Samuel Johnson Quotes

LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Samuel Johnson

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• I've got to win every race.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Win
  • Race
  • Got

• I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Life
  • Baby
  • My Life

• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Car
  • Movies

• Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Blues

• The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Success
  • Story
  • Achieve

• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  

  Ira Hayes
  • Men
  • Honor
  • Hero

• When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Person
  • Teenager
  • Only

• I come from not just a household but a country where the finesse of language, well-balanced sentence, structure, syntax, these things are driven into us, and my parents, bless them, are great custodians of the English language.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Great
  • Country
  • Parents

• The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Together
  • Suffering

• I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.

  

  Larry Charles
  • Take
  • Big
  • Risks

• I was very laced with drugs myself, but Fred seemed to be even more so than me. That might have had something to do with it. That might have had something to do with nobody wanting to play my records, too, I don't know.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Know
  • Me
  • Myself

• I was afraid of just about everything in this world, with the possible exception of my mother and I wasn't too sure about her.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • World
  • Mother
  • Possible

• I get bored of music really easily, so I always try and make music that makes sense, but then it's just a little bit wrong.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Always
  • Try

• The true poem rests between the words.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • True
  • Words

• A flowing river is an infinity of superimposed production belts.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • River

• Your father cares as little as we do. It's just that he tends to despair, while we are full of hope.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Hope
  • Father

• Not only the artist but everyone 'becomes someone else' in becoming someone. One is thought about, thus invented. Or as Steinberg put it with memorable succinctness in his Cogito drawings, 'I think, therefore Descartes is.' One creates not oneself but another. Being is in the act.

  

  Harold Rosenberg

• The 14 points for quality control apply anywhere, to small organizations as well as to large ones...:

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Small
  • Control
  • Quality

• Boston is actually the capital of the world. You didn't know that? We breed smart-ass, quippy, funny people. Not that I'm one of them. I just sorta sneaked in under the radar.

  

  John Krasinski
  • People
  • World
  • Funny

• With an inexperienced director, a lot of times the days go on to 14, 15, 16 hours. It goes horrendously overtime. And because of the lack of money, they just keep you there, regardless of the hours.

  

  William H. Macy
  • Hours
  • Directors

• Our poor country is fighting at an extraordinary hard conjuncture of an unparalleled war and internal problems such as we have never seen before, and only a strong Governmental power able to rely on the confidence of the nation can save it.

  

  Alexander Guchkov
  • Country
  • Confidence
  • Nation

• Acting is a great way to make a living, especially when I consider what my alternatives were and probably still are. I mean, you are only making movies. It is a lot less pressure than being a surgeon; although it seemed like the only other thing that I was qualified for was manual labour.

  

  James Spader
  • Great

• LEXICOGRAPHER - A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

  

  Samuel Johnson