government
  • Communication
  • Agenda

• You have to be forward-moving and able to balance a lot of things at the same time. I attribute a lot of that to the Marine Corps and Juilliard both.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Balance

• This medical device gives doctors a new option for treating twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. It can help prolong the mother's pregnancy and improve the odds of survival, with reduced complications, for one or both twins.

  

  Daniel Schultz
  • Helping
  • Survival
  • Medical

• Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Drinking
  • Melancholy
  • Indeed